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"The Army Goes Rolling Along" is the official song of the United States Army [1] and is typically called "The Army Song". It is adapted from an earlier work from 1908 entitled "The Caissons Go Rolling Along", which was in turn incorporated into John Philip Sousa's "U.S. Field Artillery March" in 1917.
And the Caissons go rolling along. Then it's Heigh! Heigh! Hee! In the field artillery, Shout out your numbers loud and strong, For where'er you go, You will always know That the Caissons go rolling along. In the storm, in the night, Action left or action right See those Caissons go rolling along Limber front, limber rear, Prepare to mount your ...
The song "The Caissons Go Rolling Along" refers to these; the version adopted as the U.S. Army's official song has, among other changes, replaced the word caissons with Army. Caissons are used for burials at Arlington National Cemetery and for state funerals for United States government dignitaries including the President of the United States ...
"Captain Jack" (Army cadence) [9] "Yellow Ribbon" (Army cadence) [9] As soon as 1952, the U.S. Army adopted "The Army Goes Rolling Along" as its service theme song, with the lyric "count off the cadence loud and strong" a reference to Duckworth's cadence. Its melody and lyrics derive from the traditional "When the Caissons Go Rolling Along".
The Army hired highly qualified experts for advice that ranged from finding the right horses for caisson duty to designing the curriculum for soldiers who care and ride them.
Song sheet crediting Gruber for "The Caissons Go Rolling Along." Edmund L. Gruber was one of the most popular artillerymen of his time and was a noted Army polo team champion, but he would make his enduring mark with music. In 1908 he wrote the 5th Artillery Regimental song, titled "The Caissons Go Rolling Along."
Dr. James Bender, a former Army psychologist who spent a year in combat in Iraq with a cavalry brigade, saw many cases of moral injury among soldiers. Some, he said, “felt they didn’t perform the way they should. Bullets start flying and they duck and hide rather than returning fire – that happens a lot more than anyone cares to admit.”
The phrase, "let's roll" has been used as early as 1908 in the cadence song now called "The Army Goes Rolling Along", which likely extended into tank usage. "The Roads Must Roll", a science fiction story written in 1940 by Robert A. Heinlein, mentions a re-worded version of "The Roll of the Caissons" called "Road Songs of the Transport Cadets".