BowbBrown
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I am interested in two songs. The first is a song about the Army Rangers I copied down these bits of the lyrics to the best of my ability, but I can't guarantee that I got them down absolutely correctly or that you might be familiar with lyrics to a slightly different version:

Hey young fool who you talking to I'm an RI at the ranger school

Rock steady, roll ready I'm going to the ranger school
and
the ranger school is for the young and the bold

The song is humorou

The other song has the lyrics "To the sound of the cold atomic surf" and it was to a rock beat or maybe even in the style of surfing songs. My father was slated to take part in the planned invasion of Japan. Clever people in the military had thought it would be to use the additional five atomic bombs they thought they'd have after the two they dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to destroy Japanese beach defenses, Hence "To the sound of the cold atomic surf"

I heard the Army Rangers folk song two days ago. The song with "the cold atomic surf must have been on the radio in the 70;s when I heard it, but people tell me that I have a really good memory for things like that which catch my attention, and I remember thinking it was a very interesting line so I don't think I imagined it changed the words.

If anyone can place one or both of these it would really make my day. In any event, I hope readers find thema musing. more »