10-116 Garand Picture of the Day

Troops on parade just before Eisenhower's D-Day invasion of Normandy during WWII.
Location: United Kingdom
Date taken: 1944
https://www.milsurps.com/images/impo...ab_large-1.jpg

You had a good home but you left / You're right
You had a good home but you left / You're right
Jody was there when you left / You're right
Your baby was there when you left / You're right
Sound off! / 1,2
Sound off! / 3,4
Cadence count! / 1,2,3,4,1,2...3,4!


They signed you up for the length of the war /

I've never had it so good before
The best you'll get in a biv-ou-ac /
Is a whiff of cologne from a passing WAC
Sound off! / 1,2
Sound off! / 3,4
Cadence count! / 1,2,3,4,1,2...3,4!

There ain't no use in going back /

Jody's livin' it up in the shack
Jody's got somethin' you ain't got /
It's been so long I almost forgot
Sound off! / 1,2
Sound off! / 3,4
Cadence count! / 1,2,3,4,1,2...3,4!

Your baby was lonely, as lonely could be /

Til Jody provided the company
Ain't it great to have a pal /

Who works so hard just to keep up morale
Sound off! / 1,2
Sound off! / 3,4
Cadence count! / 1,2,3,4,1,2...3,4!


You ain't got nothin' to worry about /

He'll keep her happy until I get out
An' you won't get home til the end of the war /
In nineteen hundred and seventy four
Sound off! / 1,2
Sound off! / 3,4
Cadence count! / 1,2,3,4,1,2...3,4!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=nDQvYE8sbc8

If I die in a combat zone
Wrap me up and send me home
Pin my wings upon my chest
Tell my mom I done my best

When you bury don't bury me deep
Two crossed rifles at my feet
Clip of ammo in my hand
Gonna shoot my way to the Promised Land!

Your mother was there when you left... You're right!
Your father was there when you left... You're right!
Your sister was there when you left... You're right!
Your brother was there when you left... You're right!
The police were there when you left... You're right!
And that's the reason you left... YOU'RE RIGHT!!!
Sound off! 1-2
Sound off! 3-4
Sound off 1-2-3-4, 1-2, 3-4!

Thanks Bob, almost forgott that one!!.....Frank

If I die in a combat zone
Don't try to send my body home
Just pin my wings upon my chest
And bury me in the leaning rest!
:)

Ain't no use in feeling blue
Jody's in the Army too.


Q. I was under the impression that Jody was from the Korean Conflict*??


*Let's not get started on the politicians reluctance to call a war a war and issue a declaration. Not a happy turn of events.

Q. I was under the impression that Jody was from the Korean Conflict*??

from 1949 move Battle Ground

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature...&v=nDQvYE8sbc8


"Jody calls"In the United States, what are now known as cadences were called jody calls or jody (also jodie) from a recurring character, a civilian named "Jody" whose luxurious lifestyle is contrasted with military deprivations in a number of traditional calls. The mythical Jody refers to a civilian who remains at home instead of joining the military service. Jody is often presumed to be medically unfit for service, a 4F in World War II parlance. Jody also lacks the desirable attributes of military men. He is neither brave nor squared-away. Jody calls often make points with ironic humor. Jody will take advantage of your girlfriend in your absence. Jody stays at home, drives the soldier's car, and gets the soldier's sweetheart (often called "Susie") while the soldier is in boot camp or in country. (Serendipitously, the name works just as well for female soldiers.)

The name derives from a stock character in African-American oral traditions, "Joe the Grinder,"[6] who is also prominent in Merle Haggard's song "The Old Man of the Mountain."[7] The character's name has been transcribed as "Joady," "Jody," "Jodie," "Joe D.", or even "Joe the ____" (in dialect, "Joe de ____") with Joe then identified by occupation. He was a stock anti-hero who maliciously took advantage of another man's absence. Enlisted African-American soldiers incorporated this character into cadence songs during the Second World War.

Thanks for the interesting etamology of "Joe de". I love that sort of thing.

That it was used in "Battle Ground" explains why I associated it with Korea. "Battle Ground" is the first war movie I can remember going to with my Dad, and it was just before Korea broke out. I was 7 at the time so I really did not understand what was going on except that it was somehow different than WWII, mostly because Dad did not have to go away. Dad went into the Army in 1942 just after I was born and was only someone Mom talked about in my earliest memories.