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First to fight for right and freedom and to keep our honor true and clean / Admiration of the Nation / Semper Fi / We’re the strongest ever seen / Honor guides our every step / Ooh Rah! Ooh Rah! / Courage grants us no regrets / Ooh Rah! Ooh Rah! / In many a strife we fought for life and never lost our nerve / Committed to what makes us free / The Few and the Proud / If the Army and the Navy ever look on Heaven’s scenes / They will find the streets are guarded by United States Marines / Honor guides our every step / Ooh Rah! Ooh Rah! / Courage grants us no regrets / Ooh Rah! Ooh Rah! / In many a strife we fought for life and never lost our nerve / Committed to what makes us free / The Few and the Proud
*Lyrics taken in part from the Marine Corps Hymn
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Oops (live)
00:22
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Live Free Or Die (live)
02:27
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We pledge our lives / We pledge our fortunes / We pledge our sacred honor / In Her defense, so help us God / Supporting our mighty Constitution / Defending our Bill of Rights / Don’t tread on us /
We’ll live free or die
*Lyrics taken in part from the Declaration of Independence. Soundclip sample taken from the public domain Department of Defense video “Preamble to Peace” (1957)
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First To Fight
01:53
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First to enter
Last to leave
No greater weapon than a U.S. Marine
Semper Fi
The few and the proud
First to fight
Ooh Rah!
Guadalcanal, Okinawa, Iwo Jima, Tarawa, Midway, Seoul, Peleliu, Bougainville, Guam, Inchon, Chosin, Belleau Wood, Baghdad
Ready yesterday
Ready today
Ready tomorrow
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My Rifle And I (live)
00:57
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This is my rifle / There are many like it but this one is mine / Without me my rifle is useless / Without my rifle I am useless / This is my rifle / There are many like it but this one is mine / We are the defenders of my country / We are the masters of my enemy / We are the saviors of my life /
My rifle and I
*Lyrics taken in part from the Rifleman’s Creed.
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1918, in Belleau Wood / Marines arrive opposite of where Germans stood / Ammunition is lacking, grab bayonets / We’ll win this thing with our bare hands / Relentless Leathernecks / Endlessly shelled and gassed, twenty days of hell / No more food is coming as far as we can tell / Ammunition is lacking, grab bayonets / We’ll win this thing with our bare hands / Relentless Leathernecks / Pinned down by machine gun fire, mass casualties / “For Christ’s sake c’mon, do you want to live forever!?” / Ammunition is lacking, grab bayonets / We’ll win this thing with our damn hands / Relentless Leathernecks
*Quote, or a variant thereof, attributed to Marine Corps Sergeant Major Dan Daly (1873-1937)
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Separatist (live)
03:50
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All you politicians, you’re really all the same
Special-interest slavery but under different names
Promising the world and more just to get elected
Hope? Change? Ha! You all make me laugh!
Preacher on the TV screen whisper in their ears
Toll-free number at the bottom, the answer to their tears
Give a lot of money just to get God’s time?
You’re a liar and a thief, and you make me laugh!
You’ve made a lot of films, you’ve made a lot of money
Just because they laugh at you doesn’t mean you’re funny
So now you think you’re qualified to tell us how to think?
Or how to vote or how to look? You all make me laugh!
Belittle the religious, scoff at those with faith
Attack the mosque, the synagogue, the church and those who pray
Intolerance you claim to hate but let me introduce you
Pot, meet kettle. You all make me laugh!
Hollywood celebrity in a third-world country
Carefully choreographed acts of compassion I see
Hug a child tight when the camera’s just right
Invite the media, just as planned: you’re on the news tonight
Warn now all the masses about some global warming
Then hop onto your private jet, actions non-conforming
Preach to congregations about a holy life
Then home you go to beat your kids an cheat on your wife
Rage Against the Machine makes a ton of money
For being Communist I find that rather funny
And lastly to all you terrorists around the world
You’re no martyrs! You’re just full of crap!
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Final Hour (live)
02:57
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In the garden He fell to His knees / The time had come and He knew a sacrifice just had to be paid for you and me / It's the final hour before the cross and the victory / His soul was so grieved He could hardly stand the pain / As He prayed to the Father / “Please take this cup from me” / It's the final hour before the cross and the victory / His sweat became like drops of blood falling to the ground / Cause deep inside He knew He had to lay his body down / So a cross lay before Him / There was no other way to save the world from its sin / A sacrifice just had to be paid / It’s the final hour / Before the cross and the victory
*Music by Altar Boys and lyrics by Mike Stand
© 1986 Broken Songs. Used under license by Meis Music Group, LLC
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Administrations: they come and go
Our Presidents: some high, some low
The government doesn't always show the people which way to go
They put the noose around our throat
Take our freedoms with a single vote
To secure our rights we'll swear this oath
Will we cease to fight for the Republic? Hell no!
For my God
For my family
For my country
What matters most!
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