I wouldn't give a bean
to be a fancy-pants Marine,
I'd rather be a dogface soldier like I am.
I wouldn't trade my old O.D.'s
for all the Navy's dungarees
for I'm the walking pride of Uncle Sam;
on all the posters that I read it says
be all that you can, So they're tearing me down to build me over again.
I'm just a dogface soldier
with a rifle on my shoulder
and I eat raw meat for breakfast every day.
So feed me ammunition,
keep me in the Third Division,
your dog-faced soldier's a-okay.