Go to your left your right, your left! <br />Company, one two, Halt! <br />Right-Face! Atten-Shun! <br />Present - Arms! <br />Your right arm level with the ground, <br />And your finger tips are straight. <br />Your thumb is tucked in smartly <br />Taps plays as it’s getting late. <br />No one dares to say a word <br />As the flag lowers to the ground. <br />Four soldiers standing at the base <br />As building one is coming down. <br />The flag will never touch the grass <br />For the General will explode. <br />There is a story behind it, <br />But you are never told. <br /> <br />Order-Arms! Left-Face! <br />Company- Forward-March! <br />Hey little soldier where would you be, <br />If Uncle Sam hadn’t taken you <br />And sent you here to me? <br />If you try to run and go to town, <br />We will find you and <br />Knock you to the ground! <br />There’s only two ways for a soldier to quit. <br />One is get killed and the other gets a whip! <br />Company-Double time-March! <br />One two three four, I love the Marine Corps! <br />Go left oh left, left right left! <br />Company-Halt! - Stand at-Ease! <br />At Ease! -Fall out! <br /> <br />If today was great fun for you, <br />Just wait for tomorrow <br />It’s coming quickly too! <br />You wake in your foxhole <br />And what do you hear <br />But the return of tracer rounds <br />Zipping by your ear! <br />One round in seven with <br />White phosphorous inside. <br />Will tell if someone’s shooting straight <br />When it hits you in your eye! <br />Keep your head low boys, <br />It’s now you finally see <br />That flag that can’t hit the grass <br />Was a substitute for thee. <br />For if you fall down <br />We will lift you back I say <br />By the best soldiers in the world, <br />God Bless The USA!<br /><br />Robert Edgar Burns<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/if-you-fall-down/
