Ballad Of The Green Berets Song Lyrics and Chords by Johnny Paycheck
Ballad Of The Green Berets
Recorded by Johnny Paycheck
Written by Robin Moore and Barry Sadler
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Fighting soldiers
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from the
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Fearless men who jump and
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die
Men who
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mean just what they
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say
The brave
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men of the Green Be
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rets
Silver wings up
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on their
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chest
These are
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men America's
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best
One hundred
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men we'll test to
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day
But only
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three win the Green Be
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Trained to live
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off nature's
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land
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Trained in combat hand to
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hand
Men who
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fight by night and
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day
Courage
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deep from the Green Be
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rets
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Back at home a
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young wife
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waits
Her Green
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Beret has met his
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fate
He has
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died for those op
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pressed
Leaving
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her this last re
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quest
Put silver wings
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on my son's
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chest
Make him
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one of America's
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best
He'll be a
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man they'll test one
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day
Have him
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win the Green Be
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ret
FAQ
Who sang the the song Ballad Of The Green Berets?
- The song Ballad Of The Green Berets was sang by Johnny Paycheck.
Who is Johnny Paycheck?
- Johnny Paycheck (born Donald Eugene Lytle May 31, 1938 - February 19, 2003) was an American country music singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and Grand Ole Opry member notable for recording the David Allan Coe song "Take This Job and Shove It". He achieved his greatest success in the 1970s as a force in country music's "outlaw movement" popularized by artists Hank Williams Jr., Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, and Merle Haggard. In the 1980s, his music career slowed due to drug, alcohol and legal problems. He served a prison sentence in the early 1990s and his declining health effectively ended his career in early 2000. In 1980, Paycheck appeared on the PBS music program Austin City Limits (season 5).
