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I Wish I Was a Blue Job Lyrics by John Edmond

TROOPIESONGS - complete 50th Anniversary Edition

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Sometimes I wish I was a Blue Job, up in the sky.
I wouldn't have to walk if I could fly.
But, I'll be a Brown Job until I die.
With ten years to go in the RLI.
The Sergeant that signed me up,
had a face like the back of a truck.
A tatoo on each knee,
and legs like a Mugla tree.
And the Medic that did my test,
he left me standing in my vest,
and then when I didn't see,
He stamped me with a TAP.
Sometimes I wish I was a Blue Job, up in the sky.
I wouldn't have to walk if I could fly.
But, I'll be a Brown Job until I die.
With ten years to go in the RLI.
Down at the Quartermasters store
I said I'd take size four,
They gave me size 3 for sports,
It was a pair of open neck shorts.
I was in the cookhouse queue,
Waiting for my beans and stew.
The cook just winks at me,
And slips the blue stone in my tea.
Sometimes I wish I was a Blue Job, up in the sky.
I wouldn't have to walk if I could fly.
But, I'll be a Brown Job until I die.
With ten years to go in the RLI.
Standing on parade, never get a bit of shade,
out in the blazing sun,
with the temperature A-hundred and one.
And you know there's nothing worse,
then doing the assault course,
when the sweat is running free,
and it smells like Chiboolie.
Sometimes I wish I was a Blue Job, up in the sky.
I wouldn't have to walk if I could fly.
But, I'll be a Brown Job until I die.
With ten years to go in the RLI.
We had a contact the other day
But the ter's all ran away
we were firing the M.A.G.
from the hip like Audie Murphy
so if i go up in a puff of smoke
its better then being a slope,
or a fuzz from the BSAP.
I'd very much rather be me.
Sometimes I wish I was a Blue Job, up in the sky.
I wouldn't have to walk if I could fly.
But, I'll be a Brown Job until I die.
With ten years to go in the RLI.
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