The Ballad of the Green Berets (American English Lyrics)

"The Ballad of the Green Berets" is a patriotic song in the ballad style about the United States Army Special Forces. It is one of the few popular songs of the Vietnam War years to cast the military in a positive light.

English(USA) Lyrics:

Fighting soldiers from the sky
Fearless men who jump and die
Men who mean just what they say
The brave men of the Green Beret.

Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America's best
One hundred men will test today
But only three win the Green Beret.

Trained to live off nature's land
Trained in combat, hand to hand
Men who fight by night and day
Courage take from the Green Beret.

Silver wings upon their chest
These are men, America's best
One hundred men will test today
But only three win the Green Beret.

Back at home a young wife waits
Her Green Beret has met his fate
He has died for those oppressed
Leaving her his last request:

Put silver wings on my son's chest
Make him one of America's best
He'll be a man they'll test one day
Have him win the Green Beret!

[MichaelWhite-cxho]

Beautiful video along with the song and lyrics. Thank you very much! I grew up in 1962 hearing the song very often. I just left the company of a neighbor, Alexander H Trotter, who served as a Flight Operations Specialist with the 281st Attack Helicopter Company as part of the Special Forces Fifth Operations Group in Vietnam. God bless him and all young men like him that fought and died so that he and you and they and them could enjoy the freedoms that we now take for granted and that fools like Joe Biden piss away.

[stounypugz]

A great song for fallen american soldiers