Who makes up those songs that soldiers sing while running or training – and are they only for films or do the soldiers really do that in real life?
Nitro Duck is a son of a Bit$# Wrecked his train in a w#ore house ditch. Lined a 100 women up against the wall Made a 3 dollar bet he could #$%^ ’em all @#$%^& 98 till his…… Never mind… It just gets nastier from there. Often cadence songs are traditional in the sense that they are handed down. I ran to the one above, and so did my father. (any three syllable name can be inserted). Cadence when running forces you hold air in your lungs (because you are inhaling deeply to yell, and you have to control the exit of the air to keep the song going). It also makes the run less boring. We used to do 10 to 15 mile beach runs, and if we were in trouble, we would not be allowed to sing cadence — It was miserable when that happened. I can’t say with authority that all countries use singing cadence, but I have heard it from all of the troops of other countries that I have served with. Brits, Australians, Phillipes, Polish, Panamanian, Liberian, Nicaraguans all used occasional cadence songs.
