give a bean = pay any attention?

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2) a fancy pants Marine = ? a Marine always wears fancy pants?
3) my old ODs =? What is OD?
4) a dog faced soldier = a minor soldier?
5) okayeee =okay, eeeeeee...?

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I wouldn't give a bean
To be a fancy pants Marine
I'd rather be a dog faced soldier like I am.
I wouldn't trade my old ODs
For all the Navy's dungarees
I'm just a fighting son of Uncle Sam.

On all the posters that I read
It says: "The Army builds men"
So they're tearing me down
To build me over again.

I'm just a dog faced soldier
With a rifle on my shoulder
And I eat a Kraut for breakfast every day.
So feed me ammunition,
Keep me in the 3rd Division,
Your dog face soldier boy's Okayeee.

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@oristarA,

Well, let it rise again, because I'm just a dog faced soldier.

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@oristarA,

Couldn't give a bean....I don't care about it, couldn't care less, it is of no value or importance to me

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

Couldn't give a bean....I don't care about it, couldn't care less, it is of no value or importance to me

I got it right at the beginning!

Thank you.

In "my old ODs," What is OD?

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@oristarA,

2. Marines are "fancy-pants" because they are seen as of higher status than ordinary infantry. Fancy-pants and fancy-schmancy can mean fancy clothes, but here it means they think themselves better.

3. I don't know what OD stands for here, but he means his uniform.

4. American infantry soldiers are known as dog-faces. I don't know why, but when I was searching for the reason, I came upon "dog-face" as an expression used to describe the expressionless faces assumed by prisoners. Not sure if the two are connected...but I guess the army is a lot like prison in terms of obedience to authority and discipline and not wanting to draw the attention of authority to yourself.

5. Yes...pretty much.

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@dlowan,

dlowan wrote:

2. Marines are "fancy-pants" because they are seen as of higher status than ordinary infantry. Fancy-pants and fancy-schmancy can mean fancy clothes, but here it means they think themselves better.

3. I don't know what OD stands for here, but he means his uniform.

4. American infantry soldiers are known as dog-faces. I don't know why, but when I was searching for the reason, I came upon "dog-face" as an expression used to describe the expressionless faces assumed by prisoners. Not sure if the two are connected...but I guess the army is a lot like prison in terms of obedience to authority and discipline and not wanting to draw the attention of authority to yourself.

5. Yes...pretty much.

Useful.

Thanks a lot.

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Who would like to tell what OD stands for?

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give a bean = pay any attention?

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