Wednesday, November 15, 2006
Ballad of the Green Berets
I was practicing my whistle the other night, and this song just sort of popped into my head. I was thinking, this would be a great song to play on the whistle. Now I've added it to my growing list of "Damn hard to find" songs. It's not that the song itself is hard to find, a search will bring up pages and pages of Lyrics and Midi files. It's finding the sheet music for it that is proving tough. I've managed to locate it with guitar cords, but being pretty much musically handicaped, I've not tried rewritting that.
For anyone that remembers this song and would like the lyrics here they are:
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Ballad of the Green Berets
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.
Chorus:
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 picked from the Green Beret.
Chorus:
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.
Last Chorus:
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.
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If I ever get some sheet music for this for the whistle, I'll see about making it available. I have a feeling this is one of those songs that Copy Rights are a big issue.
EDIT UPDATE__
As promised here is the sheet music.
Ballad of the Green Berets. This was done for me by a very generous friend. Thank you so much.
Have fun and Be Safe,
Dae
For anyone that remembers this song and would like the lyrics here they are:
===================================================
Ballad of the Green Berets
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.
Chorus:
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 picked from the Green Beret.
Chorus:
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.
Last Chorus:
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.
==================================
If I ever get some sheet music for this for the whistle, I'll see about making it available. I have a feeling this is one of those songs that Copy Rights are a big issue.
EDIT UPDATE__
As promised here is the sheet music.
Ballad of the Green Berets. This was done for me by a very generous friend. Thank you so much.
Have fun and Be Safe,
Dae
# posted by Daeoin Arlson @ 8:07 AM 
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Hi Daeoin...
forget the sheetmusic thing. Delete and burn any sheet music you have...lol. The most important in irish and tin whistle music is learning by ear. Thats how generations of irish musicians got taught. By ear. Do u remember any Lullabys that some one sang to you when u were a little kid? It is in your head forever. Listen to ONE irishtune or what ever only 15 minutes EVERY day and u will have the tune for ever in your head after 2 weeks. I promise! If you have it in your head the fingers will do the rest on the whistle when you get the feeling to it. Forget Sheetmusic. You can look up sheetmusic for variations of a piece of music but first of this let your fingers do the work on the instrument. Sheetmusic to me was always dead matter. The Life of a tune is always coming out of your heart. Dont be afraid to miss a note. Keep in mind. This is your music and its you and you can improvise as many as you like. Dont stick to sheetmusic be unique!
Your friend
Ferris
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forget the sheetmusic thing. Delete and burn any sheet music you have...lol. The most important in irish and tin whistle music is learning by ear. Thats how generations of irish musicians got taught. By ear. Do u remember any Lullabys that some one sang to you when u were a little kid? It is in your head forever. Listen to ONE irishtune or what ever only 15 minutes EVERY day and u will have the tune for ever in your head after 2 weeks. I promise! If you have it in your head the fingers will do the rest on the whistle when you get the feeling to it. Forget Sheetmusic. You can look up sheetmusic for variations of a piece of music but first of this let your fingers do the work on the instrument. Sheetmusic to me was always dead matter. The Life of a tune is always coming out of your heart. Dont be afraid to miss a note. Keep in mind. This is your music and its you and you can improvise as many as you like. Dont stick to sheetmusic be unique!
Your friend
Ferris
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