15:49 2008/02/28 Blood on the Risers (Gory Gory What a Hell of a Way to Die)

バンドオブブラザースで兵隊達が歌っていた歌。
リパブリック賛歌の替え歌のようです。mebiです。

1.
He was just a rookie trooper
and he surely shook with fright.
He checked off his equipment
and made sure his pack was tight.
He had to sit and listen
to those awful engines roar.
"You ain't gonna jump no more!"

Refrain:
Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die.
Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die.
Gory, gory, what a hell of way to die.
And he ain't gonna jump no more!

2.
"Is everybody happy?"
cried the sergeant, looking up
Our hero feebly answered,
"Yes" and then they stood him up
He leaped into the icy blast,
his static line unhooked
And he ain't gonna jump no more!
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3.
He counted long, he counted loud,
he waited for the shock
He felt the wind, he felt the cold,
he felt the awful drop
The silk from reserve spilled out
and wrapped around his legs
And he ain't gonna jump no more!
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4.
The risers wrapped around his neck,
connectors cracked his dome
Suspension lines were snarled and tied
in knots around his skinny bones
The canopy became his shroud,
he hurled to the ground
And he ain't gonna jump no more!
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5.
The days he lived and loved
and laughed kept running through his mind
He thought about the girl back home
the one he left behind
He thought about the medics
and he wandered what they would find
And he ain't gonna jump no more!
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6.
The ambulance was on the spot,
the jeeps were running wild
The Medics jumped and screamed with glee,
rolled up their sleeves and smiled
For it had been a week or more
since the last chute had failed
And he ain't gonna jump no more!
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7.
He hit the ground, the sound was "SPLAT,"
the blood went spurting high
His buddies all were heard to say
"What a helluva way to die!"
He lay there rolling 'round
in the welter of his gore
And he ain't gonna jump no more!
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8. There was blood upon the risers,
there were brains upon the chute,
Intestines were a-dangling
from his paratrooper suit
The medics picked him up
and poured him gently from his boots
And he ain't gonna jump no more!
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