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8	In the military, especially during a long march or run, the SergeantRock will lead a song called a cadence call, military cadence, or jody song to keep his subordinates' spirits up as they train, march, or work around their base or encampment. The songs cover a variety of topics, including the civilian at home who's sleeping with your significant other (i.e. Jody), the amount of badass your service or unit has compared to the other services or units, the hazards unique to your particular unit or service, your own vulgar and violent tendencies, et cetera.
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10	Although many of the songs are [[CallAndResponseSong call-and-response]], not all of them are. However, they are always sung to the rhythm of the task at hand.
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13	!!Examples:
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17	[[folder:Advertisement]]
18	* Ads for ''Frosted Flakes'' cereal over the past few years have adopted one of these as their theme. "We are tigers..." Taken from the Princeton U fight chant.
19	* The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0l7qanI9DOw commercial]] for ''[[VideoGame/NintendoWars Famicom Wars]]'' has soldiers chanting a cadence which begins, "''Famicom Wars'' o shitteru kai?" [[labelnote:Translation]]"Do you know about ''Famicom Wars''?"[[/labelnote]]
20	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUEdM4ejkaY This]] 1980s ad for Marmite.
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23	[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
24	* In a bit of CulturalCrossReference, the Ground Forces trainees in ''Franchise/LyricalNanoha'' are shown using the "If I die in the combat zone" cadence of ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' [[AllThereInTheManual in the manga set before the third season]].
25	* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', Pip and his Wild Geese sing (in the English translation, at least) a real-world obscene cadence call about "Eskimo p***y". Seras's somewhat disproportionate objections to this have been seen as {{Foreshadowing}} to later revelations of her traumatic past.
26	* ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'': Yukari and Erwin sing an old Japanese marching song when walking the long way around to spy on Pravda, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yuki_no_Shingun "The Snowy March" ("Yuki no Shingun")]]. It creates something of a dissonant scene because while Yukari and Erwin are having fun and cheerily singing, the song's lyrics are rather depressing (so depressing that the song was banned by the Japanese army in WWII).
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29	[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
30	* In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'', Mike uses the melody while training Sulley for scaring.
31	-->I don't know, but it's been said\
32	I love scaring kids in bed!
33	* ''WesternAnimation/IceAge1''
34	-->I don't know, but I've been told\
35	End of the world be mighty cold
36	* During one of the training scenes in ''WesternAnimation/SpaceChimps'', Titan tries to start off a round, but Ham is having none of it:
37	-->'''Titan:''' I am Titan, I am strong!
38	-->'''Ham:''' No one wants to sing along!
39	* "Colonel Hathi's March" from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/TheJungleBook1967''. It's sung by the Elephant Patrol whenever they make their entrance about twice in the film (The first time is when Mowgli and Bagheera accidentally run into them while attempting to get the former back to the "Man-village", and the second is when Bagheera asks them to help him and Baloo find Mowgli before Shere Khan does).
40	-->Hup, two, three, four\
41	Keep it up, two, three, four\
42	Hup, two, three, four\
43	Keep it up, two, three four\
44	Company, sound off!\
45	Oh, the aim of our patrol,\
46	Is a question rather droll\
47	For to march and drill\
48	Over field and hill (trumpets)\
49	Is a military goal!\
50	Is a military goal!\
51	Hup, two, three, four\
52	Dress it up, two, three, four\
53	By the ranks or single file,\
54	Over every jungle mile\
55	Oh, we stamp and crush\
56	Through the underbrush (trumpets)\
57	In a military style!\
58	In a military style!
59	** There's also the reprise:
60	-->Oh, we march from here to there\
61	And it doesn't matter where\
62	Well, you can hear us push\
63	Through the deepest bush\
64	Hup, two, three, four!\
65	With a military air!\
66	With a military air! (trumpets)\
67	We're a crackerjack brigade\
68	In a pachyderm parade\
69	But we'd rather stroll\
70	To a waterhole\
71	Hup, two, three, four!\
72	For a furlough in the shade!\
73	For a furlough in the shade!
74	* The orcs in ''WesternAnimation/TheReturnOfTheKing'' get a VillainSong like this. ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VoAfb3f04mo Where there's a whip, there's a way!]]''
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77	[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
78	* ''Film/Battleground1949''. When Holley first sees his new unit, the men are exercising to a jody call with Sergeant Kinnie leading. At the very end of the movie, Kinnie and the platoon's survivors strike up the same jody call as they march to the rear and safety, showing the fresh soldiers coming into the battle that their spirit hasn't been broken by the vicious fighting they just endured. The same jody call is the theme music of the movie.
79	* ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', for that matter, has quite a few.
80	** During the bootcamp scenes each line is [[ThrowItIn sung by Gunny Hartman]], and repeated by the recruits:
81	-->"Up every mornin' to the rising sun\
82	Gonna run all day 'till the runnin's done\
83	Ho Chi Minh is a son of a bitch\
84	Got the blue balls, crabs and the seven-year itch"
85	-->"I don't know but I've been told\
86	Eskimo pussy is mighty cold\
87	Looks good\
88	Tastes good\
89	Feels good\
90	Real good!"
91	-->"I don't want no teenage queen\
92	I just want my M-14!"
93	-->"This is my rifle, this is my gun,\
94	This is for fighting, this is for fun!"\
95
96	** ''Series/TheMickeyMouseClub'' theme song is used as a marching song at the end of the film.
97
98	* From ''Film/SgtBilko'':
99	-->I can barely move my legs!\
100	Do me a favor and kill me now!\
101	Something, something rhymes with "[[RhymingWithItself legs]]"!\
102	My life is over anyhow!
103	* ''Film/HotShots'' has a FunnyBackgroundEvent wherein a group of sailors is doing calisthenics to the theme of ''Series/TheBradyBunch'', and a marching group uses "Dreidel, dreidel, dreidel, I made it out of clay".
104	* Used in ''D2: Film/TheMightyDucks'', with Gordon riding a go-kart while the Ducks rollerblade along with him.
105	--> I don't know but I been told\
106	Team USA's gonna win the gold\
107	Listen up and listen good\
108	We're all headed for Hollywood
109	* The title of the movie ''Film/SheWoreAYellowRibbon'' comes from an old marching song (Civil War/Wild West era). Some versions are quite a bit racier than the movie's version.
110	* In the film ''Film/AnOfficerAndAGentleman'', the Navy officer candidates, led by their own DrillSergeantNasty chant:
111	-->I don't know but it's been said\
112	that [[InterServiceRivalry Air Force wings are made of lead]].\
113	I don't know, but I've been told\
114	that Navy wings are made of gold.
115	** The film also features the RealLife military classic "Napalm Sticks to Kids". Network television showings generally use an alternate take.
116	** When Gunnery Sergeant Foley gives Mayo TrainingFromHell, he gets to chant the salty "Casey Jones was a son-of-a-bitch".
117	* Lampooned in the movie ''Film/{{Stripes}}'', when Bill Murray and Harold Ramis, after joining the Army, begin using "Do Wah Diddy Diddy" as a jody during their first march. Bizarrely, it works really well. Not only the right rhythm to it, it even has a call-and-response section....
118	** Reportedly, some armed forces units are ''[[{{Defictionalization}} actually using this song as a jody now]]'', because of the use in this film and how surprisingly well it worked.
119	* In ''Film/RenaissanceMan'', civilian instructor Bill Rago makes up a jody call about ''Hamlet''. By the end of the film, Drill Sergeant Cass is using it for the new batch of recruits.
120	--> Hamlet's momma, she's the queen
121	--> Buys it in the final scene
122	--> Drinks a glass of funky wine
123	--> Now she's Satan's valentine
124	* From ''Film/KindergartenCop'', during the "Arnold is learning to bond with the kindergarteners" montage and he's leading the kids around the playground in recess:
125	-->Readin', writin', arithematic\
126	Too much homework makes me sick\
127	When it's time to pass the test\
128	Kindergarten is the best!
129	* ''Film/LittleGiants'', in which the eponymous Giants (a children's UsefulNotes/AmericanFootball team) have this crude cadence insulting their sole opponent's coaches:
130	--> ''I don't know, but I've been told:\
131	[[UnfortunateNames Butz's butt]] is green with mold.\
132	You say thank you, I say please.\
133	Kevin [[BrokenAesop sits down when he pees]].''
134	* In ''Film/HeartbreakRidge'', Gunny Highway orders one of his men to give a cadence after witnessing the other platoon give a rather mundane one. The young man complies and belts out an incredibly rude one... right as they pass by a female Marine. Gunny's look is priceless.
135	-->''Model A Ford with a tankfull of gas\
136	Hand full of pussy and a mouthful of ass.''
137	* During the assault on the Abernathy's house in ''Film/SmallSoldiers'', some of the soldiers can be heard chanting "I don't know but I'm been told, Gorgonite blood is mighty cold!"
138	* No surprise that Film/MajorPayne would make his JROTC squad do these a few times. One example being when they complain about the less-than-luxurious barracks and Payne responds by burying them in a mud patch.
139	--> ''Love my barracks night and day.\
140	Won't complain; that's where I'll stay.''
141	* ''Film/MonsterHunter2020'': While they are driving across the desert, Captain Artemis lead Alpha Team in the traditional cadence "They Say That in the Army" (aka "O Lord, I Want to Go Home"), Later, she sings it to herself while she is being bait for a a Nerscylla.
142	-->''They say that in the army, the pay is mighty fine,\
143	Give you a hundred dollars and take back ninety-nine''
144	* In ''Film/TheBridgeOnTheRiverKwai'', the iconic "ColonelBogeyMarch" is whistled in an aversion enforced by the widow of the composer who wrote the original instrumental tune during UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, as the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hitler_Has_Only_Got_One_Ball lyrics]] added during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII--a HailToTheThief-style TheVillainSucksSong about UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and ThoseWackyNazis--were deemed too crude. This makes the tune an example of both WithLyrics and ForgottenThemeTuneLyrics at once!
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147	[[folder:Literature]]
148	* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': City Guard trainees being led by [[AllTrollsAreDifferent Detritus]]:
149	-->"Now we sing this stupid song\
150	Sing it as we run along\
151	Why we sing this we don't know\
152	[[SubvertedRhymeEveryOccasion We can't make the words rhyme prop'rly]]"\
153	Sound off!\
154	(One, two!)\
155	Sound off!\
156	(Many, lots!)\
157	''Sound off''!\
158	(Er... wot?)!
159	** [[Literature/NightWatchDiscworld All the little angels rise up, rise up! All the little angels rise up high!]]
160	* Kayla Williams's book ''Love My Rifle More Than You: Young And Female In The US Army'', takes its title from a cadence going:
161	-->Cindy, Cindy, Cindy Lou\
162	Love my rifle more than you\
163	You were once my beauty queen\
164	Now I love my M-16.
165	* The Aiel of ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'', a ProudWarriorRace, only sing in battle and at funerals. One of their marching songs begins:
166	--> Wash the spears
167	--> While the sun climbs high
168	--> Wash the spears
169	--> While the sun falls low
170	--> Wash the spears
171	--> Who fears to die
172	--> Wash the spears
173	--> No one I know!
174	** Mat's revived Band of the Red Hand has "Jak O' The Shadows", sung to the tune of the Garryowen
175	--> We'll drink the wine till the cup is dry,
176	--> And kiss the girls so they'll not cry,
177	--> And toss the dice until we fly,
178	--> To dance with Jak O'the Shadows...
179	* The ''Literature/DragonridersOfPern'' series uses songs as training/mnemonics, and some of them quite fit this mold.
180	--> Drummer, beat, and piper, blow,
181	--> Harper, strike, and solider, go,
182	--> Free the flame and sear the grasses,
183	--> Till the dawning red star passes.
184	* * The first ''Series/RedDwarf'' book has Rimmer trying to start "We are tough and we are mean, Rimmer's Z Shift gets things clean!" Nobody wants to join in.
185	* In the novelization of ''{{VideoGame/Wishbringer}}'', the Boot Patrol (at this time the alternate version of Festeron's police force rather than a force of enormous summoned boots) likes loud cadences to accompany their near ceaseless patrol for curfew-breakers. The cadences are seemingly impromptu, usually appropriate to their immediate activity and serve to warn people of their approach or pursuit. [[TheGuardsMustBeCrazy They do this regardless]] because they ''really like'' this trope; that in turn is enforced because they're part of a ritualized struggle for control over the town's dominant nature and are far too effective whenever people ''don't'' hear them coming.
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188	[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
189	* ''Series/BandOfBrothers'': Easy Company of the 101st Airborne sings this one as they run up three miles up a steep hill with a stomach full of spaghetti:
190	-->"We pull upon the risers\
191	We fall upon the grass\
192	We never land upon our feet\
193	We always hit our ass\
194	So highdy highdy Christ almighty, who the hell are we?\
195	Zim zam, Goddamn, we're Airborne Infantry!"
196	** They also do several verses of the Airborne version of ''Battle Hymn of the Republic'' (''Blood Upon the Risers'') "Gory, gory what a hell of a way to die! He ain't gonna jump no more!" later on.
197	* In ''Series/ThePacific'', a company-wide version of "Happy Birthday" turns into "how fucked are you now?"
198	* The theme music for the first and second seasons of ''Series/TheUnit'' was a remixed cadence call, "Fired Up, Feels Good." Somewhat snicker-worthy in that they used a Marine cadence call for a show about Army special ops. Oops. A different theme for the next two seasons.
199	* The Australian ''Series/TheLateShow'' released a comedy tape/CD that included,
200	-->I don't know but I've been told\
201	Fitted sheets are hard to fold
202	* WordOfGod says this is the origin of Adama and Starbuck's exchanges in ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica\|2003}}'', though in the show no context is given, and it's not delivered in any particular cadence.
203	--> Hey, Starbuck, whaddya hear?
204	--> Nothing but the rain[[note]]"rain" is a reference to the sound of debris hitting the hull of a Viper as the pilot flies through a cloud of what used to be their target.[[/note]], sir
205	--> Then grab your gun and bring in the cat
206	--> Boom boom boom
207	* Used in Creator/StephenColbert's Basic Training experience as part of the "Operation Iraqi Steven: Army of Me" week of shows recorded in Baghdad, Iraq.
208	* There was a Rottentrolls spinoff[=/=]ChristmasSpecial called ''Combat Sheep: Don't Flock'' (or something like that), which included a convention of people who make up training jodys, with many short gags of having one of them speaking solely in cadence calls. One example:
209	--> I must say that I'm in shock;
210	--> I've spilled Tango down my sock
211	* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' Season Four episode "Meltdown", the waxdroids who Rimmer has appointed himself General of are led in a marching song by a robot Music/ElvisPresley.
212	--> ''"All we do is a kill and slay''\
213	''"Don't care we if we get blown away!"''
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216	[[folder:Music]]
217	* Music/ModestMouse's "I Came As A Rat"
218	-->Well I don't know but I've been told\You'll never die and you never grow old
219	* The late Captain Jack, of ''VideoGame/DanceDanceRevolution'' fame, and his (well, [[IAmNotShazam ''their'']]) [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBj1mTyGDgA eponymous song]]. Makes sense, since Frankie Gee (the lead singer) was a soldier in the US Army, and the military theme was pretty much his entire stage persona. His trademark song is adapted from a very common military jodie, as well as his title.
220	--> Ejo, Captain/Whiskey Jack
221	--> Bring/Meet me back/down to the railroad track
222	--> Gimme a [gun/bottle/woman] in my hand
223	--> I wanna be a [shootin'/drinkin'/fuckin'] man
224	--> Left, right, left
225	--> The military step
226	--> The Air Force rap\
227	The Seventeen is the best
228	--> Gooooooo[[OverlyLongGag oooooooooooooooooo]] left go right go pick up the step, go left go right go left...
229	* Music/ChristinaAguilera sampled a Marine cadence called "Tarzan and Jane Swinging On a Vine" in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ScjucUV8v0 Candyman]].
230	** Which borrows heavily from The Andrews Sisters' 1941 song ''Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy'', something of a musical GenreThrowBack.
231	* Music/{{Madness\|Band}} closed out their album ''Music/OneStepBeyondAlbum'' with a [[MinisculeRocking very short]] military-style cadence called "Chipmunks Are Go!"
232	* The original "Sound Off" was adapted into a big 1951 novelty hit for bandleader Vaughn Monroe, with a popular R&B cover a few years later by Titus Turner (who curiously changed "Jody" to "Alvin" in his version).
233	* “Das Boot” by ''Music/HanzelUndGretyl'' is a CallAndResponse metal song done in this fashion, complete with a distorted voice counting the cadence in the background.
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236	[[folder:Newspaper Comics]]
237	* One old ''ComicStrip/BeetleBailey'' strip has Beetle leading a squad singing [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OfkcUqZMZ94 Call Me Irresponsible.]] The first few lines can easily fit the standard SoundOff rhythm.
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240	[[folder:Radio]]
241	* Radio station WCPT in Chicago, a progressive (liberal) radio station, used this cadence during commercial breaks several years ago:
242	--> I don't know but I've been told
243	--> Right-wing lies are getting old
244	--> So tune your dial to 'CPT
245	--> Progressive talk for you and me!
246	[[/folder]]
247
248	[[folder:Stand-Up Comedy]]
249	* In his 2002 Broadway stand-up show, Creator/RobinWilliams lampooned the Swiss Army knife's perennial inclusion of a corkscrew, imagining a Swiss DrillSergeantNasty explaining to raw recruits how to open a bottle of wine under fire. "I don't know but I've been told, Chardonnay must be served cold..."
250	* The D-Generation had this; "I don't know but I've been told, fitted sheets are hard to fold..."
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252
253	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
254	* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' has a galaxy's worth of potential hymns and chants for armies of the Imperium, but the only lyrics provided are the [[NumberOfTheBeast six hundred and sixty-six]] words of the Grey Knights' Canticle of Absolution and the Sisters of Battle's "Fede Imperialis." Fortunately where the rulebooks fail, ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hhoCf7Kq8Bc provides]].
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256
257	[[folder:Theater]]
258	* Parodied in ''Theatre/{{Seussical}}: The Musical'' with the soldiers chanting "Green Eggs and Ham".
259	* In ''Theatre/{{Spamalot}}'', the musical version of ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'', a cadence is used to foreshadow a character's sexuality and combine a reprise of a previous song with another Flying Circus reference. (If you don't get the joke, watch the ''Lumberjack'' sketch.)
260	--> I don't know but it's been said\
261	We're off to war, we're not yet dead\
262	Become a knight and you'll go far\
263	In suspenders and a bra
264	* ''Theatre/TheBibleTheCompleteWordOfGodAbridged'' has one for Joshua and his soldiers:
265	-->Gather round it's time to go!\
266	Kick some ass in Jericho!\
267	Listen up, now here's the news!\
268	We're taking Israel back for Jews!\
269	No sound!\
270	No noise!\
271	Let's go down and kill goys!
272	* ''Theatre/AFunnyThingHappenedOnTheWayToTheForum'' opts for puns:
273	--> One, two! One, two!\
274	We not only fought, but we won, too!\
275	Left, right! Left, right!\
276	There's none of the enemy left, right?
277	* The ScreenToStageAdaptation of ''Film/{{Newsies}}'' has this chant:
278	-->Newsies need our help today\
279	Tell 'em Brooklyn's on the way
280	* ''WesternAnimation/StrangeMagic'' is a {{JukeBox Musical}} the marching fairy and elf army sing "Bad Romance" by Music/LadyGaga.
281	[[/folder]]
282
283	[[folder:Video Games]]
284	* The sound clip for building a Network Node in ''VideoGame/SidMeiersAlphaCentauri'':
285	-->I don't know but I been told\
286	Deirdre's got a Network Node\
287	Likes to press on the on-off switch\
288	Dig that crazy Gaian witch\
289	[[PunctuatedForEmphasis Spartan! Barracks! March!]] (Yes sir!)
290	* Jamjars from ''VideoGame/BanjoTooie'' uses these to explain newly learned moves to the main characters. If you talk to him again, he tries a plain English explanation instead.
291	-->Jump up high and then press Z(ed),\
292	No need for fly pads or feathers red![[note]]Outside America, where it's pronounced "Zee", Z is pronounced Zed. The ''VideoGame/BanjoKazooie'' games are made by Rare, which is based in England,[[/note]]
293	* In ''VideoGame/Battlefield3'', several of the loading screens for multiplayer feature real Marine Corps cadences, notably Damavand Peak and Caspian Border. They work very well to get the player pumped up for the upcoming match.
294	* In ''VideoGame/Fallout3'', the Mister Gutsy variants of the Mister Handy droids will quote directly from the "If I should die in the combat zone" cadence when they die.
295	* Parodied in ''VideoGame/TheSims2'' with the description of the Military Recruit career. "I don't know but I've been told, cleaning latrines gets mighty old!"
296	* With her new post-rework voice set, Tristana the Yordle Gunner from ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'' [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=67slIsmkrSY chants one of these while marching on the spot]] when you use her /dance emote.
297	* Briefly heard in a cutscene in ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'':
298	-->I don't know but I've been told\
299	Joe [=McCarthy's=] good as gold!
300	* Used as part of [[{{Eagleland}} Khamsin]]'s theme in ''Videogame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', "The Hot Winds Blowing", as befitting his personality as a self-righteous jarhead.
301	-->I don't know what I've been told, [[JustFollowingOrders but the wishes of the people can't be controlled]]\
302	[[MadnessMantra I don't know what I've been told, but the wishes of the people can't be controlled]]
303	* Some of the songs in ''VideoGame/StarWarsJarJarsJourneyAdventureBook'' are based on the stereotypical military cadence.
304	--> Battle droids are made to fight\
305	They don't know their wrong from right\
306	Battle droids, they take their shots\
307	They don't care, they're just robots.
308	[[/folder]]
309
310	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
311	* ''VisualNovel/TheFruitOfGrisaia'': After finding Amane Suou very close to masturbating in his bed, Yuuji [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5YEqCqvVeI&t=24s makes up a cadence]] when running with Makina and Amane to class to mock her for it. Makina cheerfully sings along, seemingly oblivious as to the lyrics, while Amane begs them to stop.
312	--->Suou Amane's a bitch in heat!\
313	She likes to roll in guys' bedsheets!
314	[[/folder]]
315
316	[[folder:Webcomics]]
317	* ''Webcomic/DarthsAndDroids'' has the following when the [[http://darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0164.html droids start their invasion of Naboo]]
318	--> We are badass through and through! \
319	Now it's time to take Naboo! \
320	We are tougher than the Hutts! \
321	We will kick these Gungans' butts!
322	* One from ''Webcomic/UserFriendly'', when the [[DysfunctionJunction geeks]] are in [[{{Pun}} Boot Camp]]:
323	--> [[http://ars.userfriendly.org/cartoons/?id=20050125 Momma, momma, can't you see? \
324	Look what your basement's done to me!]]
325	[[/folder]]
326
327	[[folder:Web Original]]
328	* Skippy of ''Literature/SkippysList'' loves to screw around with these.
329	--> 58. The following words and phrases may not be used in a cadence- Budding sexuality, necrophilia, I hate everyone in this formation and wish they were dead, sexual lubrication, black earth mother, all Marines are latent homosexuals, Tantric yoga, Gotterdammerung, Korean hooker, Eskimo Nell, we've all got jackboots now, slut puppy, '''or any references to squid'''.[[note]](Perhaps because it's a nickname for sailors, often used in a derogatory manner, or a reference to the [[http://skippyslist.com/2007/07/09/cephalopod-surprise/ squid pie]] incident.)[[/note]]
330	* During the ''Podcast/RiffTrax'' on "Women In Blue", a short film about women in the Navy, Mike Nelson comes up with one of his own: "I don't know but I've been told, [[StayInTheKitchen quiet, dear, the men are talking]]". It's enough to crack Bill and Kevin up.
331	** The guys have fun during ''[[Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheTwoTowers The Two Towers]]'' uruk-hai scenes.
332	-->I don't know but I been told
333	-->Orcs strong but they not smart.
334	** Or
335	-->[[Series/TheMickeyMouseClub Who leader of club that made for you and me?]]
336	-->Orc can't spell but it Franchise/MickeyMouse.
337	* ''Series/KeyAndPeele'''s [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIXJhan8g40 "Sound Off"]] follows an Army sergeant leading his unit in one as they jog, which turns to laments about he'll end up a homeless ShellShockedVeteran while Creator/MarkWahlberg plays him in movies. [[spoiler:The last line is enough to cause them to scatter.]]
338	[[/folder]]
339
340	[[folder: Western Animation]]
341	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
342	** There's one one when Principal Skinner rejoined the Army. Skinner disapproved of the version the recruits already knew, and decided to make it more educational.
343	-->"I don't know but I've been told\
344	The Parthenon is mighty old"\
345	(How old?)\
346	"We don't know!"
347	** There's also a parody one in the episode where Bart and his friends went to war against Nelson:
348	--->"We are happy, we are merry\
349	We've got a rhyming dictionary"
350	** There's another reference in the episode where the kids go to military school. "Company L? But they smell!" "Yes, we've all heard the song."
351	* In a ''WesternAnimation/TazMania'' short where the family goes hiking and it starts to rain, somebody calls for a cadence and Taz chants:
352	-->Taz hate water, Taz hate water\
353	Taz hate water, Taz hate water
354	* Referenced in the ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'' episode "War Is The H-Word" -- the officer's club has a sign outside reading "We don't know but we've been told our beer on tap is mighty cold."
355	* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "Saving Private Brian:"
356	-->Theatre/WestSideStory, Theatre/AnythingGoes\
357	Two of our favorite Broadway shows\
358	Theatre/MissSaigon and Theatre/{{Cabaret}}\
359	Overrated I should say.
360	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'' done solely by a DrillSergeantNasty:
361	-->Recruits smell and that's no lie\
362	Hate your guts, gonna make you cry\
363	Call me smart, call me inspired\
364	You're gonna march 'til I get tired.
365	** In the same episode
366	-->'''Drill Sgt:''' I don't know but I've been told\
367	Army life is mighty bold\
368	Every night before retreat
369	-->'''Yakko:''' We order out for luncheon meat.
370	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'', [[GirlPosse the Debbies]] have such a song when earning money for a Girl Scouts (or "[[ScoutOut Little Amazons]]") competition. The lyrics contain advice for upper-class debutantes.
371	--> I don't know but I've been told\
372	Marry a man who's rich and old\
373	I don't know but it's been said\
374	Don't sign a prenup when you wed.
375	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
376	--> I don't know but I've been told\
377	Gigglepie accessories are seperately sold.
378	* In ''WesternAnimation/OzzyAndDrix'':
379	--> I don't know but I've been told\
380	Hector's feet have stinky mold.
381	* In the ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'' episode "Earth Camping":
382	--> I don't know but I've been told\
383	I don't know but I've been told
384	-->Camping songs will never get old\
385	Camping songs will never get old!
386	* In ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerbStarWars'', Candace does one as part of the song "In the Empire":
387	-->''I don't know, but I've been told\
388	The Rebels need to be controlled!\
389	We'll round 'em up and put 'em all in stocks,\
390	But first we gotta get Darth Vader's socks!''
391	* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' episode "Cool Hand Angelica", day camp is portrayed very similarly to boot camp. When the counselor on the bus suggests a sing-along, the song they sing comes off as this:
392	-->''Packed my white bread and salami\
393	Then said "Bye-bye" to my mommy\
394	She and daddy turned me loose\
395	With a canteen full of apple juice''\
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397
398	[[folder:Real Life]]
399	* TruthInTelevision. Songs like this are very much a part of life in the armed forces, especially during basic training since they allow a person to focus on something other than the monotonous/unpleasant job at hand. They are particularly common in the [[UsefulNotes/YanksWithTanks US Armed Forces]], which are generally accepted to have originated the "Jody Call", which was popularized by black soldiers during World War II ([[CallAndResponseSong call-and-response songs]] are an integral part of Black American culture). Specifically, "Sound Off" was originated during a 1944 marching drill by Willie Lee Duckworth, a black private from Georgia, and quickly spread throughout the military. A simple Google search for "Jody Calls" will yield many examples of these songs. Unfortunately, the traditional whimsical tone of Jody Calls isn't immune to abuse, and on occasion, soldiers have voiced discomfort about Jody Calls they've felt are ''too'' racist or homophobic. This trend seems a minor issue at best these days, and most calls (like the ones listed here) certainly aren't meant to be taken as the literal meaning of their words.
400	* However, at least in the U.S. Army, the really rude ones from the 20th century have long since been discontinued, and even swearwords and double-entendres are rare. This is in keeping with military policies against sexual harassment (since rude songs, like dirty pictures, can be a form of "hostile environment" sexual harassment even if they are not directed towards a specific servicemember).
401	* Soldiers in the Russian military have been known to use the "[[https://youtu.be/36mSfxQqgns Spongebob Squarepants]]" and "[[https://youtu.be/d7FIpqPvL7E Barbie Girl]]'' as jody calls.
402	[[/folder]]

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