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Scott Miller "Red Ball Express"

submitted by calvados

1 decade 4 years 2 months 3 weeks ago

"The Red Ball Express was an enormous convoy system created by Allied forces to supply their forward-area combat units moving through Europe following the breakout from the D-Day beaches in Normandy. The term "Red Ball" was a railroad phrase referring to express shipping. The system lasted only three months, from August 25 to November 16, 1944, when the port facilities at Antwerp, Belgium were opened. Almost 75% of all Red Ball drivers were African Americans,[1] able-bodied soldiers who were denied front-line service because of racial discrimination, but who had been attached to various units for other duties. The term Red Ball is often used incorrectly to refer to all WWII European supply convoys by historians and the veterans themselves" -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Ball_Express

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http://www.lyrics007.com/Scott%20Miller%20Lyrics/Red%20Ball%20Express%20Lyrics.html

I jumped at it when I had the chance,
I joined the army and I went to France
At Roosevelt's request.
Two weeks of sitting in the mud
Made me lie to the man that I could drive a truck
For the Red Ball Express.

All we do is keep it rolling on
Trading bodies for petroleum
Heating rations on the manifold
And never sleep enough to dream about home

Benzedrined and looking through cat eyes
Of a deuce and a half and a days supply
Of jerry cans in back
Ain't no secret how the generals felt.
"Fuck the men they can eat their belts
but the tanks they must have gas"

All we do is keep it rolling on
Trading bodies for petroleum
Heating rations on the manifold
And never sleep enough to dream about home

The gears are sticking and the pressure's low
I felt the bump that means its time to go
Another twenty miles.
Thirty-six hours and I still ain't slept
I'm hearing voices talk inside my head
In Burma Shaving rhyme

All we do is keep it rolling on
Trading bodies for petroleum
Heating rations on the manifold
Even now I've never felt that old

Because fifty years later and you don't forget
Being eighteen and scared to death
In a world that's changing fast
Now my own son sends his own son off
To fight the next fight to be fought
And the Red Ball brings me back

Moving this video to calvados's personal queue. It failed to receive enough votes to get sifted up to the front page within 2 days.

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Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter calvados.

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Sending this video to Beggar's Canyon to plea for a little attention - beg requested by original submitter calvados.

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