Name: Squared Me Away
Duration: P00H03M38S
Description: Written and recorded at the Operation Song retreat in collaboration with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs in November of 2019.

Regie Hamm - Squared Me Away

from Dept. of Veterans Affairs, VISN 5 November 2019 by Operation Song

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Written and recorded at the Operation Song retreat in collaboration with the Dept. of Veterans Affairs in November of 2019.

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Squared Me Away
John Fay/Regie Hamm

Just a roughneck kid from Boston on a corner of god’s green earth
With Italians, Blacks and Irish all just fighting over turf
My way out was football fields and bloody boxing rings
‘Til I joined the United States Marines

I went in a boy but the Corps made me a man
Everything I thought I couldn’t do
They taught me that i can
Yeah snap to, fall in, shine those shoes get stronger everyday
I thought I was marching in circles
But it squared me away

I commanded tanks at 18 I advised in Vietnam
Had some crazy nights in Hong Kong things I’d never tell my mom
I served in the Philippines and at the Suez Canal
Watched history unfold - yeah I know now …

Repeat chorus

I got out in ’63 went on to brand new things
But with every morning’s reveille my DI’s voice still rings …

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from Dept. of Veterans Affairs, VISN 5 November 2019, released November 29, 2019
Written by Veteran John Fay with Operation Song writer, Regie Hamm

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