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Songs of the 10th Mountain Division

This thin volume contains lyrics, but not scores, for the following selections, which were chosen as representative of the songs sung and remembered by men of the 10th Mountain Division. (I've collected a few of these songs as MP3 files from the 10th Mtn Division Descendents Association.)

• Ninety Pounds of Rucksack (Tune: Navy's "Bell Bottom Trousers")
• Systems and Theories of Skiing
• Underneath the Takeoff (Chorus to the tune of "Hail Hail, The Gang's All Here", verses to the original tune)
• Oola
• Sven (Tune: old western song "Bold Bad Man")
• Among My Souvenirs
• 87th Best By Far (Tune: Norwegian ballad "Best-a-far")
• Two Boards (Tune: Austrian ski song "Zuoa Brett")
• No Japs At All (Tune: an old familiar barroom ballad)
• The Bundemann Song
• Palestine Ski School (Tune: an Austrian ski song)
• The Winter Song
• Captain
• This Is It (Tune: "The Battle Hymn of the Republic")

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