[Stu}:
Yank! The serviceman's journal

{Tennessee]:
Yank!

[Stu]:
Not pompous or pious
Says it's for us and by us
The men of no rank
Get the stories told in-

[Czechowski]:
Yank!

[Stu]:
They pump it out weekly

[Mitch]:
Yank!

[Stu]:
It ain't for the fickle
And it's only a nickel
Just regular types, airing their gripes
Not stiff and boring like Stars and Stripes
{Sarge] spoken:
Alright shitheads, listen up!
When I call your name, get into line. You're company C
Scoots, Abner!

[Stu]:
Charlie company, Christ!
All of 'em laughing at the fresh-faced kid, and-
Will any guys be my pals? Nobody sees me at all
Somebody see, somebody see

Picture a thousand guys just enlisted
Herded together like beef
Heads up our asses, scared we look dumb till we're handed magazines
To tell us what we've become is a Yank

[Tennessee]:
There's letters and pinups--woah!

[Stu]:
Yank!

[Mitch]:
There's jokes you'll be usin'

[Czechowski]:
And the jokes ain't confusin'!
[Stu] spoken:
The Sarge says our company - Charlie company, has turned out "movie perfect"
Whatever that means...

[Czechowski] spoken:
Charles Czechowski, Brooklyn

[Tennessee] spoken:
Abner Scoots, Chattanooga

[Rotelli] spoken:
Vittorio Rotelli, Sicily

[Professor] spoken:
Simon Portchester, Boston

[Cowen] spoken:
Hyron Cowen, Seattle

{Stu]:
Thrown together with strangers

[Mitch] spoken:
Mitch Adams, Trenton

[Stu] spoken:
Wonder who these guys are... who they left behind
[Woman]:
My darling
Bye baby, now don't go forgettin' the pettin' your Missus gonna miss
But if you're blue, just reminisce on this, and this, and-

[Various Soldiers]:
Bye darling
Bye dollface
Buh-bye toots
Bye sweetie-pie
Goodbye my dear
Bye my lady
Bye lovie
Bye luscious

[Stu]:
Bye mom

[Stu's mother] spoken:
Bye darling
This is a gift from your father and me
It's a journal, so you'll remember everything that happens

[Sarge] spoken:
Move it, move it!
Jesus, you're even sorrier than the last pieces of crap they sent me!
They are scraping the bottom of the barrel!
Where were you all in 42' when we needed 'ya!

(Various whistling)

[Sarge] spoken:
You stink!
You're crap!
Czechowski, you been shovin' kielbasa up your ass?
Don't crap out on me, Adams!
Stewart, you stink-you stink!
Stewart you are the most pathetic, fruit bearing cocksucker I have ever seen!

[Stu]:
Charlie company, shit! Each of 'em better than I'll ever be!
I'll never fool them for long
They'll see right through
Gotta try, gotta try

[Sarge] spoken:
Okay, Stewart-alone
Again
Again

[Various Charlie Company]
Moron
Jeez
Idiot
Christ

[Sarge] spoken:
Alright, hit the showers!

[Professor]:
Picture each inch of 'ya bruised and blistered

[Rotelli]:
A wishin' you could relax

[Mitch]:
Government owns 'ya

[Tennessee]:
Nowhere to hide

[All]:
Got no privacy at all

[Czechowski]:
As a private, you're privacy's bust

[All]:
Everyday is just Yank! Yank!

[?]:
Smells like a barnyard in here!

[?]:
Shut up?

[Czechowski]:
Who farted?
I'm gonna kill whoever farted!

[All]:
Yank!

[Tennessee]:
I could surely use a yank-

[Stu] spoken:
Ok, so let me say just one thing about showers...
I hate them
Everyone else just looks so easy, stands there joking like nothing's unusual
While I'm rushing and wishing I were invisible
Why aren't I relaxed like them
Why do I hate it?
'Cause I do-hate being around men
Maybe that means I'm even more normal than them
And not how I sometimes feel
Like a fella somehow born into the wrong kind of body

[Sarge] spoken:
Stewart! Front and center!

[Stuart]:
Oh god, oh god...

[Sarge] spoken:
Stewart, do you know what I see every time I look at your pretty face?

[Stu]:
I know, I know!
I'm the worst one in the squad

[Sarge] spoken:
You're the worst one in the squad!

[Stu]:
I stink
Pathetic
I mean, dropping my rifle...

[Sarge] spoken:
Dropping your rifle!
Know how fast Tojo's boys woulda been on your ass?
So you're gonna stay up all night drilling until you can do it in your sleep
Or ALL Charlie company's gonna be on latrines
For the rest of basic!

[Stu]:
Oh god, oh god...

[Professor]:
You were a business man pre-induction

[Czechowski]:
You were a man of the world!

[Tennessee]:
Now you're a dog-face, rest is a blur!

[All]:
You're forgettin' who 'ya was!

[Sarge] spoken:
Ok Stewart, show me!
You pass...

[All]:
Cause whatever you were-

[Sarge] spoken:
For now!

[All]:
Now you're a Yank!

[Professor]:
You're searching for comfort

[Czechowski]:
Ain't had that for ages

[Tennessee]:
'Cept inside the pages of-

[All]:
Yank! A friend you can turn to!
Thank! The fellows who write it! Makes you feel all united!
No matter your rank! You're always somebody to Yank!
A serviceman's journal!
Connects you to millions!
And it ain't for civilians!
In buck, tent, tank!
Where there's army there's a Yank!
Where there's army there's a Yank!
Where there's army there's a Yank!