WARRIOR WAY JODY
SHS Cadence
August 21, 2008
In the armed
services, a military cadence or cadence call is a traditional
call-and-response work song sung by military personnel while
running or marching. In the United States, these cadences are
sometimes called jody calls or jodies, after Jody, a recurring
character who figures in some traditional cadences.
Requiring no instruments to play, they are counterparts in oral
military folklore of the military march. As a sort of work song,
military cadences take their rhythms from the work being done
(compare sea shanty). Many cadences have a call and response
structure of which one soldier initiates a line, and the remaining
soldiers complete it, thus instilling teamwork and camaraderie for
completion. The cadence calls move to the beat and rhythm of the
normal speed (quick time) march or running-in-formation (double
time) march. This serves the purpose of keeping soldiers "dressed",
moving in step as a unit and in formation, whilst maintaining the
correct beat or cadence.
The word "cadence" was applied to these work songs because of an
earlier meaning, in which it meant the number of steps a marcher or
runner took per minute. The cadence was set by a drummer or
sergeant and discipline was extremely important, as keeping the
cadence directly affected the travel speed of infantry. There were
other purposes: the close-order drill was a particular cadence
count for the complex sequence of loading and firing a musket. In
the Revolutionary War, Baron von Steuben notably imported European
battlefield techniques which persist, greatly modified, to this
day.
(Reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jody_call)
We’re the
Warriors this we know! (echo)
So we’ve got to let it show! (echo)
Make good choices every day! (echo)
Because we live the Warrior Way! (echo)
Leader:
Sound off Respond: 1----2
Leader: Sound off Respond: 3---4
Whole group: 1----2-----3-----4 WARRIORS!!!
