Marines' Hymn - Extra Verses

Extra Verses

Various people over the years wrote unofficial or semi-unofficial extra verses to commemorate later battles and actions, for example, this verse commemorating the occupation of Iceland during World War II:

Again in 1941, we sailed a north'ard course

and found beneath the midnight sun, the Viking and the Norse.

The Iceland girls were slim and fair, and fair the Iceland scenes,

and the Army found in landing there, the United States Marines.

As the anticipated invasion of Japan neared, this portion of another verse was on a sign the Marines erected on Bougainville:

"So when we reach the 'Isle of Japan'

with our caps at a jaunty tilt,

we'll enter the city of Tokyo

on the roads the Seabees built."