Name: Oorah Up!
Duration: 3 min 36 s
Channel: (c) 2006 Townley/Hamilton
Description: "Oorah Up!" is a song by StudioMacSounds.

StudioMacSounds

StudioMac Sounds is me, Mitch Townley. I am a Children's Pastor from Knoxville, TN. I have been writing seriously since 2003. It has become a wonderful hobby and a way to let my daughter Kristen (20) do some recording with her wonderful voice. I hope you enjoy my collection of Christian, country and comedy songs. Thanks to my many friends who have written the music for, played instruments on, and sung on these cuts.

Song Info

Genre

Country • Alternative Country

Charts

#1,208 in subgenre Peak #5

Charts

Peak #27

Author

Rights

StudioMac Sounds

Uploaded

November 13, 2006

Track Files

MP3

MP3 3.3 MB • 128 kbps • 3:36

Lyrics

Oorah Up!
© 2006 Mitch Townley / Scott Hamilton

(v1)
Ten hours in, two days to go
On a southbound turn around to San Antoine
Parked my rig at a stop north of New Orleans
Shared some hard luck stories and some black coffee
With a storm survivor wearing old fatigues
Asked him what it was that got him through
He said Paris Island, class of sixty-two
Where I learned

(chorus)
Give a war cry, Sound off! Oorah up!
Never back down from anyone
Nothing, no sir, not anytime
From your gut give a battle cry
Quittin don't run in our blood
Just hunker down and Oorah up!

(v2)
Turns out he was a company man
Third Battalion, First Marines, Vietnam
Came home with a Purple Heart and a mean tattoo
His buddies gave him in the jungle, a salute 
To his Semper Fi, won't die attitude
Talked alot about standing tall and tough
Said you gotta face life with your sleeves rolled up
And

(repeat chorus)

(bridge:)
I asked him if he'd ever met a Private James
Then told him how my dad went MIA
He said no, but felt he knew him just the same
And thought of him ev'ry time he 'd say ..... 

(chorus)
Give a war cry, Sound off! Oorah up!
Never back down from anyone
Nothing, no sir, not anytime
From your gut give a battle cry
Quittin’ don't run in our blood
Just, hunker down and Oorah up! 
Yeah, Oorah up!