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In the military, especially during a long march or run, the [[Sergeant Rock|sergeant]] will lead a song called a cadence call, military cadence, or jody song to keep his subordinates' spirits up as they train, march, or work around their base or encampment.
The songs cover a variety of topics, including the civilian at home who's sleeping with your significant other (i.e. Jody), the amount of [[Badass]] your service or unit has compared to the other services or units, the hazards unique to your particular unit or service, your own vulgar and violent tendencies, et cetera.
Although many of the songs are [[Call-and-Response Song|call-and-response]], not all of them are. However, they are always sung to the rhythm of the task at hand.
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* Ads for ''Frosted Flakes'' cereal over the past few years have adopted one of these as their theme. "We are tigers..." Taken from the Princeton U fight chant.
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* Kayla Williams's book ''Love My Rifle More Than You: Young And Female In The US Army'', takes its title from a cadence going:
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* Parodied in ''[[Seussical|Seussical: The Musical]]'' with the soldiers chanting "Green Eggs and Ham".
* In ''[[Spamalot]]'', the musical version of ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'', a cadence is used to foreshadow a character's sexuality and combine a reprise of a previous song with another Flying Circus reference. (If you don't get the joke, watch the ''Lumberjack'' sketch.)
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