They came from places far and and wide across this fine old nation

To take their place in history by fighting subjugation

By any king or tyrant in the world who might have notions

By attempting to defeat us in a battle for the oceans.

 

Now Sammy Sailor was a boy who had but one ambition

To be a sailor like his Dad, ‘twas a family tradition

So he upped and joined the Navy when he was seventeen

And finally found his place aboard a fightin’ submarine.

 

Oh, it’s Sammy this and Sammy that, just mind your p’s and q’s

And Sammy you stay outa sight when wearin’ your dress blues.

But when the bullets start to whizzin’ and we see that we’re in trouble

Why, it’s Sammy get in line now, pretty quick and on the double.

 

Now Sammy Sailor, he worked hard to fulfill his father’s wish

Of completing one old qual card so he could earn his fish

And when he had completed it and after taking his last test

He stood tall with comrades who recognized he was the best.

 

But then the middies came aboard for a four-week summer cruise

And it wasn’t long til everyone was presented with the news

That middies, too, could qualify to supplement their education

Though they could qual without the need of formal regulation.

 

Then Sammy and his shipmates were overcome with indignation,

Giving Dolphins to the middies was the final degradation

To hand out Silver Dolphins to the mids was dirty tricks

Just another bad example of the nations’s politics.

 

Oh, it’s Sammy this and Sammy that, just mind your p’s and q’s

And Sammy you stay outa sight when wearin’ your dress blues.

But when the bullets start to whizzin’ and we see that we’re in trouble

Why, it’s Sammy get in line now, pretty quick and on the double.