Adam, for me it was a "ba DOO ba da DOO ba ba DOO DOT." For the non-scat folk, that's Miles Davis's great riff from "So What?" SDA froo froo. God bless 'em.
Here's a routine reminder: Write with future readers in mind.
How about the words? Military vocabulary. Fully declined second person pronoun, with correspondingly inflected verbs. A lot to like. I don't think they changed a syllable from the 1940 Hymnal text.
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