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.
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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