A friend linked this video for Memorial Day,
Gene Simmons is doing a tribute to the Military for a Military audience. As he starts doing the official songs for each branch, I think to myself “This will be interesting- I’ve never heard whatever the song is for the Coast Guard before.”
He proceeds: Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines . . . and I think, “Wait, he’s not closing on Marines? That song is a closer- how do you follow that? Bad choice. Coast Guard song better be really bad-ass.”
But then . . . no Coast Guard song. He closes with “God Bless America”, and yes it is tough to follow the Marine Corps song- but I suppose an all-inclusive closer was appropriate.
So, I’m wondering were the Coast Guard not invited? Are they often left “out of the know” when there are events honoring the Armed Forces? Or were they there and they just got dissed with no song?
O.K. to answer the above questions I suppose we need info about the actual event at which the video was taken- info that I don’t have, info that the YouTube page doesn’t provide.
But here’s a question:
Does the U.S. Coast Guard have a song?
The Wiki page mentions an official March Semper Paratus, but is it just an instrumental march or is there a version with lyrics?
Searching YouTube, I’ve only found instrumentals- no lyrics.