Nah. That doesn’t make me want to run across the field and gut the Hun, it makes me want to play air guitar with my rifle and do power slides in my foxhole 
I dunno. Just makes me feel like I’m graduating from high school. 
Not exactly military, but what about Solidarity Forever? It serves the same essential purpose, except instead of war it has people stupidly risking life and limb for the sake of better wages and working conditions.
That was what I thought the thread would be about too. Either that, or songs with lyrics that portray men as being stupid.
Hmmm… 
OK… perhaps a bit similar (and maybe not in the “sprint to your death” vein – but more of the "We shall never surrender! Never!! variety), how about Jerusalem?
Why do I get the urge to stand in a box with a fishbowl on my head?
Some issue with your meds? 
(Or was that the whirring sound of a joke buzzing over my head?) 
Well, perhaps not the fishbowl. But as for the other bit . . . (from 4:00)
In Barry Lyndon, the British and Prussian armies during the 1700s had fife and drum corps which played ridiculously jolly music as line after line of men marched straight into enemy gunfire.
Not even close! Your first was “Pomp and Circumstance” with lyrics and all “Jerusalem” inspires me to do is maybe sabotage a dark, satanic mill. Completely missing the point of a song that switches off two thirds of your brain.
Like Garry Owen for the 7th Cavalry (Custer’s men)?
That song makes me either want to:
Start dancing Riverdance
Imitate Space Ghost 
It may be hard to sing but I still love the Star Spangled Banner
or how about God Bless America
The British Grenadiers makes me want to go over the top and give the Hun a proper stabbing.
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded gold;
Greater than the might of armies magnified a thousandfold -
We can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the old!
For the union makes us strong…
Oh yeah. Suit me up, I’m ready for Minneapolis 1934.
Oh, that makes rather more sense. Very amusing.
You sir are clearly not British!
(Well, neither am I. but…) IMO both Land of Hope and Glory and Jerusalem to have that irrational sense of patriotism that makes men do stupid things.
Oh, and add Rule Britannia. (Trouble finding a decent version – but it’s only the chorus that’s important anyway – first one at about 0:45)
Well, it’s a bit modern, and not so much “running” is involved, but this one seems to fit the bill.
I’m going to change this up a bit. There are certainly, as mentioned here, a good number of songs that encourage young men to march to their deaths on the battlefield. However, there are far FAR more that put younger men in a mind set where taking suicidal risks seem acceptable or even desirable.
These songs are about cars and girls.
Hot Rod Lincoln
Radar Love
Born to Run (which even refers to cars as ‘suicide machines’)
Countless others
These songs play on the inherent believe that young men hold in their own immortality…that consequences are for other people and that taking insane risks will impress the girls and get the young men laid. Heck, I’d be willing to bet that FAR more men aged 18-22 get killed in avoidable automobile accidents than on the battlefield (and I’d include training accidents for the soldiers as well).
I think the preeminent example of this from the world of musical theatre has got to be Do You Hear the People Sing from Les Miserables.
Thisonce came on the car radio, and I immediately acelerated by 20mph and began performing evasive maneuvers. I think that counts.
Yes, this definitely has a place somewhere on my top ten list of Most Dangerous Driving Music.
Right up there with “Ride of the Valkyries.”