Remember Pearl Harbor!
Remember Pearl Harbor, when you sight down the barrel of your gun
Remember Pearl Harbor, never stop, 'til you drop every one
Give'em bomb for bomb, give'em shell for shell
Kill a hundred rats for every boy that fell
Remember Pearl Harbor, wipe the Jap from the map, give'em hell
Dawn on a Sunday morning
Dawn on the wide blue sea
A warrior isle of sunshine
Lay so peacefully
Then from the sky without warning
The vultures swarmed to attack
Hiding behind their "peace talk"
They stabbed our boys in the back
Remember Pearl Harbor, every hour, every day that we live
Remember Pearl Harbor, and the crime we can never forgive
Through the sweat and toil
Through the blood and tears
Keep this battle cry ringing in our ears
Remember Pearl Harbor, let this song keep us strong through the years
Remember how we used to call them our "little brown brothers?"
What a laugh that turned out to be
Well, we can all thank God that we're not related
To that yellow scum of the sea
They talked of peace, and of friendship
We found out just what all that talk was worth
All right, they've asked for it, and now they're going to get it
We'll blow every one of them right off of the face of the Earth
Remember Pearl Harbor, in the air on the land, on the sea
Remember Pearl Harbor, here's a job we can do, you and me
Keep'em flying high clear across the pond
Make our dollars fight, buy another bond
Remember Pearl Harbor, day and night, pray and fight, carry on!
Remember Pearl Harbor, when you sight down the barrel of your gun
Remember Pearl Harbor, never stop, 'til you drop every one
Give'em bomb for bomb, give'em shell for shell
Kill a hundred rats for every boy that fell
Remember Pearl Harbor, wipe the Jap from the map, give'em hell
Dawn on a Sunday morning
Dawn on the wide blue sea
A warrior isle of sunshine
Lay so peacefully
Then from the sky without warning
The vultures swarmed to attack
Hiding behind their "peace talk"
They stabbed our boys in the back
Remember Pearl Harbor, every hour, every day that we live
Remember Pearl Harbor, and the crime we can never forgive
Through the sweat and toil
Through the blood and tears
Keep this battle cry ringing in our ears
Remember Pearl Harbor, let this song keep us strong through the years
Remember how we used to call them our "little brown brothers?"
What a laugh that turned out to be
Well, we can all thank God that we're not related
To that yellow scum of the sea
They talked of peace, and of friendship
We found out just what all that talk was worth
All right, they've asked for it, and now they're going to get it
We'll blow every one of them right off of the face of the Earth
Remember Pearl Harbor, in the air on the land, on the sea
Remember Pearl Harbor, here's a job we can do, you and me
Keep'em flying high clear across the pond
Make our dollars fight, buy another bond
Remember Pearl Harbor, day and night, pray and fight, carry on!
Frank Luther’s “Remember Pearl Harbor” recorded in december 1941 by Carson Robinson was a war time anthem for troops, reminding them of the terrible pearl harbor bombing. The song is presented in a extremely pro war manner, encouraging troops to kill Japanese soldiers in response for pearl harbor. This song contains a lot of shockingly offensive language directly referring to Japanese people like “rats”, “little brown brothers” and “yellow scum of the sea”. Frank Luther included that language in the song to identify the Japanese as the enemy so that American troops and citizens listening to the song would resent the Japanese even more. Other language used in the song that stands out is the repetitive use of the phrase “Remember Pearl Harbor….” so that people would associate the other things about Japanese troops with pearl harbor. This song is in support of the Collective Security foreign policy used by the US because it was written by people from the United States that were in full support of the war and protecting the freedoms and liberties of the United States of America. This song answers the driving question of how war effects society because its show the defensive standpoint of an entire nation after they have been attacked. Personally I do not agree with the message of this song because I feel that it is too aggressive towards the Japanese and I can't relate to that feeling because I did not live in that time period.