[Verse:] To look at me you wouldn't think That I was once a skinny gink That doctors thought I would never last I thought I had so many ills And I was always taking pills But that is all a thing of the past [Refrain:] The Army's made a man out of me A man out of me, a man out of me My mother and my father agree The Army has made me a man
[Verse:] To look at me you wouldn't think That I was once a skinny gink That doctors thought I would never last I thought I had so many ills And I was always taking pills But that is all a thing of the past [Refrain:] The Army's made a man out of me A man out of me, a man out of me My mother and my father agree The Army has made me a man