With our standards high we will do or die never reason why,
Because we're in the Thirty-First.
We went to Russia to lick the Bolshevik,
And then in Shanghai we did our little bit.
So we'll carry on with a cheerful song ever brave and strong,
Because we're in the Thirty-First.
Source: reprinted from Warrant Officer Charles D. Brown's Thirty-First U.S. Infantry Organization Day Twenty-Fifth Anniversary program. Inside back cover.