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Val Kilmer gave my husband, David Mamet, a Randall knife as a gift when the two of them were making the film "Spartan."

Later, when Dave and Eric Haney came up with the idea for a TV show, based on the film, (which was based on Haney's book "Inside Delta Force"), and they needed some music for the show, the knife inspired Dave, who went and wrote some lyrics for a song about a Randall knife being passed down through the generations of men in an army family. He called the song "Army Brat."

Here is one of the verses:

"Oh Where in the world did my husband die?

Don't send down an officer and tell me a lie,

And what have you left the army wife,

A folded flag and a Randall Knife".

He came to me and asked me to make it into a song. He wanted it to be an homage to counting cadence, (I don't know but I've been told.... etc), like a marching song. Well I went off and wrote some music and a tune that I thought reflected this. It came out like a cross between cadence, and a country song.

Dave tells me this song contains the best couplet he ever wrote. Here it is:

"What did you get from your Uncle Sam?

A forty-five pistol with a stove-pipe jam,

How did you save your worthless life?

A sweet disposition and a Randall Knife."

A stove pipe jam I am informed, is a half ejected cartridge, sticking up through the ejection port, like a stove-pipe, and reducing the pistol, to the status of a conversation piece, until the jam is cleared.

The show is called "The Unit" and is about a team of special forces operatives, who are deployed on secret missions throughout the world, and also, interestingly, about their wives back home on base, keeping the home fires burning, or not, as the case may be. It is rather a spectacular piece, and can be seen on CBS, in January. I don't know if this song will be in it or not, but I sure am glad we wrote and recorded it.

Hope you enjoy it.