The first song I ever heard that made me realise Mike Harding was far, far more than 'just a writer of comedic songs' is now on Youtube, for all to here, so, I thought I'd share it with you. It's Beautiful... 'Bomber's Moon' on Youtube Bomber's Moon by Mike Harding: "'44 in Bomber County Young men waiting for the night In the hedgerows birds are singing Calling in the falling light And the Captain says "Tonight there'll be a bomber's moon We'll be there and back Underneath a bomber's moon A thousand bombers over the Northern Sea Heading out...out for Germany" Chalkie White stands at the dartboard Curly Thompson writes to his wife Nobby Clarke and Jumbo Johnson Are playing cards and smoking pipes And over the hangars rises a bomber's moon Full and clear, rising as the engines croon And the planes, they taxi out on to Runway Five And sail off out, into the silvery night Sandy Campbell checks his oil gauge The Belgian coast is coming soon Curly Thompson lifts his sextant And lines up on the bomber's moon And the waves are shining there Beneath the bomber's moon Lancasters flying high Below the bomber's moon Rumbling in along the Belgian coast A thousand silver shrouded ghosts Flak flies up around the city Jumbo Johnson banks his plane Goes in low and drops his payload Turns to join the pack again And people are dying there Below the bomber's moon The city's a raging hell Below the bomber's moon The planes head out Towards the Northern Sea Young men coming home from victory Over Belgian came the fighters Flying high against the night Curly Thompson saw them coming Closing in before he died And the young men shot them down Below the bomber's moon Shot them down in flames Below the bomber's moon Young men sending young men To their graves Saw them down Into the North Sea waves '83 in Bomber County Mrs. White dusts the picture and she cries Chalkie White in uniform Looking as he did the day he died For God's sake, no more bomber's moons! No more young men growing up to die too soon Old men sending young men out to die Young men dying for a politician's lies For God's sake, no more bomber's moons! No more young men growing up to die too soon Old men sending young men out to kill! If we don't stop them, then they never will No more, no more bomber's moons No more, no more bomber's moons No more, no more bomber's moons No more, no more bomber's moons......
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