I think, G-Force, you may be confusing two different songs to that tune [we once had a thread on all the different songs sung to this tune]. The 'helluva way to die' chorus, IIRC, properly speaking went with the one that began "He'd like to find the WAAF [Women's Auxiliary Air Force member] who left her handbag in his 'chute, For he won't go jumping any more"; a later verse went, quite graphically, "They scraped him off the tarmac like a lump of strawberry jam, For he won't..."

Not saying that this chorus hadn't drifted by folk process into the other song when you sang it; but not quite so apposite there, eh?

~M~