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Thread #108354 Message #2253650
Posted By: Charley Noble
04-Feb-08 - 08:11 PM
Thread Name: Songs about airplanes, aeroplanes, air travel
Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes
Sir jOhn-
Should you be reminded to check what has been posted above?
Deportees is a great song but it has been mentioned at least three times before.
I, however, made a mistake above in crediting James Keelaghan with composing "Princes of the Skies." Here's the song as Keelaghan sings it with appropriate credit:
Princes of the Clouds (Tony Kaduck 1989 SOCAN)
I am a flyer, one of those wind-in-the-wires boys At the country fairs, you may have heard my name And I have flown where only wind and wild men go In the skies of France, or west across the plains When war was done, I couldn't go back to the farm There were Curtis Fours and Avros for a song It seemed like single and free was the only way to be I bought a good old craft and I named her Southern Star
We drew crowds; they called us "Princes of the Clouds" In the railway towns across the Great Divide We'd come in low, then stage a dogfight for a show Then take the brave ones up for fifty cents a ride Just Bob and me; we didn't need no company And those farm girls made us welcome when we came It seemed like single and free was the only way to be And we swore those glory days would never end
We had it planned; we were gonna fly the Rio Grande When I met her at a show near Calgary Becky Ann, she could have had her any man But I bought a ring; she said she'd marry me Bob went on; he headed south toward the sun I couldn't look him in the eye when the time had come He just said, "Single and free, man, it's the only way to be Southern Star got parked behind the old man's barn
Six years ago, Bob was flying mail in Mexico When his plane went down; the wreck was never found The thirties came, we went two years without the rain Now I've a factory job, and room and board in town Becky knew that the glory days were through I got a letter from New Orleans the other day And she said, "Single and free is the only way to be Now, Southern Star, take me back and let me dream Oh, Southern Star, I got lost along the way.