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Posted By: GeoffLawes
25-Mar-15 - 05:08 PM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: About WW1 Zeppelin downed on Hull raid
Subject: Lyr Req: About WW1 Zeppelin downed on Hull raid
Does anyone have complete lyrics and/or more information about a World War One song about the shooting down of a Zeppelin airship while it was engaged in a bombing mission on the English East Coast city of Hull?
I came across reference to it in a book by Tom Jamison : Icarus Over The Humber The Last Flight of Airship R.38/ZR-2. On page 15 he talks about Zeppelin raids along the east coast during WW1 and says

'Typical of the times, an enterprising balladeer wrote new words to the popular tune Back Home in Tennesse to celebrate the downing of one Zeppelin. Printed on a postcard, it sold for 1d (One old penny). It commenced:

His home in Germany, that Zep will never see,
The British gunnery did bring it down you see.
All he could think about that night was setting
Hull alight........etc    '