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Thread #39994   Message #570892
Posted By: GUEST,JTT
12-Oct-01 - 07:44 PM
Thread Name: Songs of Dismemberment
Subject: RE: Songs of Dismemberment
The old RAF song from the Great War, A Poor Aviator Lay Dying:

which has one verse that goes:

Take the manifold out of my larynx,
And the cylinders out of my brain,
Take the piston rods out of my kidneys,
And assemble the engine again."