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Thread #48962 Message #740125
Posted By: Dave Bryant
01-Jul-02 - 11:16 AM
Thread Name: Songs You Learned in the Service?
Subject: RE: SONGS YOU LEARNED IN THE SERVICE?
I've always been interested in RAF and Fleet Air Arm songs. The A25 song from the FAR is in the DT as already mentioned - if you don't already know it look it up.
There were large numbers of RAF songs - one which I'm looking for is often called "The ballad of Mr Richard Suppards" - each verse ends with his initial and surname ie "He flew his plane - R Suppards" (hint: in England we say Arse not Ass).
I have this version of a well-known RAF song (to the tune of "John Browns Body").
Our flight sargeant wants a rope around his neck (x3)
Chorus:
But he ain't goin' to jump no more.
Gory, Gory, what a helluva way to die (x3)
And he ain't going to jump no more.
A WAF down at dispersal, tied a love-knot in his cord.
He jumped without a parachute at twenty thousand feet.
The scraped him off the tarmac like a lump of strawbery jam.
They sent him home to mother on a piece of four by two.
She keeps him on the mantlepiece beside his DFC.