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Thread #17453   Message #805170
Posted By: Hrothgar
17-Oct-02 - 05:31 AM
Thread Name: Origins: Ta-Ra-Ra Boom-De-Ay
Subject: RE: Query: When was Tah Rah Rah Boom-di-Ay?
There was a US Air Force song from the Korean War - about early model F-86 (Sabre?) jet fighters, which apparently had at the time a reputation for overheating and blowing themselves to bits???

Chorus went:

Will you go boom today?
Two blew up yesterday,
It might be you today.

The only verse line I remember was at the start:

If you fly an eighty-six..........

Only ever heard it once, in about 1964.