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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Barry T Date: 06 Feb 08 - 11:06 PM I remember this whimsical tune from a Laurie Bower Singers LP back in the early 70's. I also remember The Irish Rovers singing it on their TV show. I think the title is correct, but I was unable to track down the name of the composer. I WISH I WAS A PLANE I wish I was a plane so I could fly above the rain And leave my worries on the ground. The worries in my mind are the imaginary kind And if I was a plane they couldn't bring me down. Maybe if I was a kite they'd never make things right I'd get so tied down with a string. Besides, they'd need a breeze so they could fly along with ease And if I was a plane I wouldn't need a thing. Chorus ------ Above the clouds I would fly in a sky that is blue All the world will be down instead of me. Though the mountains would try they would not get as high I know they'd try to touch me but I'd be too free. Oh the world will never see a plane as high as me My silver wings will touch the sun. I won't rest till I find a spot up in the sky A spot abover the clouds just big enough for me. Chorus Repeat first verse |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: M.Ted Date: 07 Feb 08 - 06:21 AM "In the Aeroplane Over the Sea" by Neutral Milk Hotel |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Santa Date: 07 Feb 08 - 06:25 AM Early Morning Rain: Gordon Lightfoot |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: SouthernCelt Date: 07 Feb 08 - 01:19 PM To Guest, Rich: Yes, the Byrds were 8 miles high but I never asssumed they used an aircraft ;-). Don't see "Ballad of the Green Berets" mentioned. (Yes, I realize it doesn't say airplane but the first line is "Fighting soldiers from the sky...") This one may not be remembered by anyone but late 60s "hawks" and John Wayne fans. SC |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Sandy Mc Lean Date: 07 Feb 08 - 01:30 PM The Irish Rovers sang this: http://nghardin.home.att.net/Rovers/IRSL-Biplane.htm |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,saltz Date: 07 Feb 08 - 02:37 PM Airport, The Motors 1978. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Mark Ross Date: 07 Feb 08 - 02:49 PM SHIP IN THE SKY by Woody Guthrie and or course; THERE'LL BE A HOT, HOT TIME IN LAKEHURST NEW JERSEY WHEN THE HINDENBURG COMES TO TOWN.. Mark Ross |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Santa Date: 07 Feb 08 - 04:14 PM Paxton: I lost my heart on a 747. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Ken Brock Date: 07 Feb 08 - 06:36 PM Cole Porter - I Get a Kick Out Of You. Cited for excellent use of internal rhymes such as _fly_ing up _high_ with some _guy_ in the _sky_ is my _i_dea of nothing to do. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Suffolk Miracle Date: 08 Feb 08 - 06:30 AM Woody Guthrie: Ship in the Sky Well, a curly-headed girl with a bright shining smile Heard the roar of a plane as it sailed through the sky To her playmates she said, with a bright twinkling eye My Daddy flies that ship in the sky x 3 My Mama's not afraid and neither am I 'Cause my Daddy flies that ship in the sky Then a button-nosed kid, as he kicked up his heels He said, My Daddy works in the iron and the steel My Dad builds the planes and they fly through the sky And that's what keeps your daddy up there so high x3 My Dad builds the planes and they fly through the sky And that's what keeps your daddy up there so high Then a freckle-faced kid pinched his toe in the sand He says, My Daddy works at that place where they land You tell your mama, don't be afraid My Dad'll bring your daddy back home again x3 Don't be afraid when it gets dark and rains My Dad'll bring your daddy back home again And slightly more remotely- Woody Guthrie: Lindberg Mister Charlie Lindbergh, he flew to old Berlin, Got 'im a big Iron Cross, and he flew right back again To Washington, Washington. Missus Charlie Lindbergh, she come dressed in red, Said: "I'd like to sleep in that pretty White House bed In Washington, Washington." Lindy said to Annie: "We'll get there by and by, But we'll have to split the bed up with Wheeler, Clark, and Nye In Washington, Washington." Hitler wrote to Lindy, said "Do your very worst," Lindy started an outfit that he called America First In Washington, Washington. All around the country, Lindbergh he did fly, Gasoline was paid for by Hoover, Clark, and Nye In Washington, Washington. Lindy said to Hoover: "We'll do the same as France: Make a deal with Hitler, and then we'll get our chance In Washington, Washington Then they had a meetin', and all the Firsters come, Come on a-walkin', they come on a-runnin', In Washington, Washington Yonder comes Father Coughlin, wearin' the silver chain, Cash on his stomach and Hitler on the brain. In Washington, Washington Mister John L. Lewis would sit and straddle a fence, His daughter signed with Lindbergh, and we ain't seen her since In Washington, Washington Hitler said to Lindy: "Stall 'em all you can, Gonna bomb Pearl Harbor with the help of old Japan." In Washington, Washington Then on a December mornin', the bombs come from Japan, Wake Island and Pearl Harbor, kill fifteen hundred men. Washington, Washington Now Lindy tried to join the army, but they wouldn't let 'im in, 'Fraid he'd sell to Hitler a few more million men. In Washington, Washington So I'm a gonna tell you people: If Hitler's gonna be beat, The common workin' people has got to take the seat In Washington, Washington. And I'm gonna tell you workers, 'fore you cash in your checks: They say "America First," but they mean "America Next!" In Washington, Washington |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Greycap Date: 08 Feb 08 - 07:39 PM Apart from all the aforementioned there's a good one called " Colin Kelly, won't you tell the boys up yonder" which was an old patriotic WWll song about a B-17 pilot, recorded by Chester & Lester Buchanan. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Gweltas1 Date: 08 Feb 08 - 09:57 PM Unless I missed it when scrolling down though this thread, there hasn't been a mention of "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines" !! |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Uncle Phil Date: 08 Feb 08 - 10:22 PM If nothing else it's easy to remember the words. SILVER WINGS (Merle Haggard) Silver wings shining in the sunlight, Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight. They're taking you away, Leaving me lonely, Silver wings slowly fading out of sight. "Don't leave me." I cried, "Don't take that airplane ride." But you locked me out of your mind, And left me standing here behind. Silver wings shining in the sunlight, Roaring engines headed somewhere in flight. They're taking you away, Leaving me lonely, Silver wings slowly fading out of sight. Silver Wings from the "Last of the Breed" tour - Phil |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: topical tom Date: 09 Feb 08 - 11:43 AM John Denver's "Leaving on a Jet Plane |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Volgadon Date: 09 Feb 08 - 01:51 PM Has "On a wing and a prayer" been mentioned? |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Lin in Kansas Date: 09 Feb 08 - 06:24 PM Great one, Uncle Phil! Here's another: Gary Allen, "Watching Airplanes" Don't think he wrote this one, but he does a great job performing it. Lin |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: nager Date: 09 Feb 08 - 06:42 PM I guess any political song would be appropriate? They would have to be left wing or right wing... |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Kiwi Guest Date: 09 Feb 08 - 10:01 PM There was an Ausie song around the time of the Vietnam war. "The F1 Double 1." |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Santa Date: 10 Feb 08 - 10:32 AM The Fleet Air Arm has a number of songs involving aeroplanes, not surprisingly. There is a book - the title escapes me - on sale at the Fleet Air Arm Museum. Many are just parodies of current songs: Any Old Iron about the Fulmar, for example. Oh, Mr. Fairey about the Barracuda. The best known one is also in Cyril Tawney's Grey Funnel Line book. The A25 Song. The A25 is an aircraft accident report, and the song has a large number of verses from different periods. example. The batsman says low, but I always fly higher. I come in too fast and I prang my Seafire The guys in the goofers all think I am green But I get my commission from Supermarine! (chorus) Cracking show! I'm alive! But I still have to render my A25. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Greg B Date: 10 Feb 08 - 05:27 PM I always loved this verse from the A25 song--- (In the Digital Tradition) "I thought I was coming in high enough but I was fifty feet up when the batsman gave "cut", And loud in my earphones the sweet angels sang: "'Float, float, float, float, float, float, float, float, float, float, PRANG!" ...having quite a few hours in an airplane that liked to act that way. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Gerry Date: 10 Feb 08 - 06:21 PM I assume the Guthrie song about Lindbergh a few posts up is to the tune of White House Blues, http://www.mudcat.org/@displaysong.cfm?SongID=7842 |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: open mike Date: 11 Feb 08 - 12:41 AM the Alan Parsons Band --On Air (this group was formerly the Alan Parsons project) has an album all about flight which has several flying songs and one of the earliest cd-rom music disc combinations..it had an entire encyclopedia of the history of flight and airplanes contained in the c.d. On Air covers the history of airborne exploration, from the mythological flights of Daedalus and Icarus, to Leonardo da Vinci's designs of flying machines, to hot air ballooning, and finally space exploration. www.amazon.com/Air-Alan-Parsons/dp/B000007R16 |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: open mike Date: 11 Feb 08 - 12:45 AM Nancy Griffith has an album called Flyer with a song about a pilot she met in an airport when each was flying in different directions. and as Gordon lightfoot says in a previously mentioned song "you can't jump a jet plane like you can a freight train..." |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Volgadon Date: 11 Feb 08 - 01:42 AM What was the Al Stewart song from Year of the Cat? |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Gene Date: 11 Feb 08 - 02:07 AM The Last Flight of Will Rodgers and Wiley Post/I forget-RRDM? Wow... The Historic Flight of Gary Powers/Red River Dave McEnery L.A. International Airport/Susan Raye Boogie Woogie Flying Cloud/Hank Snow Johnny Zero/Merle Kilgore |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: ossonflags Date: 11 Feb 08 - 03:58 AM Deportees (The plane wreck at Los Gatos) is the full title ofthe guthroe song. No one has metioned the great kieth marsden song; "left. left, right steady man" |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Volgadon Date: 11 Feb 08 - 04:53 AM Meir Ariel "Terminal je taime". A weird but famous Israeli song about a man who goes to airports to watch planes take off. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Dean T Date: 18 Feb 08 - 08:19 AM Hi Barry T. I need to get hold of you regarding some music. Can you go offline? deant AT rovinge DOT com |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,SenorChach Date: 17 Jul 08 - 09:07 PM I can't believe no one mentioned Nazareth - This Flight Tonight |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Rowan Date: 18 Jul 08 - 12:08 AM Perhaps the Dambusters' March didn't have enough words to qualify? |
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Subject: Lyr Add - The Green Berets From: Jay777 Date: 18 Jul 08 - 04:18 AM Another new-to-me thread. SouthernCelt mentioned this song, so may as well post the lyrics. "Berets" is pronounced the US way, with the emphasis on the last syllable: "bur-RAY" THE GREEN BERETS, lyrics by SSgt. Barry Sadler, music Robin Moore Fighting soldiers from the sky, Fearless men who jump and die, Men who mean just what they say, The brave men of the Greet Berets. CHORUS: Silver wings upon their chests, These are men, America's best, One hundred men we'll test today, But only three win the Green Beret. Trained to live off nature's land, Trained to combat hand to hand. Men who fight by night and day, Courage take from the Green Berets. CHORUS Back at home a young wife waits, Her Green Beret has met his fate, He has died for those oppressed, Leaving her this last request: "Put silver wings on my son's chest, Make him one of America's best, He'll be a man they'll test one day, Have his turn to win the Green Beret." This is another of those songs which is probably not considered PC these days, and I personally don't like songs that glorify war. However, it's a good, rousing, tune, and reflects the attitude of many people in the mid-60s, before the anti-Vietnam War campaign really got going. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Genie Date: 18 Jul 08 - 08:19 PM The Letter - "Gimme a ticket on an aeroplane, Ain't got time to take a fast plane. Lonely days are gone, My baby just wrote me a letter ... ." |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Genie Date: 18 Jul 08 - 08:35 PM Praise The Lord And Pass The Ammunition also, Fly Me To The Moon |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Janice in NJ Date: 19 Jul 08 - 12:28 PM Did anyone mention Early Morning Rain by Gordon Lightfoot? |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Stringsinger Date: 20 Jul 08 - 12:42 PM Elmer Hawkes from Boston area wrote "Orville Wright". |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Arkie Date: 20 Jul 08 - 05:23 PM I did not see this one. I think it is in the Digital Tradition database, but I first found it in a paperback songbook many years ago. Teterboro Tower Teterboro Tower (Oscar Brand & Jac Holzman) Teterboro Tower this is Piper 2-0-2 I'm turning on my downwind leg, My fabric's come unglued The stick is burbling in my hand, I think I feel a stall & a bug's caught in my Pilot, my gauges don't read at all Now listen Piper 2-0-2, this is Teterboro Tower I cannot raise the crash crew cause it is their coffee hour & you're not cleared in the pattern, don't try a landing yet Just circle for departure while I mooch a cigarette Help Teterboro Tower, this is Piper 2-0-2 I'm sweating out this landing, I don't know what to do My superhomer's on the blink, & your voice is fading fast Please clear my on my final, or this flight may be my last Now listen Piper 2-0-2, This is Teterboro Tower I'd like to help you buddy, but I just don't have the power The F.A.A's your only hope, so if you've time to spare Just file a form in triplicate & sign the questionaire Teterboro Tower, this is Piper 2-0-2 I'm in Secaucus Hospital & I owe it all to you I'm sorry that I cracked her up & messed your pretty field We'll try it once around again if ever I get healed From Folk Songs for Fun -by Oscar Brand - Hollis Music - 1961 Some slightly more militant lyrics are available (also on an Oscar Brand LP, as I recall) under the title "Itazuke Tower." The primary difference is that this version is geared to post-WWII Japan and involves an Air Force P-51 Mustang. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Arkie Date: 20 Jul 08 - 05:33 PM Harry Chapin's song Taxi mentioned learning to fly and another stretch of sorts is David Bowie's Major Tom, which is about a space ship or either getting high some other way. |
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Subject: ADD: The U.S. Air Force From: Genie Date: 21 Jul 08 - 11:49 AM Nobody's mentioned the USAF song (originally the song of the US Army Air Corps), THE U.S. AIR FORCE Off We Go Into The Wild Blue Yonder, Climbing high into the sun. Here they come, zooming to meet our thunder. At 'em, boys, give 'er the gun. Down we dive, shooting our flames from under, Off with one hell of a roar. We live in fame or go down in flame - Hey! - Nothing can stop the US Air Force. [Nothing can stop the Army Air Corps] |
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Subject: Songs involving Airplanes: Ebony Eyes From: Genie Date: 21 Jul 08 - 11:56 AM I see that "Wild Blue Yonder" was already mentioned (my "Find" button only scaned one page), as was Lightfoot's "Early Morning Rain." The Everly Brothers' "Ebony Eyes" was also mentioned, but here are the lyrics: EBONY EYES (recorded by The Everly Brothers) On a weekend pass I wouldn't have had time To get home and marry that baby of mine, So I went to the chaplain and he authorized Me to send for my Ebony Eyes. My Ebony Eyes. was coming to me From out of the skies on Flight 1203. In an hour or two I would whisper "I do" To my beautiful Ebony Eyes. SPOKEN: The plane was way overdue so I went inside to the airlines desk and I said "Sir, I wonder why 1203 is so late?" He said "Aww, they probably took off late or they may have run into some turbulent weather and had to alter their course." I went back outside and I waited at the gate and I watched the beacon light from the control tower as it whipped through the dark ebony skies as if it were searching for (my ebony eyes.) And then came the announcement over the loudspeaker- "Would those having relatives or friends on flight number 1203 please report to the chapel across the street at once." Then I felt a burning break deep inside, And I knew the heavenly ebony skies Had taken my life's most wonderful prize, My beautiful Ebony Eyes. If I ever get to heaven I'll bet The first angel I'll recognize, She'll smile at me and I know she will be My beautiful Ebony Eyes. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Genie Date: 21 Jul 08 - 11:59 AM "Live Like You Were Dying" (Tim McGraw?) The chorus starts out, "I went sky diving ... " |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Genie Date: 21 Jul 08 - 12:03 PM Tattie Bogle posted this: "'He jumped from 40,000 feet without a parachute, x3 And he ain't gonna jump no more. Chorus: Glory, glory, what a terrible way to die, x3 And he ain't gonna jump no more He landed on the tarmac like a lump of strawberry jam, x3 And he ain't gonna....... They scooped him off the tarmac like a ...' At which point the memory fails ... " Ah, yes, we sang that song too, except we sang the chorus as: "Gory, gory! What a helluva way to die!" |
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Subject: Sky Pilot From: Genie Date: 21 Jul 08 - 12:19 PM This song isn't literally about an airplane pilot, but the imagery is there. SKY PILOT (John Weider/Danny McCulloch/ Eric Burdon/Vic Briggs/Barry Jenkins) (Recorded by Eric Burden & The Animals; Album: The Twain Shall Meet) He blesses the boys as they stand in line, The smell of gun grease and the bayonets they shine. He's there to help them all that he can, To make them feel wanted he's a good holy man. Sky pilot, Sky pilot, How high can you fly? You'll never, never, never reach the sky. He smiles at the young soldiers, Tells them it's all right. He knows of their fear in the forthcoming fight. Soon there'll be blood and many will die, Mothers and fathers back home, they will cry. Sky pilot, Sky pilot, How high can you fly? You'll never, never, never reach the sky. He mumbles a prayer and it ends with a smile, The order is given, they move down the line, But he's still behind and he'll meditate, But it won't stop the bleeding or ease the hate. As the young men move out into the battle zone He feels good; with God you're never alone. He feels tired and he lays on his bed, Hopes the men will find courage in the words that he said. Sky pilot, Sky pilot, How high can you fly? You'll never, never, never reach the sky. You're soldiers of God, you must understand The fate of your country is in your young hands, May God give you strength, Do your job real well. If it all was worth it Only time it will tell. In the morning they return With tears in their eyes. The stench of death drifts up to the skies. A soldier so ill looks at the sky pilot, Remembers the words "Thou shalt not kill." Sky pilot, Sky pilot, How high can you fly? You'll never, never, never reach the sky. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Val Date: 21 Jul 08 - 12:54 PM It's absolutely not a "folk song" by any stretch of the imagination (just like many of the earlier suggestions), but I rather like "Icarus: Borne On Wings Of Steel" by Kansas. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: LesB Date: 21 Jul 08 - 07:24 PM 'Have you seen the saucers' by Jefferson Airplane. Seriously though ;The left left right steady man' by Keith Marsden about a bomb aimer, & Tom Bliss has written an excelllant song about his fathers exploits in a Blenham during the war. Cheers Les |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Joe_F Date: 21 Jul 08 - 08:28 PM There are 30 9/11 songs in _September 11, 2001: A Memorial Songbook_ (M.A.S.S. F.I.L.C., 2001), including several about United 93. |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Dave Illingworth Date: 22 Jul 08 - 03:19 AM AMELIA EARHEART's LAST FLIGHT (Red River Dave McEnery 1939) recorded by many people. Loudon Wainwright's FEAR WITH FLYING (1978) "I'm not afraid of flying - just afraid of crashing". The great Lightnin' Hopkins recorded at least one song about his fear of flying, Fine British singer-songwriter and rocker, Mickey Jupp, wrote YOU'LL NEVER GET ME UP IN ONE OF THOSE (1978) On a non-musical note, I read that the European Union has banned the great DC3 Dakota from passenger carrying, due to more of their silly regulations. For over 60 years the aircraft has had the reputation of the safest aircraft ever built. There is a song to be written there........... |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Tangledwood Date: 22 Jul 08 - 04:54 PM Kristina Olsen: The Yellow Piper Heart upon the Hill (they say an RAF went down . . .etc) James Keelaghan: Cold Missouri Waters (smoke jumpers from a C47) Dare we mention American Pie? (the name of Buddy Holly's aircraft) |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Joe G Date: 22 Jul 08 - 04:58 PM Homecoming Queen by Robb Johnson - one of his best recent songs about a stewardess |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: GUEST,Joseph de Culver City Date: 22 Jul 08 - 05:45 PM Having a heck of a time finding lyrics for this one. I'll have to check the CD when I can... Steam Powered Areoplane-John Hartford Was Major Tom in an airplane? Will make a note to ask David Bowie. (Right!) |
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Subject: RE: Songs involving Airplanes From: Leadfingers Date: 23 Jul 08 - 01:47 PM 100 |
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