Lyr Req: a song about bombing libia?

Subject: Lyr Req: a song about bombing libia?
From: GUEST,skippy
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 07:47 AM

Help please,
i'm trying to find the words for a song written after an american pilot decsribed bombing Libia as "My lifes greatest day"
I can't look it up as I don't know the title!
Regards to you all & thanks to any off you that attended White horse folk festival

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: a song about bombing libia?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 07:57 AM

It was to the tune of 'My Bonny Bairn-i-o' (Oh, the shearing's not for me my bonny bairn-i-o etc.) I remember Ian Walker did it in the 80's but I don't know if he wrote it or if he still does it now:-(

The phrase, if memory serves me well, is 'My life's greatest thrill'.

Hope this helps

Dave the Gnome

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: a song about bombing libia?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 07:59 AM

Should have known it was here shouldn't I;-)

See this.

:D

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: a song about bombing libia?
From: Turlough
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 08:02 AM

Aw, Dave beat me to it! ;-)

I was just going to say the same thing (more or less). By the way, Skippy, Lybia is spelled with a 'y'. And the search engine looks for words in the text as well, not only in the title...

Turlough

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: a song about bombing libia?
From: McGrath of Harlow
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 10:14 AM

Lybia is spelled with a 'y'.

But not in that place - Libya is how it's been spelt since Roman times.

Spellinmg isn't that important - but I think it's only good manners to make sure to get the correct spelling for countries we bomb. And it avoids unfortunate misunderstandings such as mixing up Iran and Iraq and Gambia and Zambia.

I only hope Bush hasn't got Libya and Liberia confused. Whose job would it be to tell him?

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: a song about bombing libia?
From: Art Thieme
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 11:11 AM

Soooo, why should anyone in their right mind ever contemplate bombing anyones labia???

Art Thieme

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: a song about bombing libia?
From: Bill D
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 01:51 PM

now, Art..it was spelled correctly for you right above..*grin*...

(wonder what he does with linguistic discussions of "bi-labial fricatives"?)

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: a song about bombing libia?
From: Dave the Gnome
Date: 18 Aug 03 - 02:12 PM

Didn't someone invade Falkirk in the 1980's?

:D

Subject: RE: Lyr Req: a song about bombing libia?
From: Turlough
Date: 20 Aug 03 - 08:00 AM

McGrath,

well, that should teach me for being so cheeky all the time! I try to comfort myself with the thought that another 33,100 people spelled LibYa with the Y in the wrong place (2,230,000 spelled it correctly, at least on Google).

Thanks for the lesson, anyway ;-)

Turlough