Someone well-known to us on "Military Aviation" this morning led me on a trail to a link which gave me a You Tube vocal rendering of this heartrending ballad. (My apologies to him for not noting his name or what Thread). So I appeal to him, if he reads this, please make himself known to us again, so that I can thank him for a good chortle, and please put in the link again, as I heartily recommend clicking on to it.
Don't know how many crimes I've committed, lifting this from You Tube without permission, but will throw myself on mercy of the court and hope for the best. (And I do still have my dollar-silver wings of an old Army Air Corps Pilot which should entitle me to some clemency !)
Here we go:
Danny42C
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Oscar Brand - "Save a fighter pilot's ass" Published on Sep 22, 2013
"Oh, Halleliua, Halleliua
Throw a nickel on the grass--Save a fighter pilot's ass.
Oh, Halleliua, Oh, Halleliua
Throw a nickel on the grass and you'll be saved.
I was cruising down the Yalu, doing six and twenty per
When a call came from the Major, Oh won 't you save me sir?
Got three flak holes in my wing tips, and my tanks ain't got no gas.
Mayday, mayday, mayday, I got six MIGS on my ass.
I shot my traffic pattern, and to me it looked all right,
The airspeed read one-thirty, I really racked it tight!
Then the airframe gave a shudder, the engine gave a wheeze,
Mayday, mayday, mayday, spin instructions please.
It was split S on my Bomb run, and I got too God Damn low
But I pressed that bloody button, and I let those babies go
Sucked the stick back fast as blazes, when I hit a hight speed stall
I won't see my mother when the work all done next fall.
They sent me down to Pyongyang, the brief said "no ack ack"
by the time that I arrived there, my wings was mostly flak.
Then my engine coughed and sputtered, it was too cut up to fly
Mayday, mayday, mayday, I'm too young to die.
I bailed out from the Sabre, and the landing came out fine
With my E and E equipment, I made for our front line.
When I opened up ration, to see what was in it,
The God damn quartermaster why he filled the tin with grit.
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EDIT:
Found it! (Fareastdriver, of course !)
Jet Blast>If you had to be in WWII, which bit would you choose?>Page 5>#86
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