Songs about Aviators
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The Bold Aviator
What about 'The Bold Aviator...'
I know some versions of this, partially, which I've not come across on the internet:
'he spat out a valve and a gasket,
and stirred in the sump where he lay'...
any takes?
I know some versions of this, partially, which I've not come across on the internet:
'he spat out a valve and a gasket,
and stirred in the sump where he lay'...
any takes?
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Re: Songs about Aviators
The version I've read goes as follows:
A poor aviator lay dying
At the end of a bright summer's day
His comrades had gathered about him
To carry his fragments away
The airplane was piled on his wishbone
His Hotchkiss was wrapped round his head
He wore a spark-plug on each elbow
'Twas plain he would shortly be dead
He spit out a valve and a gasket
And stirred in the sump where he lay
And then to his wondering comrades
These brave parting words he did say
"Take the magneto out of my stomach,
And the butterfly valve off my neck,
Extract from my liver the crankshaft,
There are lots of good parts in this wreck"
"Take the manifold out of my larynx,
And the cylinders out of my brain,
Take the piston rods out of my kidneys,
And assemble the engine again."
There is a later variation:
Oh, the bold aviator was dying
And as 'neath the wreckage he lay, he lay
To the sobbing mechanics about him
These last parting words he did say
"Take the cylinders out of my kidneys
The connecting rod out of my brain, my brain
From the small of my back get the crankshaft
And assemble the engine again"
Etc.
A poor aviator lay dying
At the end of a bright summer's day
His comrades had gathered about him
To carry his fragments away
The airplane was piled on his wishbone
His Hotchkiss was wrapped round his head
He wore a spark-plug on each elbow
'Twas plain he would shortly be dead
He spit out a valve and a gasket
And stirred in the sump where he lay
And then to his wondering comrades
These brave parting words he did say
"Take the magneto out of my stomach,
And the butterfly valve off my neck,
Extract from my liver the crankshaft,
There are lots of good parts in this wreck"
"Take the manifold out of my larynx,
And the cylinders out of my brain,
Take the piston rods out of my kidneys,
And assemble the engine again."
There is a later variation:
Oh, the bold aviator was dying
And as 'neath the wreckage he lay, he lay
To the sobbing mechanics about him
These last parting words he did say
"Take the cylinders out of my kidneys
The connecting rod out of my brain, my brain
From the small of my back get the crankshaft
And assemble the engine again"
Etc.
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Re: Songs about Aviators
As related by my late father who served with 230 ASRU during WW2:
(Sung to the tune "The Church's One Foundation")
We are the Air-Sea Rescue,
No f*****g good are we.
The only time you'll see us
Is breakfast, dinner and tea.
And when we sight your dinghy,
We'll all stand up and say
Per Adua Ad Asbestos,
F**k you Jack, I'm OK.
(Sung to the tune "The Church's One Foundation")
We are the Air-Sea Rescue,
No f*****g good are we.
The only time you'll see us
Is breakfast, dinner and tea.
And when we sight your dinghy,
We'll all stand up and say
Per Adua Ad Asbestos,
F**k you Jack, I'm OK.
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Re: Songs about Aviators
How about a whole album. Captain Lockheed and his Starfighters.All about the F104G ...." G for for Germany Herr Prime Minister ."..... "Want to buy a Starfighter ? ....... buy an acre of ground and wait."
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Re: Songs about Aviators
The Dying Aviator is quoted in Biggles, and published in the 1930s.
Every damn recordbreaking aviator of the 1920s it seems had a host of songs - many (thankfully) shortlived pennned about them. It was an occupational hazard!
I've read (can't remember where) that there were over 100 songs about 'Lindy' and about the same about 'Wonderful Amy'.
Every damn recordbreaking aviator of the 1920s it seems had a host of songs - many (thankfully) shortlived pennned about them. It was an occupational hazard!
I've read (can't remember where) that there were over 100 songs about 'Lindy' and about the same about 'Wonderful Amy'.
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For Saab Dastard and others, "The Masters of the Air" by Oscar Brand - copied from memory as I cannot find the lyrics anywhere...
When man was bound unto the earth, and knew not how to fly,
The wings of Otto Lilienthal, went flashing across the sky,
But then like Icarus of old, and others un-renown,
He spread his gliding wings to high, and so came crashing down.
T'was Samuel Langley's models, lead the way to powered flight,
His motors were in miniature, his planes were tiny kites,
Although his large models brought him failure and despair,
He showed the world that man could fly the highway of the air.
In 1903 in Kitty Hawk,a man named Orville Wright,
Flew 40 yards to demonstrate, controlled and power flight,
The brothers Wright were first in flight, and often flew again,
Creating for a waiting world, the first successful plane.
Then others learned to build and fly, experiment and probe,
Some Navy men flew across the sea, the army spanned the globe,
And in 1927, on a misty day in May,
Charles Lindbergh flew from out the blue, to land at Le Bourget.
A 1,000 brave men to wing, and sailed above the clouds,
To risk their lives at country fairs, to entertain the crowds,
Around the world went Willey Post aboard the Winnie Mae,
To test the flying instruments, he knew we’d need some day.
Such men as Charles E Yeager, took the X1 off the ground,
To jet propel it faster than the thrusting speed of sound,
Sikorsky his rotor, Bill Odem and his Beech,
They snared the wide horizon and brought it into reach.
They rose into the upper air to rise, to fly, to fall,
A lonely breed in mind and deed, yet each a part of all,
To knock with pride on heavens door, the lonely heights to bare,
The Masters of the air…
When man was bound unto the earth, and knew not how to fly,
The wings of Otto Lilienthal, went flashing across the sky,
But then like Icarus of old, and others un-renown,
He spread his gliding wings to high, and so came crashing down.
T'was Samuel Langley's models, lead the way to powered flight,
His motors were in miniature, his planes were tiny kites,
Although his large models brought him failure and despair,
He showed the world that man could fly the highway of the air.
In 1903 in Kitty Hawk,a man named Orville Wright,
Flew 40 yards to demonstrate, controlled and power flight,
The brothers Wright were first in flight, and often flew again,
Creating for a waiting world, the first successful plane.
Then others learned to build and fly, experiment and probe,
Some Navy men flew across the sea, the army spanned the globe,
And in 1927, on a misty day in May,
Charles Lindbergh flew from out the blue, to land at Le Bourget.
A 1,000 brave men to wing, and sailed above the clouds,
To risk their lives at country fairs, to entertain the crowds,
Around the world went Willey Post aboard the Winnie Mae,
To test the flying instruments, he knew we’d need some day.
Such men as Charles E Yeager, took the X1 off the ground,
To jet propel it faster than the thrusting speed of sound,
Sikorsky his rotor, Bill Odem and his Beech,
They snared the wide horizon and brought it into reach.
They rose into the upper air to rise, to fly, to fall,
A lonely breed in mind and deed, yet each a part of all,
To knock with pride on heavens door, the lonely heights to bare,
The Masters of the air…
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Re: Songs about Aviators
Originally Posted by Saab Dastard
So, apart from Charles Lindbergh, can anyone think of any aviators about whom songs were written?
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On BBC Radio 2, 10 Jan, 7pm, available to listen to for about a week on the web, Desmond Carrington played an hour of aviation themed music.
Included about 25 mins in was a wonderful '30s tune 'Amy, Wonderful Amy', by the Jack Hylton Ochestra. The song was complete with purring Gypsy Moth in the background, and a verbal interlude describing her flying... 'Oh no, she going to CRASH!! Oh no she is'nt!' I kid you not. Pure gold.
Included about 25 mins in was a wonderful '30s tune 'Amy, Wonderful Amy', by the Jack Hylton Ochestra. The song was complete with purring Gypsy Moth in the background, and a verbal interlude describing her flying... 'Oh no, she going to CRASH!! Oh no she is'nt!' I kid you not. Pure gold.
You want it when:
I still have Oscar Brands "Wild Blue Yonder" on vinyl. I did have his "Out of the Wild Blue" but it came a cropper in a house fire. I keep meaning to resurrect my turntable to record analogue to digital but have not got around to it yet. One of these days.
I still have Oscar Brands "Wild Blue Yonder" on vinyl. I did have his "Out of the Wild Blue" but it came a cropper in a house fire. I keep meaning to resurrect my turntable to record analogue to digital but have not got around to it yet. One of these days.
