Songs from WWII

[flarepilot]

joyride, you are welcome...I think it is available on DVD but it may be in the USA format of NTSC not PAL.

but its out there.

I agree , not the best film, but if you remember it 25 years later, it made an impression upon you.

try seeing the film, "the purple heart" about torturing and trying in a civilian court some doolittle raiders.

[teeteringhead]

"I love you in your negligee,

I love you in your nightie,

But when moonlight flits across your t*ts,

by Christ all F*cking mighty!"

...which can also be sung to the air of "Amazing Grace", with an optional/alternative first line:

"Amazing Grace, I love your face...." etc etc

[astir 8]

Going back to Pigboat's post about a song with aero engine background noise


.....Errr, wasn't that Bomben auf England???

[Nopax,thanx]

When we lived in the States Dad bought Oscar Brands LP "The Wild Blue Yonder" featuring 16 Air Corps songs. Bit of a collectors item now, had such classics as "Save a Fighter Pilot's Ass" and "Itazuke Tower"....most of them involved dying in horrible ways at the controls of some old clunker or being shot down - lots of gallows humour prevalent in those days, of course.

There are a few samples on here - the 1956 versions are the ones from the LP, takes me right back...

The Wild Blue Yonder - Oscar Brand,The Roger Wilco Four | Songs, Reviews, Credits, Awards | AllMusic

[flarepilot]

those songs, like "THE COPILOTs SONG" is available on a youtube search

[alisoncc]

My favourite would have to be:

He jumped from forty thousand feet without a parachute
repeat.
repeat
And he ain't gonna jump no more

Glory, Glory what a hell of a way to die
repeat.
repeat
And he ain't gonna jump no more

They scraped him off the runway like a pound of strawberry jam
repeat.
repeat
And he ain't gonna jump no more

They sent him home to Mother (in a jam jar)
repeat.
repeat
And he ain't gonna jump no more

She put him on the mantlepiece for all the friends to see.
repeat.
repeat
And he ain't gonna jump no more

Etc.


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[Churchills Ghost]

This song always puts a smile on my face!



Private Jones came in one night
Full of cheer and very bright
He'd been out all day upon the spree
He bumped into Sergeant Smeck
Put his arms around his neck
And in his ear he whispered tenderly.....

Kiss me goodnight, Sergeant-Major
Tuck me in my little wooden bed
We all love you, Sergeant-Major,
When we hear you bawling, "Show a leg!"

Don't forget to wake me in the morning
And bring me 'round a nice hot cup of tea
Kiss me goodnight Sergeant-Major
Sergeant-Major, be a mother to me

Kiss me goodnight, Sergeant-Major
Tuck me in my little wooden bed
We all love you, Sergeant-Major
Even when your neck grows rather red

Don't forget to wake me in the morning
And bring me 'round a nice hot cup of tea
Kiss me goodnight, Sergeant-Major
Sergeant-Major, be a mother to me

[Fareastdriver]

I first heard these songs as an LP in 1962. They are II WW songs from the USAAF. Still available to download.

http://www.discogs.com/Oscar-Brand-T...elease/2967945