To the Stars

DESCRIPTION: "There are songs they sing in the army, Songs in the navy too; But we sing a song that rolls along, The song of the boys in blue." The airmen are "Zooming up boys to the stars!" "These words will guide us, 'Through adversity to the stars.'"
AUTHOR: Harold Walker (source: Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear)
EARLIEST DATE: c. 1941 (Bert Pearl, The Happy Gang book of war songs, according to Worldcat)
KEYWORDS: soldier technology nonballad war
FOUND IN: Canada
REFERENCES (1 citation):
Hopkins-SongsFromTheFrontAndRear, pp. 72-73, "To the Stars" (1 text, 1 tune)
Roud #29424
File: Hopk072

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