Excelsior Up To Date

DESCRIPTION: "The shades of night were falling fast As to the aerodrome there passed A youth... Who bore aloft this strange device: KEEP FLYING!." He heads for his plane while being warned of rusty engines, bad struts, etc. He crashes but keeps calling KEEP FLYING
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Nettleingham-TommysTunes)
KEYWORDS: technology pilot injury wreck
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Nettleingham-TommysTunes, #78, "'Excelsior' Up to Date" (1 text)
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, p. 33, "Excelsior Up to Date" (1 text)
Roud #10751
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Upidee, Upidah (I)" (lyrics)
NOTES [30 words]: Roud lumps this with "Upidee, Upidah (I)," which is also a derivative of Longfellow's "Excelsior." But this was clearly written with a different end in mind, so I split them. - RBW
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File: NeTT078

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