Esprit de Corps

DESCRIPTION: "Wrap me up in my old yellow jacket, The one in which I used to soar." The aviator wants to prepare to fly. He seeds the Hun. He is hit. He manages to bring the plane down, but dies. His mates hope he is "where the Huns cease from troubling"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1917 (Nettleingham-TommysTunes)
KEYWORDS: pilot technology war death
FOUND IN: Britain
REFERENCES (2 citations):
Nettleingham-TommysTunes, #82, "Esprit de Corps" (1 text, tune referenced)
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, pp. 55-56, "My Old Yellow Jacket" (1 text, tune referenced)
Roud #10808
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Wrap Me Up in My Tarpaulin Jacket" (tune) and references there
cf. "The Dying Lancer" (tune)
File: NeTT082

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