When That Dawn Patrol Sets Out

DESCRIPTION: "When the Dawn Patrol sets out to cross the lines, I'll be right there, I'll do my share." The Germans are pursuing; "My bus seems like a snail." Can't they have pity on him? No; "I'm with them still, against my will... For we're on the early show."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, which dates the song to 1917)
KEYWORDS: pilot technology battle derivative
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, p. 24, "When That Dawn Patrol Sets Out" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Alabama Chu-chu" (tune, according to Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, but see notes)
NOTES [83 words]: Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook lists the tune of this as "Alabama Chu-chu." I cannot find a song by that title, either under that spelling or under the spelling "Alabama Choo Choo." There is an Irving Berlin song, "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'," recorded by Arthur Collins and Byron G. Harlan, recorded 1912. It appears that this is indeed the source song -- but the verse, as listed by Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, is to the chorus, not the verse, of the Berlin song. - RBW
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