Another Undercarriage Wouldn't Do Us Any Harm

DESCRIPTION: "Oh, there was a little pilot and he flew an R.E.8, He tried to make a landing but he flattened out too late." The observer says, Another undercarriage wouldn't do us any harm. Mechanics, conscientious objectors, even barmaids, could use another whatever
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: pilot crash drink derivative | mechanic plane
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, p. 66, "Another Undercarriage Wouldn't Do Us Any Harm" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Another Little Drink Wouldn't Do Us Any Harm" (tune) and references there
NOTES [44 words]: "Another Undercarriage Wouldn't Do Us Any Harm" and "Another Thousand Revs" are both World War I songs with the same tune and a lot of the same words; they are so close that I seriously thought about lumping them. I strongly suspect they exchanged verses at time. - RBE
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