Which He'll Never Do No More

DESCRIPTION: "He was diving at the Hun at two hundred miles an hour, When his wing tore off like a leaf, They found him in the wreck with his hand upon the throttle...." Another pilot plows into a hill in the fog. A mother mourns her lost son
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: pilot death crash mother
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, pp. 74-76, "Which He'll Never Do No More" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [36 words]: Yes, the words DO sound like they derive from the "The Wreck of Old 97" [Laws G2] or one of the other "Ship That Never Returned" derivatives, but it is printed to a different tune. Maybe it was transcribed wrong. - RBW
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