Yarn of Twenty-Two, The

DESCRIPTION: "'Twas on a drome within our shore, From here to there but a span That I found... An Elderly Aerial Man." The old man tells how, during the Great War, so many men were killed that he gradually became Observer, Pilot, C.O, and held every other office too
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: pilot soldier humorous derivative death
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, pp. 83-85, "The Yarn of 'Twenty-Two'" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Fate of the Nancy Bell" (source of parody
File: WJL083

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