Song of 55 Squadron, A

DESCRIPTION: "Look at all those fellows clad in pale blue, Aren't they awful dressy, don't you like the hue?" Despite the clothing, the blue-clad fellows are in the R.A.F. They and their sister squadrons used to fight Germans. Now they deliver mail
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: clothes colors soldier | R.A.F. uniform
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, p. 88, "A Song of 55 Squadron" (1 text, tune referenced)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "On the 5:15" (tune)
NOTES [137 words]: The melody for this is listed by Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook as "The 5.15." This is pretty clearly a reference to the 1914 song "On the 5:15" with words by Stanley Murphy and music by Henry I. Marshall, which became known due to a 1915 recording by Billy Murray. Wikipedia gives the first verse and chorus as follows:
Talk about your subway, talk about your "L"
Talk about your streetcar lines as well
But when you're living out where the fields are green
You've got to go home on the 5:15.
You leave the office at five o'clock,
Stop at the butcher's for a steak or a chop,
Get the evening paper and a magazine
And you run like the dickens for the 5:15.
Oh the 5:15 -- Hear the whistle blowing!
Oh the 5:15 -- Your "Ingersoll" is slow!
Oh the 5:15 -- Down the track she's going,
BANG! go the gates on the 5:15! - RBW
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File: WJL088

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