Flying Training

DESCRIPTION: "When this rotten term is over, Oh, how happy I shall be! No more sitting on the tarmac, No more circuiting for me. No more taking off and landing, No more waiting on the grass, And we'll kiss the flight commander As he hands us our last pass"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: pilot derivative | training
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, p. 98, "Flying Training" (1 short text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "What a Friend We Have in Jesus" (tune) and references there
NOTES [53 words]: Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook list this as being sung to the tune of "What a Friend We Have in Jesus," and this is certainly true, but I strongly suspect the immediate inspiration was "When This Bloody War Is Over."
I also wonder if the last line sometimes used a rhyme-word with one fewer letters than "pass." - RBW
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File: WJL098

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