Ballad of Sulaiman, The

DESCRIPTION: "In the year anno domini one-nine-two-four 'Twas just outside Sulaiman there started a war." They send off the airmen to bomb the town. One crew runs out of gas and lands in enemy territory, with deadly results, because they've "no bombs at all"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: pilot technology war crash disaster death warning
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, pp. 101-103, "The Ballad of Sulaiman" (1 text, 1 tune)
NOTES [56 words]: Sulaimaniyah is in the Kurdish region of Iraq, not too far from the border with Iran. Like most places in Iraq, it has a fairly bloody history in recent years -- and also in the 1920s and 1930s, as the British tried to control the area. Back then, the Kurds were the enemy of the western powers; that has of course been reversed since. - RBW
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