Heavy Bombers, The

DESCRIPTION: "We are the heavy bombers, we try to do our bit, We fly through concentration of flak with sky all lit." Even if their bombs miss, they do damage. Bad weather makes flying hard. Navigating to heaven in hard; Hades is "just like S.H.Q."
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook)
KEYWORDS: technology pilot war Hell
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REFERENCES (2 citations):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, pp. 182-183, "The Heavy Bombers" (1 text, 1 tune)
Page-ForGawdsakeDontTakeMe, p. 71, "37th Squadron Song" (1 text)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "The Church's One Foundation" (tune) and references there
cf. "From Greenland's Icy Mountains" (tune)
NOTES [33 words]: The Page-ForGawdsakeDontTakeMe version does briefly mention the "thirty-seventh" (squadron), but most of it is generic; I suspect Page's version is a more particularized form of a generic song. - RBW
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File: WJL182

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