Bring Back My Bomber and Me

DESCRIPTION: "One night as I lay on my pillow, My batman awoke me and said, 'I say, there are ships in the Channel.'" Despite bad weather, the bombers go out, but they never find the enemy. Ground control insists they were there, "And I leave you to guess what I said"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook); reportedly from 1942
KEYWORDS: pilot ship storm
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, pp. 207-208, "Bring Back My Bomber and Me" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean" (tune) and references there
File: WJL207

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