Ten Little Pilot Boys

DESCRIPTION: "Ten little Pilot Boys, one shot a fancy line, Fifth columnists were listening, and then there were nine." And so on, as each of the ten pilots makes a security error and is "wiped off the map Because some people will not learn to shut their bloody traps"
AUTHOR: unknown
EARLIEST DATE: 1967 (Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook); supposedly from 1943
KEYWORDS: pilot death derivative warning
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REFERENCES (1 citation):
Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook, pp. 216-217, "Ten Little Pilot Boys" (1 text, 1 tune)
CROSS-REFERENCES:
cf. "Ten Little Injuns" (tune)
cf. "Ten Little Furies" (tune, form)
NOTES [60 words]: Ward-Jackson/Lucas-AirmansSongBook lists the tune of this as "Ten Little Nigger Boys," which I believe is the item we've indexed as "Ten Little Injuns." The idea is so similar to "Ten Little Furies" that I almost lumped them -- but this is apparently a deliberate rewrite designed to encourage pilots to be careful with secrets, so I've kept them separate. - RBW
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File: WJL217

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