AUTHOR/COMPILER: Lt. Col. Tub Matheson

BRANCH OF SERVICE: Army Aviation

UNIT/AGENCY: 161^st Army Aviation Helicopter Pilots, Australia

NATIONALITY: Australia

DATE:

PLACE:

SOURCE: Rob Willis

NOTE: Includes a photocopy of a note reminding someone of the lyrics to the "singing telegram".

This is a manuscript, rather than a songbook.

LOCATION: LMF files

CONTENTS:

Oh Oakey

The Aviators Prayer

On Top of Mount Garrie

Little Brown Mouse

The Moonlight Pooper

The Bargirl's Lament (Cheap Charlie)

You Could Hear the Gunners Shooting

Tune: The Big Iron

Bomb the Town

Tune: Strafe the Town and Kill the People

The Ballad of Billie Joe

Tune: Ghost Riders in the Sky

Green Flight Pay

Down Among the Sheltering Palms

I Don't Want to Join the Army

They're Moving On (this is not the standard Korean War version)

Does Your Uniform Lose Its Creases (On the Bedpost Overnight)

Plastic Jesus

The Pub With No Beer

Songs added to June Concordance

Songbook added to songbook list.

NOTES UPDATED: 11 April 2025