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TITLE:  Fighter Pilots Song Book

AUTHOR/COMPILER:  Paul Orf and Mike Ryan 

BRANCH OF SERVICE: Air Force

UNIT/AGENCY:  523 TFS

DATE:  1963

PLACE:

SOURCE:  Paul Orf  

NOTE:  Texts of 350 songs, one unnumbered text added at end.  The editors appear to have reproduced the entire text of the 354th Tactical Fighter Squadron Training Manual .

Honors are due the following organizations and individuals for their contributions to this, the 523 Tactical Fighter Squadron's Song Book.

The Royal Australian Air Force, No. 79(F) Squadron, Ubon, Thailand, 1962-63

The Royal Australian Air Force, No. 77(F) Squadron, Japan and Korea, 1950-1951

The United States Air Force Song Book . Compiled and Edited by "Bill Star."  27th Tactical Fighter Wing, Cannon AFB, New Mexico.

"Songs We Never Quite Remember."  Compiled by the 506th Tactical Fighter Wing.  United States Air Force.

All the individual men of the Air Force that have contributed songs, in any manner, to this epistle.

Songs My Mother Taught Me, volumes I and II.

17th Wild Weasel Song Book .  Korat RTAFB, Thailand.

"Mike Ryan and I [PO] got serious in 1963 and while TDY from CVS with the 523rd we published the LFHAB songbook.  You will notice our name is not on the book as it was a dark of the nite operation." (Letter to LMF from PO, 23 May 1992)

[JH notes: The symbol of the spider is like the 421st TFS]

 

LOCATION: LMF files

CONTENT:

A Babbling Brook

A Bomber Flies At 10,000 Feet

A Lost Fighter Pilot

Ace in the Hole

Adeline Schmidt

After the Missions Over

Ain't It a Bloody Shame

Air Corp Lament

Air Force 801

Air Force Song

A Man Without a Woman

A Navy Prayer

Angles Pom-Pom Song

And I Learned About Flying From Him

Anthony Roly

Arigato For the Memories

Ass Hole Are Cheap Today

Auralee

B-52 Take-Off

Ball of Yarn

Bang It Into Lu-Lu

Barnacle Bill the Pilot

Battle Hymn

Bear of the Sky

Beside a Korean Waterfall

Betsy the Heifer

Blackbirds

Bless 'Em All

Blood On Your Tunic

Bloody Sparrow

Bozin' Buddies

Bring That Base Leg In

British Grenadiers

Buddy

Bye-bye Blackbird

Call Out the Army and the Navy

Cats on the Roof-top

Cats on the Roof-top (John Peel)

Charlie Went a Running

Chicken Song

Chitose Blues

Clovis

Cocaine Sue

Cold Winter's Evening

Come On and Join the Air Force

Cool

Co-pilot's Lament

Creeping and Crawling

Cricket

Cruising Over Hanoi

Daisy

Dangerous Dan McGrew

Dark and Dreamy Eyes

Dear Old Dad

Dinah

Dirty Lil

Don't Send Me to Hanoi

Doodle-Lee-Do

Down in the Valley

Do You Know My Sister Tilly

Do Your Balls Hang Low

Drinking Rum and Coca-cola

Drinking Song

Drunk

Early Abort

Eight Bucks a Day

F-4 Sevenade

F-84 Pilot's Battle Cry

Falsies in Brasseires

Farewell To Antung University

Father's Grave

Fighter Pilots

Flak In The Night

Flak Showers

Foggy, Foggy Dew

Foreskin Fugitives

Freedoms Threat

Friggin' in the Riggin

Funiculi Funicla

Give Me Operations

Clorious

Glorious

Going Home

Good Ole Mountain Dew

"G" Suits and Parachutes

Hail, You Fighter Pilots

Hallelujag

Harrigan

Have You Tried Yessup

Hello Father

Here's To ___________

Here's To the Next Man to Die

Here's TO the Regular Air Force

Hinky Di

Honey

Horse-Shit

Humoresque

Hutches Ballad

I Aint' Got No Use For Women

I Wanted Wings

I Want to Play Piano in a Whorehouse

Ice on the Rice

If You Fly

I Love A Billboard

I Love My Girl

I Love Old Wing OP's And Flying Safety

In-flight Refueling

In Fourteen Hundred Ninety-two

In Mobile

In the Springtime

In the Tall, Tall Grass

Into the Air

Into the Air, 69ers

I Saw Her Snatch

Itazuke O.R.T.

It's Tragic

I Used To Work In Chicago

Ivan Skavinski Skavar

I've Got Six Pence

I Wanted Wings

I Wanted Wings (Korean Version)

I Wanted Wings (S.E.A. Version)

I Wanted To Go Home

Join The Air Force

Kathuselem

Key-hole in the Door

Khartoum

Kimpo Blues

Kimpo Sonata

Korea

Kotex Song

Kuni-Ri and Antung

Lament of the Reservist

Landlord Fill The Flowing Bowl

Last Night

Last Saturday Night

Lee's Houchie

Let Ole Mother Nature Have Her Way

Let's Have a Party

Lilly, From Piccadilly

Lili Marlene

Little Red Light

Look At the Ears on Him

Lupe

Lydia Pinkham

Mach Rider in the Sky

Mary Ann Burns

Meet Me in Kyoto

MIG 15

MIGS Come Out To Play

Minnie the Mermaid

Moonshine

Mother Humper's Ball

Movin'On

Mustang's Run By Merlin

My Darlin'n 39

My Family

My Grandfather's Cock

My God How the Money Rolls In

My Red Haven

My Wild Eyed Cadet

My Wild Irish Rose

Nail FAC

Napalm

Naughty Little Dog

Nelly Darling

Night on the Town

No Balls At All

Ode To a Great Fuckin' SAR Effort

Ode to the B-29

Ode to the J.O.C. Duty Ovvider

Off We Go

Oh Its Beer, Beer, Beer

Oh, Johnny

Oh Rip the Feathers Away

Oh The 523 rd Is A Very Fine Squadron

Oh They Say This Kimpo's A Very Fine Place

Old Beer Bottles

Old Green River

Old Gray Bustle

Old Number Nine

Old Souldiers Never Die

Once They Were Happy

One Hundred Missions

On Top of Old Fuju

On Top of Old Pyongyang

O'Reilly's Daughter

Our Leaders

Our Outhouse

Paddy Murphy

Parties

Parties, Banquets and Balls

Pas De Calais

Phan bang Blues

Philadelphia Lawyer

Pilots Always Eat Pussy

Pilot's Heaven

Pilot's Lament

Piper Laurie

Piss on the ____________

Please Don't Burn the Shithouse down

Pop Goes the Weasel

Poor, But Honest

Poor Little Angeline

Prang 'Em All

Puff

Pusan "U"

Rail Cutters

Ramey Air Patch

Red Nosed MIGs

Red Scarfs

Remember

Republic's Ultra Hug

Rickey Dan Do

Ring Dang Do

Rio, Rio, Rio

Rollin' Down the Runway

Roll Me Over

Roll Your Leg Over

Rotational Eve

Ro-Tiddle-E-E-O

Rugged But Right

Russian National Anthem

Safe Hand Mail

Saigon Oh Saigon

Sally

Salome

Sam Houston

Sammy Small

Save A Fighter Pilot's Ass

Sammy Small (S.E.A. Style)

Seoul City Sue

Sepbsqa (I Don't Know What It Means Either)

Shanty Town

Shit Hot from Korat

Show Me The Way to Go Home

Sidi Salimans Song

Silver Threads Among the Gold

Sing Us Another One: Do

Six Pounds of Boobies

Sixteen Times

Song R&R

Song of the 18 th

Song of the Sabres

Song of the Zulu Warriors

South of the Border

Spanish Guitar

Spot Promotion

Spring Time on the Yalu

Squadron Song

Stand To Your Glasses

Stay With God

Strafers

Strafin' Around the Mountain

Street Cleaners Song

Styles

Sung To My Home in Indiana

T.A.C. Headquarters

Tachikawa, Yokahama, Itazuke

Taegu Girls

Tatooed Lady

Tell Me Why

Ten Thousand Dollars

The Air Force Lament

The B-36

The Balls Of O'Leary

The Bastard King of England

The Bloody Great Wheel

The Camel

The Candle Song

The Cheetas

The Co-ed and the Cadet

The Colonel's Lament

The Commies Lament

The Cowboy's Lament

The Cuckoo Song

The Damm Dummy

The Fairchild Abortion

The Fighting 68 th

The Foggy, Foggy Dew

The Formation

The Four Bastards

The Hairy-Chested Eighty Sixth

The Invader

The Little Brown Building

The Little Grey Rat

The Long Bomba Di

The Maid of the Mountain

The Man Behind the Armor Plated Desk

The Marrying Kind

The Mayor of Bayswater

The Mission

The Monk

The Most Chivilrous Fish

The Others Went Flying

The Persian Kitty

The Po River Valley

The Portions of A Woman

The Prettiest Ship

The Prettiest Girl I Ever Saw

The Red River Valley

The River Ran Red

The Scotch Wedding

The Shiek Of Araby

The Thauh Hoa Bridge

The Thing

The Thinker

The Weasel Song

The Woodpecker

There Is Nothing Like Some __________

They Called the Bastard Stephens

Those Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up

388 th

Three Old Maids

Three Whores From Canada Junction

Throttle Benders

Thud Drivers in the Sky

Tie My Boot Around a Tree

Tip-tanks and Tailpipes (The Wall)

Titanic

Toast to the Blue Angels

Too Long At Itazuke

To the Regulars

To The Tables Down At Sidi

Twelve Days of Combat

Two Ladies Were Confiding

Tuff Shitsky

Uncle John and Aunt Mabel

Uncle Ho Chi Minh

Up In the Valley

Up the Duff

Violate Me

Virgin Sturgeon

Waltzing Matilda

We All May Be Dead Tomorrow

We Sold Our Cow

West Virginia Hills

We've Been Working on the Railroad

When Your Leaves Have Turned to Silver

Where Have All the Old Heads Gone

Why Did I Join the Air Force

Why Do the Drums Go Boom

Wiffenproof Song

Wingman's Lament

Wild Weasel

Wirraways Don't Worry Me

Wreck of Old '97

You Can Tell A Fighter Pilot

You'll Never Mind

 

NOTES UPDATED:  11 April 2025

 


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