TITLE: 44th TFS Hymnal: Official, Unexpurgated, Unabridged, Unbelievable 1970 Edition

AUTHOR/COMPILER:

BRANCH OF SERVICE: Air Force

UNIT/AGENCY: 44th TFS

NATIONALITY: USA

DATE: 1975-1978

PLACE: Okinawa

NOTE: Text of 143 songs. Donator obtained it while stationed with the 44th TFS in Okinawa "in the 1975-1978 time frame."

The name Tricky Dick Lockwood is handwritten on the front page of the book.

Lacks songs 2-3 and songs 110-111.

CONTENTS:

1. Will the MIGS Come Out To Play
Tune: My Indiana Home

4. Republic's Ultra Hog
Tune: Wabash Cannonball

5. The Red River Valley

6. Our Leaders
Tune: Manana

7. On Top of the Pop Up
Tune: On Top of Old Smokey

8. The Thanh Hoa Bridge
Tune: The Strawberry Roan

9. Sally In the Alley

10. Up In that Valley
Tune: Down In That Valley

11. Pop Goes the Weasel

12. Don't Send Me to Hanoi
Tune: Winchester Cathedral

13. One Hundred Missions
Tune: When Johnny Comes Marching Home

14. Where Have All the Old Heads Gone
Tune: Where Have All the Flowers Gone

15. Wild Weasel
Tune: Sweet Baby From Pike

16. 12 Days of Combat
Tune: Twelve Days of Christmas

17. Horse Shit

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

19. Roll Your Leg Over

20. Woodpecker Song
Tune: Dixie

21.The Yellow Rose of Hanoi
Tune: The Yellow Rose of Texas

22. We've Been Working on the Railroad

23. #1 Clismas Song

24. Song of the Wolf Pack
Tune: Ghost Riders in the Sky

25. If You Fly

26. Adeline Schmidt

27. Napalm
Tune: Good Ship Titanic

28. On Top Of Old Thud Ridge
Tune: On Top Of Old Smokey

29. Sing Us Another One Do

30. Just Give Me Operations
Tune: Bless Them All

31. The Coed and the Cadet

32. A Man Without a Woman

33. The Lady In Red

34. Humoresque

35. You'll Never Mind

36. Ode To A Great Fuckin' SAR Effort (with apologies to "The Night Before Christmas")

37. Brown Anchor
Tune: Oh Susanna

38. Downtown

39. Air Corps Lament
Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic

40. Flak Showers

41. Mary Ann Burns

42. Here's To _________

43. Call Out the Reserves

44. Virgin Sturgeon
Tune: Ruben Ruben

45. Da Nang Lullabye
Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean

46. Battle Hymn of the 85mm Gunner

Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic

47. The Little Bird

48. Foggy, Foggy Dew

49. I Used To Work In Chicago

50. The Sexual Life of a Camel

51. Into the Air 69ers

52. Ting-A-Ling

53. Bang It Into Lulu

54. In-Flight Refueling
Tune: Strawberry Roan

55. Let's Have a Party

56. Shanty Town

57. Bloody Great Wheel

58. Those Wedding Bells Are Breaking Up

59. Ace In The Hole

60. Titanic

61. Sammy Small (S E A Style)

62. Battle Hymn

63. Show Me the way To Go Home

64. Mary Ann Burns

65. Air Force Song

66. Throw A Nickle On the Grass

67. I Wanted Wings (till I Got the Goddamned things)

68. Joy To the World

69. Jingle Bells

70. Little Town of Bethlehem

71. Kotex Song
Tune: Caissons Go Rolling Along

72. When The Ice Is On The Rice

73. Six Pounds of Boobies

74. "G" Suits and Parachutes
Tune: Bell Bottom Trousers

75. I Want To Play Piano In a Whore House Kuni-Ri and Antung
Tune: Cigarettes and Saki

76. Puff
Tune: Puff the Magic Dragon

77. The Cuckoo Song

78. It's Tragic

79. Do Your Balls Hang Low
Tune: March of the Toy Soldiers

80. Little Red Heaven
Tune: My Blue Heaven

81. Jolly Jolly Bangkok

82. When The MIGS Come Out to Play
Tune: My Home in Indiana

83. Doodle-Lee-Doo

84. Violate Me

85. The Scotch Wedding

86. Lydia Pinkham

87. Frigging In the Rigging

88. Lilly From Piccadilly

89. Falsies in Brassieres
Tune: Coffee In Brazil

90. Whiffenpoof Song

91. Show Me The Way To Go Home

92. I Love My Girl

93. Ivan Skavinski Skavar

94. Chicken Song

95. The Accident Investigator's Lament
Tune: I Don't Know Why

96. Help, Help, Help

Tune: Whiffenpoof Song

97. The Ho-Chi-Min Trail
Tune: Along the Navaho Trail

98. Tie My Root Around A Tree
Tune: Chisolm Trail

99. I Saw Her Snatch

100. Kathuselem

101. No Fighter Pilots Down In Hell

102. Red Nose MIGS
Tune: Shrimp Boats

103. On Top of Old Pyongyang
On Top of Old Smokey

104. On Top of Old Fuji

105. MIG-15
Tune: I T'ought I Taw A Putty Cat

106. Our Baby

107. Taegu Girls

108. To The Regulars
Tune: Mr. and Mrs. Mississippi

109. The Camel

112. Oh, Rip the Feathers Away

113. Ass Holes Are Cheap Today

114. Three Whores From Canada Junction

115. Beside A Korean Waterfall

116. No Balls At All

117. Parties, Banquets and Balls
Tune: Take Me Out to the Ball Game

118. Please Don't Burn the Shithouse Down

119. A Babbling Brook

120. Nelly Darling

121. Paddy Murphy

122. Street Cleaner Song
Tune: Carolina in the Morning

123. Bless 'em All

124. Come On and Join the Airforce

125. You Can Tell A Fighter Pilot

126. Itazuke Tower

127. Dirty Lil

128. Old Gray Bustle
Tune: Old Gray Bonnet

129. Flak Shower

130. Little Grey Rat

131. The Duchess

132. Early Abort
Tune: MacNamara's Band

133. The Weasel Bear's Picnic
Tune: Teddy Bear's Picnic

134. The Grunt Song

135. Oh KBA, Oh KBA

136. I Love My Bear

137. Crash, Burn Die

138. Lupe

139. All Around is Desolation

140. Purple Twilight

141. Secret Love

142. I Want to Play Piano in a Whorehouse

143. The Ballad of the Green Brassiere

NOTES UPDATED: 11 April 2025

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Duxford's Thud-to-be
With the roll-out of Duxford's F-15A, Gavin Mills looks at the other ex-USAF jet that made the same voyage and is destined for refurbishment in the near future.

59-1822 was built as a F-105D-6-RE Thunderchief and saw active service throughout the Vietnam war with the 44th TFS, the "Vampires", where she flew from RTAFB Takhli between 10/10/69 and 10/12/70 (the unit's last deployment to Vietnam). At that time the squadron flew a mix of aircraft, predominantly in the armed escort role, their major function being the suppression of enemy air defences (SEAD) with two-seat Wild Weasel F-105Fs (prior to conversion to the F-105G) acting as the hunter and the single seat F-105D acting in the killer role.

The aircraft carried very distinctive markings during this deployment - along with the famous 'RE' tailcode used by the 44th TFS, 355th TFW she was named "The Polish Glider" and carried a gold Polish Eagle crest on her port side with the inscription "Yankee Air Polack" underneath. The aircraft name itself was painted onto a black panel added along the outside of the port intake, just ahead of the wing leading edge, in beautiful white Gothic script. The aircraft was assigned to Major Dan Kutyna who christened her "The Polish Glider" for two reasons - firstly he was of Polish descent and secondly he was making a rather cynical reference to the Thud's aptitude for powerless flight, or lack of it!

She survived the conflict in South East Asia and returned to the United States where she was assigned to the 149th TFS, 192nd TFW Virginia Air National Guard based at Richmond International Airport, VA. The squadron
converted from another Republic product, the F-84F Thunderstreak to the F-105D/F Thunderchief on 19 February 1971 and flew the jets for eleven years until they were replaced with the A-7D in 1982.

Superhog! While flying with the 'Virginians' she gained new artwork on her port side, this time in the more common (for the F-105) position just underneath the intake. The artwork was of a bright red Wild Boar charging forwards on a diamond background carrying the legend "SuperHog", a reference to another of the Thunderchief's nicknames. 59-1822 was retired to MASDC, Davis-Monthan AFB, AZ on 26 February 1981 and assigned the inventory number FK0030. After her tanks were drained of fuel, oil and lubricants removed and ejection seat de-armed she received a protective coating of spraylat that allowed her to enjoy a well earned holiday in the hot Arizona desert for the next 19 years. After being joined in storage during the late eighties and early nineties by ranks and ranks of her Century-Series contemporaries (including F-100 Super Sabres, F-102 Delta Daggers and F-106 Delta Darts) she then watched in despair as they were restored to flight status, only to be destroyed in live missile firings. Is it better to go out in a final blaze of glory, shot down in flames after one last flight or to slowly fade under the unrelenting Arizona sun?

Thankfully she was saved from the fate suffered by her peers and the torture awaiting thousands of Phantoms and Corsairs in the smelters surrounding AMARC. Most of these F-4s and A-7s had arrived at AMARC long after 59-1822 and were cut into sections and melted down while she sat patiently waiting for her fate to be decided. During the first few months of 1999 she was transported the short distance to the Dross Metals International scrapyard just outside the base perimeter. Her wings, vertical and horizontal tail along with drop tanks and pylons were removed and carefully crated for a journey to her final resting place, the Imperial War Museum, Duxford. Here she will be restored to her former glory for many thousands of people to enjoy. The only problem is I can't decide which scheme I would prefer to see her painted in!

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