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THE FLEET AIR ARM SONG BOOK [SONGBOOK] Mark II.
CONTENTS Page
The A 25 Song 3
Bold Aviator Lay Dying 6
SONGS OF THE R.N.A.S.
Air Cinderellas, The 13
Hurrah for the Bounding Air 10
I Left the Mess Room Early 8
Old Nine-A, The 13
Splitarse Over Cambrai 9
Stormy The Night 12
Think Of Me 9
Three German Officers 14
Who Killed Cock Robin? 10
1918-1939
INTER-WAR YEARS
Argus Maru 15
Bicker of Grey, The 18
Blackburns Over The Ocean 17
Bombing Song 16
Coo! What A Silly Idea! 20
"Eagle" Song 21
Fighter Pilot, The 22
"Furious" Song 23
In Other Words 26
No Balls At All 27
Observer's Lament, The 28
Senior Observer's Lament, The 29
Sing a Song of Sixpence 29
405 Flight Song 22
445 and 446 Flights, Hal Far 24
1939-1945
WARTIME SONGS
Albert and the Wind 67
A Pilot's Lot 49
Arse-End Charlie is me Name 57
A-Tiskit, A-Tasket 65
Barrier Song, The 61
Cyril the Intrepid Birdman 56
Dual Control 45
Eastern Fleet Song 65
Flying Flying Fortresses 36
Ginger Frazeele 57
Harry Clampers 40
If 51
I Just Got Another Wave-Off 40
Katukarunda 59
K.G.V. 60
Middle's Dilemma, The 62
Modern Meteorologist, The 50
Mr. Pupil and Mr. Instructor 52
My Stringbag Flies Over
The Ocean 37
Night Watch 47
Onward, Deadbeat Pilots 59
Pregnant Swordfish, The 43
Rum and Coca-Cola 66
Sunday, Monday, or Always 63
Sweet F.A. 41
Ten New Seafires 55
Thanks for the Memory 39
These Shaky Do's 38
There's a Balls-up on
the Flight-Deck 35
There's a Home for Batchy
Airmen 31
They say there's a Flat-Top 34
United States Marines 64
Up and Down the Runway 56
Wave Me Off Boys 58
We are the Air-Sea Rescue 32
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What did you do in the War? 68
Where was the Martlet Riot? 60
Winter Nights 64
Wirraways Don't Worry Me 64
Wykeham Hall 46
You'll Never Go to Heaven 32
You Work the W/T 40
742 Squadron Song
(The Flying Forty-Second) 43
811 Squadron Song
(Squadron Going Rotten) 42
820 Squadron's Dance 63
832 Squadron Song
(Take me back to Navy -
Norfolk) 42
893 Squadron Song 46
BARRACUDA SONGS
All Over The Place 76
Any Old Iron 74
Fairey, Fairey 73
I'm Dreaming Tonight 77
I Want to Buy a Barracuda 79
I Wonder Why? 75
Nine Wing Song 69
Oh! Mr. Aggie! 71
Passing By 73
Put Those Dive-Brakes Down 79
Rivets From Heaven 77
Somewhere a Barracuda's
Always Pranging 70
They're Breaking Up Barra IFs 70
Way Up There In Whitehall 78
We Ditch Our Barracudas 72
You Must Remember This 72
KOREAN WAR SONGS
Briefing Song, The
(Pardon me, chums) 84
Friday the 13 th 84
K-9 Blues 87
On Top of Old Pyongyang 86
Pyongyang — a Dirge 85
Save a Fighter Pilot's Arse 80
801 Squadron Song 81
821 Squadron Song 82
UP TO
THE PRESENT DAY
Aircrew and Fisheads
(Should be Friends) 120
Alpha Team 97
Among My Souvenirs 119
A 25 Rotary Verses 101
Buccaneer Song, The 109
Dragonfly Song, The 92
Fairey Aviation Company 107
Farewell 98
Four Blades on my Wessex 97
Four Four Wires of Home, The 114
Give me the Ark Necessities 122
Good Ship Ocean, The 99
Hey-ho! says Anthony Wigley 117
I'm a Seaking Chap 117
Lonesome Meatball 111
L.S.O. Song, The 113
Meatball Wizard 110
Pinger Pilot's Lament 98
Red Three 93
Six Night Traps 110
Ship with no Booze, A 115
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SOBs Dreams of Shakespeare 119
Three Wheels on my Vixen 106
Vixen's Made For Pitch-Up, A 106
Vixen Song (Ashes to Ashes) 102
Vixen Song (Picture if you can) 104
Wessex Pilot 98
Wigley-wogley Boys 119
Wingsy Baby, The Ballad of 112
805 Squadron Song ('Hughie') 94
824 Second Pilot's Song
(The Channel One Blues) 121
845 Squadron Song
(Well All Pull Together) 96
849 Squadron Dirge 108
GENERAL ODES AND
DITTIES
Abdul A Bui Bui Ameer 124
Anthony Roley 125
Arseholes Are Cheap Today 123
Ball of Kirriemuir 125
Bastard King of England 129
Brian Boru 130
Cats On The Rooftops 132
Chandler's Boy 131
Chin Chin Chinaman 133
Cocaine Bill 134
Come On Boys- 135
Craven A 136
Dahn the Plug
!Ole 135
Dickey-Di-Do 160
Digging Up Father's Grave 146
Eskimo Nell 138
Foggy Dew 137
Frankie and Johnny 443
Gay Caballero 147
Good Ship Venus 148
Grand Farting Contest 144
Hedgehog, The 147
Hi, Hi Kathusalem 155
How the Money Rolls In 149
Housing Problem 152
I Took My Wife For
A Scramble 154
In Mobile 150
Keyhole In The Door 153
Kidney Wiper 156
Last Night I Pulled My Pud 157
Last Saturday Night 158
life Presents A Dismal
Picture 157
Lilian Was A Beauty 141
limericks 158
little Angeline 162
Lobster Song, The 165
Long Black Pudding 166
Lulu 140
LydiaPink 161
Mr. Codfish and Mr. Sole 160
Nemesis 172
Ode To The Four-Letter
Word 142
Old Woman of Dublin 167
O'Riley's Daughter 173
Passengers Will Please
Refrain 153
Please Don't Burn Our
Shithouse Down 168
Portions of a Woman 172
Rajah-Sahib of Astrakhan 168
Ram O'Derbyshire, The 169
Ring-A-Rang-A-Roo 170
Roede an School 174
Salome 177
Sambo Was A Lazy Coon 170
Sammy Hall 180
Second Oldest Profession 146
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She Was Poor But She
Was Honest 178
Sister Anna Will
Carry The Banner 176
Sister lily 178
Sparrer, The 186
Sweet Violets 181
That Lovely Weekend 182
There Was An Old Farmer 167
They Called the
Bastard Stephen 181
Those Foolish Things 182
Three Old Ladies 184
Uncle Dick And
Auntie Mabel 174
Up In Belfry 137
Virgin Sturgeon 186
Walrus And The
Carpenter 183
West Virginian Hills 185
When Lady Jane
Became A Tart 164
Woodpecker Song, The 183
NAVAL ODES AND
DITTIES
And It Came To Pass.. 189
All The Nice Girls 190
Bollocky Bill The Sailor 191
Cold As A Frog 197
Do Your Balls Hang Low? 192
Duchess of Lee, The 201
I Don't Want To Join
The Army 203
Me No Likee Blitish
Sailor 190
My Brother Sylveste 200
Old King Cole 194
Plumber's Run, The 196
Round The Corner 192
Scapa Flow 191
Seven Whores of Pompey 198
Shilling A Go 201
Stripey's Lament 195
Venal Vera 199
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