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TITLE: The Raven

AUTHOR/COMPILER: Jim Roper

BRANCH OF SERVICE: Air Force

UNIT/AGENCY: Raven FACs (Laos)

DATE: Probably compiled about 1990

PLACE:

NOTE: "Published by the Edgar Allen Poe Literary Society of Texas Inc."

84 songs of the Raven FACs

CONTENTS:

1. Adeline Schmidt

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

3. And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
Tune: Waltzing Matilda

Note: Words by Eric Bogel (not noted in text)

4. Armed Recce
Tune: Big Iron

Note: Words by Toby Hughes (not noted in text)

5. Ballad of Hobo 51
Tune: Wabash Cannon Ball

6. Ballad of 18.32
Tune: Battle of New Orleans

7. Beside a Laotian Waterfall

8. The Birdmen
Note: Biblical parody, written by Captain Joe Matthews

9. The Bloody Great Kidney Wiper

10. Blue Four
Note: Words by Dick Jonas

11. Dashing Through the Sky
Tune: Jingle Bells

12. Dear Mom 1 (Your Son Is Dead)

13. Dear Mom 2 (02 Covey Version)

14. The Doumer Bridge Blues
Note: "This song was written in October 1967 by Captain Robert Middleton. Bob flew an entire tour of 100 missions while TDY from Japan. The Doumer was first hit on 11 August 1967."

15. Draft Dodger Rag

16. The FAC Who Never Returned
Tune: The Ship that Never Returned

Note: Words by Ron Barker (not noted in text)

17. Figher Pilots [There Are No Fighter Pilots Down in Hell]

18. Five Foot Nine [Has Anybody Seen my Lord?]
Tune: Has Anybody Seen my Girl?

19. Five Foot Two
Tune: Has Anybody Seen my Girl?

Note: Same words as recorded version by Draper and Hunt

20. Fuck You, Jane Fonda

21. Game Was Played on Sunday

22. Give my Regards to Kampot
Tune: Give my Regards to Broadway

Note: "Written in Cambodia, 1975"

23. Give Me Operations

24. Hallelujah
Note: Thud version of "Save a Fighter Pilot's Ass"

25. The Hamburg Zoo
Note: Variant of "The Wild West Show"

26. Here's to Old Udorn

27. Here's to the Regular Air Force [Call Out the Goddamn Reserves]
Tune: My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean

20. Humoresque [Passengers Will Please Refrain]

21. I Fly the Line
Tune: I Walk the Line

22. I Love my Wife

23. Itazukie Tower
Tune: Wabash Cannon Ball

24. I Want to Play Piano in a Whorehouse

25. I Wanted Wings (SEA Version)

26. Khartoum

27. Korea
Tune: I'm Looking over a Four-Leaf Clover

28. Kotex Song
Tune: The Caissons Go Rolling Along

29. Let My Fly My Warthog

30. Litter Mission
Tune: Fulsom Prison

Note: Same words as recorded version by Draper and Hunt

31. Litter Song [Fighter Pilot's Dream]

Note: Same words as recorded version by Draper and Hunt

32. The Little Brown Mouse

33. Lupe

34. The Man Behind the Armor Plated Desk
Tune: Strip Polka [sic]

35. The Man with No Balls at All

36. Mary Ann Burns

37. Masturbation
Tune: Funiculi, Funicula

38. Millie Darling
Tune: If You Ever Go Across the Sea to Ireland

39. My Father Is a Fireman

40. My How the Money Rolls In [My God, How the Money Rolls In]
Tune: My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean

41. Nape Is Great
Tune: Tea for Two

42. Old Gray Bustle
Tune: Old Gray Bonnet

43. The Old Pacific Sea

44. O'Leary's Bar

45. O'Leary's Balls
Tune: The Bells of St. Mary's

46. O Little Town of Ho Chi Minh
Tune: O Little Town of Bethlehem

47. 160 VC in the Open

Note: Words by Toby Hughes (not noted in text) with two additonal verses

48. One Hundred Missions
Tune: When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again

49. Our Leaders
Tune: Manana

50. Pull the Pipe from the Gas Hole [Pull That Boom from the Gas Hole]

Note: Words and tune by Dick Jonas

51. Raven FAC Battle Hymn (Apologies to Dick Jonas)
Tune: Battle Hymn of the River Rats

52. Raven Fac-ero
Tune: Gay Cabellero

53. Red River Valley [Teak Lead]
Tune: Red River Valley

54. Republic's Ultra Hog
Tune: Wabash Cannonball

55. The River Ran Red [As We Came Around and Tried to Get Some More
Tune: The Ship Titanic

56. Sally in the Alley

57. Sammy Small (1)

58. Sammy Small (SEA Version)

59. Save a Figher Pilot's Ass
Tune: Throw a Nickel on the Drum

60. Shit Hot from Korat
Tune: Sweet Betsy from Pike

61. Standing on the Bridge [It's the Same the Whole World Over]

62. Stand to your Glasses

Note: With "For We Are the Guys Who Fly High in the Sky" refrain

63. The Thanh Hoa Bridge
Tune: The Strawberry Roan

64. Strafe the Town
Tune: Wake the Town and Tell the People

65. Strafin' Round the Mountain
Tune: She'll Be Coming Round the Mountain

66. Swinging Wings
Tune: Auld Lang Syne

Note: "F-100 conversion to F-111"

67. Suits of Covey Blue

Tune: Bell-Bottom Trousers

68. Tie my Pecker to a Tree
Tune: The Old Chisolm Trail

69. The Twelve Days of Christmas (SEA Mixed Company Version)
Tune: The Twelve Days of Christmas

70. The Twelve Days of Christmas (SEA Stag Version)
Tune: The Twelve Days of Christmas

71. Up in that Valley
Tune: Down in the Valley

72. Where Have All the Old Heads Gone?
Tune: Where Have All the Flowers Gone?

73. Whiffenpoof Song

74. Will the MIGs Come Out to Play?
Tune: My Indiana Home

75. Will There Be a Tomorrow?

Note: Words and tune by Dick Jonas

76. Will You Go Boom Today?
Tune: Tararaboomdeay

77. Wingman's Lament [I'm a Lousy Thud Wingman and a Long Way from Home]
Tune: Sweet Betsy from Pike

78. The Woodpecker
Tune: Dixie

79. You Can Tell a Fighter Pilot
Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic

80. You Take the Legs

81. A ZPU Gunner

Note: Words by Chip Dockery (not noted in text)

82. Galway Bay [Parody]
Tune: Galway Bay

83. I'm a FAC
Tune: Has Anybody Seen my Girl?

84. I Fucked a Dead Whore
Tune: My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean

85. Mrs. Murphey's Chowder

86. Ravens in the Sky
Tune: Ghost Riders in the Sky

Note: "Craig W. Duehring, Raven 27"

NOTES UPDATED: 11 April 2025