Anyone Do "Fighter Pilot Song Books" Anymore?

[Renegade One]

One of my favorites, originally from an old VF-11 "Red Ripper Songbook", which we shamelessly re-worded for VF-111 in 1975. Note: "Old Nick" = VF-111; "MUSTANG" = CORAL SEA; "Eagle" = VF-51.

(To the tune ?The Wabash Cannonball?)
Hello Mustang Tower, this is Old Nick 204
I'm out here by the marshall, and the weather's mighty poor
My TACAN has gone apeshit, my ADF ain't right
My fuel is low and I don't wanna go into the drink tonight!

Aircraft calling Mustang on 306.2
This is Mustang Tower and we're not reading you
The ship is turning downwind and HERO has been set
We're in EMCON 2 my advice to you is standby to get wet

!Hello Mustang Tower, this is Old Nick 204
Please listen to my problem or I won't fly no more
The bingo field is distant, my fuel state is so slight
My ass is grass if I don't get a pass at your goddam deck tonight!

Roger Old Nick aircraft, your message is received
We've wakened up the Air Boss so you'll not be deceived
Your squadron rep is standing right by me seeking news
He wants to learn, if you crash and burn, where you hide your goddam booze!

MAYDAY Mustang Tower, this is 204 again
I somehow get the idea you're not doin' all you can
This goddam night is colder than an LSO?s black heart
Be advised have your plans revised or this bird I'll depart!

Roger Old Nick aircrew, don't leap into the glue
We've wakened up the Handler, and he's gonna make some room
We're knockin' off the movies and the party in FLY 2
You can make one pass you can bet your ass we'll have a deck for you!

Roger Mustang Tower, that sure is welcome news
We've dirtied up already, don't give away my booze
We'll make a straight-in landing from wherever we are at
So give me a steer that's loud and clear and we'll bring this Phantom back!

Roger Old Nick aircraft, your steer is one-oh-two
And here's the Mustang weather, the altimeter setting too
It's a hundred even over and partially obscured
There's big raindrops like piss on a rock so "rots of ruck" to you!

Roger Mustang Tower my steer is one-oh-two
Your weather sure sounds hairy, it'll have to be CASE II
Alert the flight deck medics and stand by for my pass
They'll earn their pay down in CCA if I don't bust my ass!

(Slowly?with feeling?)Sorry Old Nick aircrew, but it's no use tonight
There's and Eagle in the catwalk, you can understand our plight
The Captain's lost the bubble, they're drunk in Ready Two
The helo's down, there's no can around, sayonara Old Nick crew!

 

[Mumbles]

I think my Dad still has an old Jolly Rogers songbook somewhere that dates back to the mid 70s....I'll try and find it.

 

[HackerF15E]

A tradition still alive and well in the USAF.

Occasionally, leadership tries to squash it, but it always comes back.

 

[A4sForever]

I've got a USMC NAVAIR 'song book' from the 50s-60s that was passed down to me from a friend -- GREAT SONGS, great stuff.

 

[PropAddict]

I've got a USMC NAVAIR 'song book' from the 50s-60s that was passed down to me from a friend -- GREAT SONGS, great stuff.

Scan and post?

 

[A4sForever]

Scan and post?

Ewwww ... fuck ... it's got @ 20 pages, if memory serves.

I'll check it out and get back, if do-able.

The things I go through for this website ... because I care ... :sleep_125

 

[Catmando]

Halleujah, Oh halleujah,
throw a nickle on the grass,
Save a fighter pilot's ass;
Halleujah, Oh halleujah,
Throw a nickle on the grass
And you'll be saved.​

linky

 

[PropAddict]

This seems like the kind of wisdom that ought to be immortalized and imparted to future generations on stalls in heads worldwide.

 

[scoolbubba]

This seems like the kind of wisdom that ought to be immortalized and imparted to future generations on stalls in heads worldwide.

it'd be way more entertaining than reading the safety center's friday follies every time i drop the seal team off.

 

[A4sForever]

While we're talkin' @ fightin' & flyin' & fuckin' songs ... ... here's a fav of the Thud-boys @ KORAT during the Vietnam excursion:

"F-4 Serenade," sung by rival F-105 pilots:

I'd rather be a pimple on a syphilitic whore,
Than a backseat driver on an old F-4.

Refrain:
Don't put me in an F-4D, 4D
Don't put me in an F-4D.

I'd rather be a hair on a swollen womb,
Than be a pilot in an old Phan-tomb.

I rather be a pimple on a dirty cock,
Than be an F-4 jock.

I'd rather be a bloody scab,
Than to fly with a bent-up slab.

I'd rather be a rotten bum,
Than fly a plane without a gun.

I'd rather be a piss in a bottle,
Than fly a plane with more than one throttle.

I'd rather be a peckerless man,
Than fly a bent-up garbage can.

I'd rather be most anything,
Than to fly with a folding wing.

I'd rather give up all my cheatin'
Than to fly a plane with a rotten beacon.

How much lower can you stoop
Than want to fly a droop?

We don't know how they stay alive,
Flying something heavier than a 105.

Just remember, you phantom flyer
You have twice the chance for fire.

We got one engine, you got two,
As a word of parting, fuck you!

Refrain ... fuck you ... fuck you ... fuck you ...

........... Repeat refrain as necessary.

 

[Cron]

Here's a motherload (complete with scans).

 

[busdriver]

Throw a nickle on the grass, pay the Jolly's beer tab to come get your ass.

 

[FlyingOnFumes]

I think with today's "jointness" environment, Dos Gringos has taken over that role...