TITLE:
497th TFS Night
Owl
'
s Song Book
AUTHOR/COMPILER:
BRANCH OF SERVICE: Air Force
UNIT/AGENCY: 497th
Tactical Fighter Squadron
DATE: 1967
PLACE: Ubon Rachathani RTAFB
SOURCE: Joe Tuso
NOTE: 79 songs, approximately half of which have Air Force
content, apparently compiled at Ubon in 1967
CONTENTS:
Note: Songs marked with one
asterisk are Air Force songs from World War II or the Korean War, or with no
Vietnam references.Songs marked with two asterisks have specific Vietnam
content.
1. Air Force Song*
2. Air Corps Lament [Glory Flying Regulations]*
3. Air Force 801 [Itazuke Tower]*
4. Bosom Buddies**
Note: Preceded by a Vietnam
version of "A Young Fighter Pilot Lay
Dying"
5. Bell Bottom Trousers*
6. Come and Join the Air Force*
7. Here's to the Regular Air Force
[Call Out the Goddamned Reserves]**
8. Tiptanks and Tailpipes*
9. If You Fly**
10. I Wanted Wings*
11. Jolly, Jolly England [I Don't Want To Be a
Soldier]*
12. Guinea Waterfall*
13. O'Reilly's Bar ['Twas a Cold Winter
Evening]*
14. Just Give Me Operations**
15. Big Eye**
16. MIG-21 [I T'ought I Taw a
MIG-21]**
17. Red Nose MIGs**
18. TAC Headquarters [PACAF
Headquarters Is the Spot]**
19. Flak Showers**
20. You Can Tell a Fighter Pilot*
21. Napalm **
22. Once They Were Happy*
23. On Top of Old Thud Ridge**
24. Parties, Banquets and Balls**
25. Let's Have a Party**
26. Save a Fighter Pilot's Ass
[Phantom II]**
27. Singing So Long**
28. There Are No Fighter Pilots
Down in Hell**
29. Throttle Bender**
30. Who Owns This Club?**
31. Zoot Suits and Parachutes*
32. Wreck of the Old 97*
33. Have I Told You Lately That I Love You?
34. Cool Water
35. If You've Got the Money, I've Got the Time
36. San Antonio Rose
37. Yellow Rose of Texas
38. Red River Valley
39. The Cowboy's Lament [Streets of Laredo]
40. Tennessee Waltz
41. Blue Eyes [I'm Thinking Tonight of My Blue
Eyes]
42. Home on the Range
43. Pack Up Your Troubles
44. Tipperary
45. Over There
46. Tell Me Why
47. Seeing Nellie Home
48. A Man Without a Woman
49. Paddy Murphy
50. Wabash Cannon Ball
51. For Her Lover Who Was Far, Far Away*
52. Just Because
53. Give My Regards to Broadway
54. Far Above Cayuga's Waters
55. On Moonlight Bay
56. Shine On, Shine On Harvest Moon
57. Goodnight Irene
58. For Me and My Gal
59. My Wild Irish Rose
60. In the Evening By the Moonlight
61. By the Light of the Silvery Moon
62. Keep the Home Fires Burning
63. When You Were Sweet Sixteen
64. Long, Long Trail
65. My Gal Sal
66. Dixie
67. Swing Low, Sweet Chariot
68. Lili Marlene
69. My God How the Money Rolls In
70. Minnie the Mermaid
71. The Blue Tail Fly
72. Titanic
73. Roll Your Leg Over
74. The Foggy, Foggy Dew
75. The Persian Kitty
76. That Old Gang of Mine
77. You Tell Me Your Dream
78. When You Wore a Tulip
79. Ballad of the 497th
Tune: Whiffenpoof Song**
NOTES UPDATED:
23 October 2006
