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 Home4. Republic's Ultra Hog
Tune: Wabash Cannonball5. The Red River Valley
6. Our Leaders
Tune: Manana7. On Top of the Pop Up
Tune: On Top of Old Smokey8. The Thanh Hoa Bridge
Tune: The Strawberry Roan9. Sally In the Alley
10. Up In that Valley
Tune: Down In That Valley11. Pop Goes the Weasel
12. Don't Send Me to Hanoi
Tune: Winchester Cathedral13. One Hundred Missions
Tune: When Johnny Comes Marching Home14. Where Have All the Old Heads Gone
Tune: Where Have All the Flowers Gone15. Wild Weasel
Tune: Sweet Baby From Pike16. 12 Days of Combat
Tune: Twelve Days of Christmas17. Horse Shit
18. I Wanted Wings (S.E.A. Version)
19. Roll Your Leg Over
20. Woodpecker Song
Tune: Dixie21.The Yellow Rose of Hanoi
Tune: The Yellow Rose of Texas22. We've Been Working on the Railroad
23. #1 Clismas Song
24. Song of the Wolf Pack
Tune: Ghost Riders in the Sky25. If You Fly
26. Adeline Schmidt
27. Napalm
Tune: Good Ship Titanic28. On Top Of Old Thud Ridge
Tune: On Top Of Old Smokey29. Sing Us Another One Do
30. Just Give Me Operations
Tune: Bless Them All31. 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 Susanna38. Downtown
39. Air Corps Lament
Tune: Battle Hymn of the Republic40. Flak Showers
41. Mary Ann Burns
42. Here's To _________
43. Call Out the Reserves
44. Virgin Sturgeon
Tune: Ruben Ruben45. Da Nang Lullabye
Tune: My Bonnie Lies Over the Ocean46. 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 Roan55. 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 Along72. When The Ice Is On The Rice
73. Six Pounds of Boobies
74. "G" Suits and Parachutes
Tune: Bell Bottom Trousers75. I Want To Play Piano In a Whore House Kuni-Ri and Antung
Tune: Cigarettes and Saki76. Puff
Tune: Puff the Magic Dragon77. The Cuckoo Song
78. It's Tragic
79. Do Your Balls Hang Low
Tune: March of the Toy Soldiers80. Little Red Heaven
Tune: My Blue Heaven81. Jolly Jolly Bangkok
82. When The MIGS Come Out to Play
Tune: My Home in Indiana83. 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 Brazil90. 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 Why96. Help, Help, Help
Tune: Whiffenpoof Song
97. The Ho-Chi-Min Trail
Tune: Along the Navaho Trail98. Tie My Root Around A Tree
Tune: Chisolm Trail99. I Saw Her Snatch
100. Kathuselem
101. No Fighter Pilots Down In Hell
102. Red Nose MIGS
Tune: Shrimp Boats103. On Top of Old Pyongyang
On Top of Old Smokey104. On Top of Old Fuji
105. MIG-15
Tune: I T'ought I Taw A Putty Cat106. Our Baby
107. Taegu Girls
108. To The Regulars
Tune: Mr. and Mrs. Mississippi109. 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 Game118. 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 Morning123. 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 Bonnet129. Flak Shower
130. Little Grey Rat
131. The Duchess
132. Early Abort
Tune: MacNamara's Band133. The Weasel Bear's Picnic
Tune: Teddy Bear's Picnic134. 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: 23 October 2006
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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.
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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