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:
23 October 2006
