# Songs about planes and flying **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Tags:** music\ **Created:** [January 31, 2025, 1:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675 "2025-01-31T13:07:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 10
**Author:** ![OttoDaFe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ottodafe/32/356_2.png) [@OttoDaFe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OttoDaFe)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/181 "2025-02-08T02:33:41Z")
Here’s a somewhat obscure one: “[What Do We Do? We Fly!](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UqMAiE2K3pc)” (from the 1965 semi-flop musical _Do I Hear a Waltz?_). The final verse (spoilered for the queasy): > You’re zooming up like a comet, > Your ears are starting to ring, > Your neighbor’s starting to vomit, > There’s ice along the wing. > As you wait for your palms to dry, > You can see your whole life pass by, > And they tell you it’s fun to fly! > Your chance of survival’s so remote, > You’re far better off to cut your throat, > But who has the time to take a boat? > What do we do? We fly! ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 2:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/182 "2025-02-08T02:43:46Z")
Glad you had safe travels! My last couple flights were terrifying, but I wasn’t about to tell you that before you left. ---
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/183 "2025-02-08T03:22:32Z")
> [@TCMF-2L](#): > > In a very tenuous link to flying Oh well, if you want a _tenuous_ link [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/icsHJhMeXYo/maxresdefault.jpg "Snoopy Vs. The Red Baron") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=icsHJhMeXYo) ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 3:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/184 "2025-02-08T03:26:42Z")
Another one from a not-exactly-famous musical: “Roberto’s Eyes” from Maury Yeston’s _Death Takes a Holiday_. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/mlq7YswJ3wc/maxresdefault.jpg "Roberto's Eyes") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mlq7YswJ3wc) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/185 "2025-02-08T14:13:01Z")
> [@OttoDaFe](#): > > The final verse (spoilered for the queasy): Wow. I have to assume those lyrics were written from the point of view of someone very afraid of flying, because I don’t think flight safety was quite _ **that** _ bad in even the Wright brothers’ time, let alone 1965! > [@saucywench](#): > > Glad you had safe travels! My last couple flights were terrifying, but I wasn’t about to tell you that before you left. Thanks sw! Sorry to hear about your last couple flights, though. Why were they so terrifying, if you don’t mind my asking - rough turbulence? ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/186 "2025-02-08T17:50:49Z")
Well, there was that time with the gremlin. Just kidding. Yes, very bad turbulence. I’ve never experienced any other flights that were that bad. I think both times it was over the Rocky Mtns.? It was on flights between Phoenix and St. Louis and Phoenix and Minneapolis. ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/187 "2025-02-08T17:58:42Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RntSYqMOl9Q/hqdefault.jpg "Tori Amos - I Can't See New York (WTSF 2003)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RntSYqMOl9Q) ---
**Author:** ![solost](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/solost/32/11776_2.png) [@solost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/solost)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 8:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/188 "2025-02-08T20:52:48Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > Yes, very bad turbulence. I’ve never experienced any other flights that were that bad. I experienced really bad turbulence once- on a business trip with my boss flying home. The flight was delayed for almost two hours due to a bad storm. The turbulence I assume was from the storm’s aftermath. The plane was shaking like crazy and kept doing these little free fall plummets that were probably only small losses of altitude, but felt terrifying. To take my mind off my anxiety I was thinking of work stuff, since it was a business trip, and had a work idea I told my boss. When I turned to tell him he was white-knuckle gripping the armrests and he just said something like “yeah, ok, whatever”. He was as, or more, freaked out than I was. I saw the most beautiful sunset I think I’ve ever seen out of the plane window- layers of clouds colored purple, orange and gold. I thought, if I’m about to die, at least that’s a great last view. But, if it’s any consolation, planes are built to take an enormous amount of turbulence. Even turbulence much more than I, or probably you experienced those times is likely no actual danger, other than to unbuckled passengers being knocked around. Not that it’s a very comforting thought when you’re going through it. And just to keep the thread on-topic: Turbulence by Pink _As scary as it gets_ _It’s just turbulence_ ---
**Author:** ![Coriolanus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/coriolanus/32/18769_2.png) [@Coriolanus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Coriolanus)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/189 "2025-02-08T22:31:03Z")
Howlin’ Wolf Mr. Airplane Man > Mr. Airplane man, will you fly down to Jackson for me? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/190 "2025-02-08T23:03:57Z")
I am the hawk and there’s blood on my feathers But time is still turning, they soon will be dry And all those who see me and all who believe in me Share in the freedom I feel when I fly — John Denver, “The Eagle and the Hawk” ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/191 "2025-02-08T23:10:39Z")
Well, if you are going to go all poignant, you might as well throw in _Free Bird_ as well. ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/192 "2025-02-08T23:14:14Z")
How’s about, “Free as a Bird,” by the Beatles? ---
**Author:** ![eschereal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eschereal/32/18939_2.png) [@eschereal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/eschereal)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 11:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/193 "2025-02-08T23:38:14Z")
Well, I mean, which Beatle died in a plane crash? ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [February 8, 2025, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/194 "2025-02-08T23:54:59Z")
Now I see. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 12:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/195 "2025-02-09T00:13:50Z")
Who needs an airplane? [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/XusCEhyUiJc/maxresdefault.jpg "I'm Flying") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XusCEhyUiJc) ---
**Author:** ![Horatio\_Hellpop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e5b9ba/32.png) [@Horatio\_Hellpop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatio_Hellpop)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 9:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/196 "2025-02-09T09:27:53Z")
“I Wanna Be Sedated” by the Ramones “(Wish I Could Fly Like) Superman” by the Kinks “Come Take a Trip on My Airship” Natalie Merchant, Johnny Cash, et al. “Like You Were Dying” by Tim McGraw ---
**Author:** ![enipla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/54ee81/32.png) [@enipla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/enipla)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 12:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/197 "2025-02-09T12:18:12Z")
> [@Johanna](#): > > “Airplane” by Indigo Girls > _I’d rather take a seat down there than a throne up here > Up above thirty thousand feet_ 100% Johanna. Love the song. Was the first one that popped into my head. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 12:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/198 "2025-02-09T12:42:53Z")
Did someone mention “Fly Me To The Moon” and I missed it? There’s also “Satellite of Love” by Lou Reed (featuring David Bowie). ---
**Author:** ![EinsteinsHund](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/einsteinshund/32/8400_2.png) [@EinsteinsHund](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EinsteinsHund)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/199 "2025-02-09T12:45:44Z")
> [@P-man](#): > > Did someone mention “Fly Me To The Moon” and I missed it? See post #94. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [February 9, 2025, 12:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/200 "2025-02-09T12:59:03Z")
> [@EinsteinsHund](#): > > See post #94 I flew through the posts too quickly. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675.md?page=9) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675.md?page=11)