# 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:** 2
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 2:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/21 "2025-01-31T14:00:51Z")
Did not know that, thanks! ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/22 "2025-01-31T14:04:28Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Up, Up and Away - The 5th Dimension OK, this song is very specifically about a balloon. But it’s an airborne craft, so fine, I’m feeling generous. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 2:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/23 "2025-01-31T14:07:37Z")
It’s about flying ! 🎼🎵 “For we can fly, we can fly” etc. ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 2:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/24 "2025-01-31T14:09:17Z")
You’re absolutely right! I’ll upgrade your choice to 'good one!" ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/25 "2025-01-31T14:28:34Z")
10CC’s _Clockwork Creep_ is about a commercial jet flying with a bomb on board, sung from the point of view of the plane and the bomb. Most of the lyrics might be too disturbing for a flying-phobic, but these will do. _My landings are the envy_ _Of Sabena and Pan Am_ _From Chattanooga to Japan_ _I taxi through the airways_ _What a swell little plane_ _What a fine little plane_ _What a great little plane_ _I am_ ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 2:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/26 "2025-01-31T14:30:03Z")
Wilco - “Dash 7” Jason Isbell - “Flying Over Water” ---
**Author:** ![MindsEye\_Watering](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mindseye_watering/32/3619_2.png) [@MindsEye\_Watering](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MindsEye_Watering)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/27 "2025-01-31T14:44:25Z")
**Learning To Fly** - Pink Floyd _“Can’t keep my mind from the circling skies”_ _“Tongue-tied and twisted Just an earthbound misfit, I”_ ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/28 "2025-01-31T14:45:36Z")
The Royal Guardsmen are best known for “Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron,” but they seemed to have a minor obsession with planes. In addition to “Sopwith Camel Time,” they also recorded “Airplane Song (My Airplane)” and “Down Behind the Lines” (about a WWI pilot desperately trying to make it back to friendly territory before he runs out of fuel). ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/29 "2025-01-31T14:48:13Z")
Pere Ubu “[30 Seconds Over Tokyo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3WSrG4HwmZs)” ---
**Author:** ![running\_coach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/running_coach/32/15836_2.png) [@running\_coach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/running_coach)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 2:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/30 "2025-01-31T14:48:29Z")
> [@MrAtoz](#): > > The Royal Guardsmen are best known for “Snoopy Vs. the Red Baron, - I just about wore out that record in my extreme youth. ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/31 "2025-01-31T14:52:50Z")
Apparently there were a number of songs popular among WWI flight crews, some of them parodies. _A Poor Aviator Lay Dying_ was sung to the tune of _My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean_. _A poor aviator lay dying_ _At the end of a bright summer’s day_ _His comrades had gathered about him_ _To carry his fragments away_ _The airplane was piled on his wishbone_ _His Hotchkiss was wrapped round his head_ _He wore a spark-plug on each elbow_ _'Twas plain he would shortly be dead_ ---
**Author:** ![Hampshire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hampshire/32/4887_2.png) [@Hampshire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hampshire)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/32 "2025-01-31T15:00:54Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/UPgS26ZhqZs/hqdefault.jpg "Those Magnificent Men in their Flying Machines - Original theme song") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPgS26ZhqZs) ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 3:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/33 "2025-01-31T15:00:59Z")
> [@Jackmannii](#): > > Apparently there were a number of songs popular among WWI flight crews Speaking of WWI flyers, here’s a fairly obscure (I think) folk story song I’ve always loved called ‘Princes of the Clouds’ by James Keelaghan. It’s about a WWI flyer and his buddy who start a traveling ‘air aces’ show after the war, and have a blast for awhile. But, the good times don’t last forever… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/RXu46TGnZJY/maxresdefault.jpg "Princes of the Clouds") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXu46TGnZJY) ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/34 "2025-01-31T15:03:45Z")
Two Joni Mitchell songs: _This Flight Tonight_ _Amelia_ (about Amelia Earhart) and the Clash’s _Spanish Bombs_: _I’m flying in on a DC 10 tonight_ ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 3:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/35 "2025-01-31T15:08:44Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > Come Josephine in My Flying Machine I prefer the Spike Jones version. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/rhWfFiasRmQ/maxresdefault.jpg "Spike Jones and his City Slickers Come, Josephine, In My Flying Machine") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhWfFiasRmQ) ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 3:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/36 "2025-01-31T15:10:26Z")
> [@Skywatcher](#): > > > [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > > > Come Josephine in My Flying Machine > > I prefer the Spike Jones version > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhWfFiasRmQ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhWfFiasRmQ) Need I say it? Great username / post combo! ---
**Author:** ![minor7flat5](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/minor7flat5/32/258_2.png) [@minor7flat5](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/minor7flat5)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 3:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/37 "2025-01-31T15:15:07Z")
Antonio Carlos Jobim - “Samba do Avião” [Lyrics and back story](https://lyricalbrazil.com/2012/06/11/samba-do-aviao/)… [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/bQM-vP5BcGw/maxresdefault.jpg "Antonio Carlos Jobim - "Samba do Avião"") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bQM-vP5BcGw) ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/38 "2025-01-31T15:16:31Z")
ME 262 / Blue Öyster Cult ---
**Author:** ![Nars\_Glinley](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nars_glinley/32/8177_2.png) [@Nars\_Glinley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nars_Glinley)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/39 "2025-01-31T15:31:28Z")
Pink Floyd’s “The Hero’s Return” and “The Gunner’s Dream” are about flying but not in a good way. “Floating down, through the clouds Memories come rushing up to meet me now” He’s not really floating, he’s falling having just had his plane shot down. ---
**Author:** ![peccavi](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peccavi/32/388_2.png) [@peccavi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peccavi)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 3:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/40 "2025-01-31T15:33:29Z")
[Coming into Los Angeles](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRpj9mCl0qg) - Arlo Guthrie _Coming in from London, from over the pole_ _Flyin’ in a big airliner_ _Chickens flyin’ everywhere around the plane_ _Could we ever feel much finer?_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675.md?page=3)