# 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:** 7
**Author:** ![Crane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crane/32/3495_2.png) [@Crane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crane)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/121 "2025-01-31T21:16:47Z")
“The Plane Wreck at Los Gatos”, Woody Guthrie (Timely) Goodbye to my Juan, goodbye, Rosalita, Adios mis amigos, Jesus y Maria; You won’t have your names when you ride the big airplane, All they will call you will be “deportees” ---
**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, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/122 "2025-01-31T21:18:02Z")
^^ That’s a good one! I love the Byrds version. Joan Baez did it too. I wish we had a Woody Guthrie today. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/FNmn7jdbQwA/maxresdefault.jpg "The Byrds - Deportee (Plane Wreck At Los Gatos) (Audio)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FNmn7jdbQwA) ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/123 "2025-01-31T21:26:39Z")
[Genius.com](http://Genius.com) agrees Though the so-called White Album (as it only has The Beatles in light gray on the cover) doesn’t have lyrics - the Blue (second greatest hits) Album does. And to be pedantic about Paul’s flight - that plane would likely have been a 707 and would have had to stop in Shannon or London and refuel to make it anywhere in the USSR beside maybe - maybe Kaliningrad. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/124 "2025-01-31T21:27:20Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/fH6se_YY8f0/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGHIgUygqMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAzTmUYnIX7pgVRsXW0m35_AslHsg "Glow Girl - The Who") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fH6se_YY8f0) ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 9:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/125 "2025-01-31T21:27:25Z")
More John Denver: “In a spaceship over the mountains/ Chasing rainbows in the setting sun” [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/cchqzitIHp0/maxresdefault.jpg "How Can I Leave You Again") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cchqzitIHp0) ---
**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, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/126 "2025-01-31T21:30:08Z")
> [@Shoeless](#): > > Pretty sure that is “paper bag” (as in barf bag), not “paperback”. > [@Coriolanus](#): > > [Genius.com](http://Genius.com) agrees Yeah, definitely ‘paper bag’ as in ‘barf bag’. As someone who’s had to delay a flight due to a bout with a very bad stomach bug, and flew all the way back with the paper bag on my knee, I can relate. Fortunately I had no need of it, but man, I had a dreadful flight. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_Q](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/898d66/32.png) [@Johnny\_Q](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_Q)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/127 "2025-01-31T21:30:45Z")
[![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/J8AisTXgAGA/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGEQgWyhlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLA2T4CLL4tsFvwuvBzUXTHJVXCjmQ "The Long Winters/The Commander Thinks Aloud") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J8AisTXgAGA) ---
**Author:** ![kanicbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f8ce5/32.png) [@kanicbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kanicbird)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/128 "2025-01-31T21:31:44Z")
Come Sail Away - Styx _I thought that they were angels_ _But to my surprise_ _We climbed aboard their starship_ _We headed for the skies_ ---
**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, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/129 "2025-01-31T21:41:15Z")
_Jets At Dawn_ / Be Bop Deluxe ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 9:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/130 "2025-01-31T21:43:27Z")
No, it’s not the Green Hornet: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aYAJopwEYv8/maxresdefault.jpg "Rimsky Korsakov - Flight of the Bumblebee") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYAJopwEYv8) ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/131 "2025-01-31T21:49:29Z")
Paul Revere and the Raiders [**The Great Airplane Strike**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_B-lDavGF4) Gordon Lightfoot [**In the Early Morning Rain**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pqttl9aWm0) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/132 "2025-01-31T22:07:06Z")
[![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/xQCRskRt7NI/maxresdefault.jpg "You Belong To Me") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQCRskRt7NI) ---
**Author:** ![Johanna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johanna/32/8318_2.png) [@Johanna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johanna)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/133 "2025-01-31T22:10:20Z")
“Airplane” by Indigo Girls _I’d rather take a seat down there than a throne up here Up above thirty thousand feet_ “Tuesday Morning” by Melissa Etheridge. _A man is doing what he knows is right On Flight 93_ ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 10:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/134 "2025-01-31T22:16:44Z")
> [@solost](#): > > **Jet Airliner** > > - Steve Miller Band The original is worth checking out, too, which I prefer (though I have a praticular distaste for most things Steve Miller, so I may be biased. Still, I didn’t like this song until I heard the original): [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Cjr5U7g6aiA/hqdefault.jpg "Paul Pena - Jet Airliner (The Original)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjr5U7g6aiA) ---
**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:** [January 31, 2025, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/135 "2025-01-31T22:21:36Z")
“Tarotplane”- Captain Beefheart “Angel From Montgomery”- John Prine “Have You Seen The Saucers?”- Jefferson Airplane ---
**Author:** ![hogarth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hogarth/32/1773_2.png) [@hogarth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hogarth)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2025, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/136 "2025-01-31T23:14:37Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > “Fly By Night” - RUSH And the very similarly named “Fly At Night” by fellow Canadian band Chilliwack. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/7nYvmm0Ofmc/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AG-AoAC8AGKAgwIABABGEMgQyhlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLAUHEbeU0CQmvCtq0q2nejA2zisRg "Chilliwack (Fly At Night)...1977...Lyrics Provided Under Info:") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nYvmm0Ofmc) ---
**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, 11:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/137 "2025-01-31T23:42:18Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > The original is worth checking out, too, which I prefer (though I have a praticular distaste for most things Steve Miller, so I may be biased. Thanks, I didn’t even know the Steve Miller version was a cover, and I’m a guy who tells people “Y’know, Zep’s ‘When the Levee Breaks’ is actually a cover originally recorded as a country blues song by Memphis Minnie and Kansas Joe McCoy in 1929”. That is a nice version! Not sure if I like it better than the Steve Miller version though, since that’s the one I grew up with. Nostalgia really colors perceptions. ---
**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:** [February 1, 2025, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/138 "2025-02-01T00:17:05Z")
Thanks for posting that. I’ll bet it’s been close to 40 years since I heard that song! ---
**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 1, 2025, 12:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/139 "2025-02-01T00:30:01Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > I’ve seen The Stones five times in three different states. I was just scrolling back through the thread to see if I missed anything, and I totally overlooked this casually tossed-off sentence. Wow, Petty twice and the Stones 5 times in 3 states. I bet you have some stories! I saw the Stones in ‘81. I was 17, and though we loved the Stones, even then we were calling them old men. Jagger was 38! Despite how _ancient and decrepit_ those 30 or 40-something guys were, they put on a great show. Just to bring it back around and not keep hijacking my own thread: [The Rolling Stones - Flight 505](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sdqW1rkUXys) ---
**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 1, 2025, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675/140 "2025-02-01T00:47:03Z")
> [@solost](#): > > I saw the Stones in ‘81. I was 17, and though we loved the Stones, even then we were calling them old men. Jagger was 38! Despite how _ancient and decrepit_ those 30 or 40-something guys were, they put on a great show. I first saw the Stones in 1990 when they were close to hitting 50 and I was 22, and I thought they were really old men. Saw them again twice in 1995 when they were just over 50. They always delivered great shows, no doubt, but the age difference seemed so vast. Now I’m 56, retired and really have become an old fart, while they still rocked the stages lately, and although I’m not a saint, they lived more, let’s say, dangerous lives than me. How do they do that? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-about-planes-and-flying/1013675.md?page=8)