Did not know that, thanks!
OK, this song is very specifically about a balloon.
But it’s an airborne craft, so fine, I’m feeling generous.
It’s about flying !
“For we can fly, we can fly” etc.
You’re absolutely right! I’ll upgrade your choice to 'good one!"
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
Wilco - “Dash 7”
Jason Isbell - “Flying Over Water”
Learning To Fly
- Pink Floyd
“Can’t keep my mind from the circling skies”
“Tongue-tied and twisted Just an earthbound misfit, I”
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).
Pere Ubu “30 Seconds Over Tokyo”
I just about wore out that record in my extreme youth.
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
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…
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
I prefer the Spike Jones version.
Need I say it?
Great username / post combo!
ME 262 / Blue Öyster Cult
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.
Coming into Los Angeles - 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?