“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”
^^
That’s a good one! I love the Byrds version. Joan Baez did it too. I wish we had a Woody Guthrie today.
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.
More John Denver:
“In a spaceship over the mountains/
Chasing rainbows in the setting sun”
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.
Come Sail Away - Styx
I thought that they were angels
But to my surprise
We climbed aboard their starship
We headed for the skies
Jets At Dawn / Be Bop Deluxe
No, it’s not the Green Hornet:
Paul Revere and the Raiders The Great Airplane Strike
Gordon Lightfoot In the Early Morning Rain
“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
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):
“Tarotplane”- Captain Beefheart
“Angel From Montgomery”- John Prine
“Have You Seen The Saucers?”- Jefferson Airplane
And the very similarly named “Fly At Night” by fellow Canadian band Chilliwack.
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.
Thanks for posting that. I’ll bet it’s been close to 40 years since I heard that song!
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:
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?