Air Force
Tin Pan Alley 80-712 · Sarasota, Florida
- Artist
- Mike Thomas
- Title
- Air Force
- Release
- Air Force / In the Presence of Your Smile
- Label
- Tin Pan Alley # 80-712
- Format
- 7" · Single
- Language
- English
- Country
- Sarasota, Florida, USA
- Songwriter
- Leola Buchwald
- Genre
- Rock · Folk Rock
- Primary theme
- Home Front Perspective / Soldier's Perspective
Annotation
Air Force (Thomas, Mike) song-poem, garage rock. Vietnam-era: man in the air force complaining about being distracted by women.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Annotation — Song Poems
- "Air Force" - Label: Tin Pan Alley # 80-712 - Songwriter: Leola Buchwald - song-poem, rock n roll - Vietnam-era: man in the air force complaining about being distracted by women.
Annotation by Justin A. Brummer
Lyrics
English: I've been stationed in the air force for over a year today / Now they have the women with me, and they nearly drive me astray / While I'm working on the motors they are handing me the tools / Now I've got to change the drive shaft, they've got me acting like a fool / Why can't we do something on our own before the night draws near / Without those women on our shoulders filling us with fear / Oh those women are a nuisance, each place I go they appear / Under the airplane I scamper, they are right there in the gear / Now while I'm up in the cockpit fixing an electrical part / The next thing I see is a girl, she's got the gauge in a cart
Notes
Tin Pan Alley Records TPA 80-712A, light-blue label, "Trade Mark Reg. U.S. Pat. Off."; "Air Force" (Leola Buchwald), published by Juke Box Alley, ASCAP; Tin Pan Alley, Inc., Sarasota, Florida, 33578. [From the record sleeve and labels]
About the artist
American song-poem vocalist: house singer for the New York-based Tin Pan Alley song-poem label in the 1960s, credited with recording thousands of song-poems, including many Vietnam-themed titles; 'A Fearless Soldier' (1967) was anthologised on Bear Family's 'Next Stop Is Vietnam' (2010). [Source: Bear Family 'Next Stop Is Vietnam' / song-poem collector archives]