WWII Marine Fighter Pilot Drinking Songs

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:18 pm

A while back someone started a thread about the songs sung by the pilots of Marine fighter squadrons in the Pacific in WWII.
They were looking for copies of some of these great ditties. We'll this past week I've been going through a couple of the last boxes I
had in storage after our house fire. Well guess what I found...that's right the songbook of VMF-122.
Every song they ever though up (or drunk up) are here. Some one these musical greats are ''The Wiffenpoof Song'', ''Drunk Last Night'',
''I Want A Girl'', ''After Rabaul Is Over'', ''Virgin Sturgeon'', ''Ring Dang Doo'', ''Drunken Sailor'' and ''Frigg'in In The Rigg'in''.
Who ever was looking for these please ID yourself.

bobbrunn · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 9:50 pm

I didn't post originally but I am interested .

michaelharadon · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 10:33 pm

Same here. Do you have "Marianne, Queen of All The Acrobats"?

Stoney · **Posted:** Tue Jun 02, 2009 11:56 pm

Lt Col Tom Mooney USMC ret (WGFP) "Worlds Greatest Fighter Pilot" by his own admission, been in four wars, three of which he started himself use to sing to us down in Mexico after a few drinks. He and Lt Col Danny Johnson and Major Hal Grey, both ret USMC were in the same F4U Squadron in WW II and they all flew in Catch 22. Most were Oscar Brand songs, those were the days.

Randy Haskin · **Posted:** Wed Jun 03, 2009 12:30 am

michaelharadon wrote:

Same here. Do you have "Marianne, Queen of All The Acrobats"?

Quote:

Mary Ann Bums is the queen of all acrobats
She can do tricks that would give a man the sh*ts.
She can roll green peas off her fundamental orifice,
Do a double back-flip and catch them in her t*ts.
She's a great big son-of-a-bitch, oh, twice as big as me,
Hairs around her a$$ like branches on a tree.
She can swim, fish, fight, f*ck, fly a plane, drive a truck,
Mary Ann Bums is the girl for me.

michaelharadon · **Posted:** Wed Jun 03, 2009 1:19 am

Thanks, Randy!

I think I know what she's so acrobatic at... :lol:

Glyn · **Joined:** Mon Feb 14, 2005 12:23 am **Posts:** 321

Is the ballad of 'Maggies Drawers' among them?
"They were tattered, they were worn, by thr Bung-hole they were torn..."

Sasquatch · **Posted:** Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:35 pm

Me too Jack!

"Born on a mountain top,
Raised in a cave...
Fightin' and f*ckin'
Is all that I crave..."

Django · **Posted:** Thu Jun 04, 2009 3:52 pm

It was me!!!!!!!!

Wow, if I were closer I'd kiss you. Ok, maybe just a hug. Or a firm handshake.

That freakin' rules.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:15 pm

I'll look at the songs tonight. What I'll do is start by sending it to
Django and he can them pass it on to the next person who want to see it.
Just so it eventually lands back at homebase

This originally belonged to 1Lt Don Wilson one of the members of the 122 glee club.
Did I mention that his Corsair had a naked lady painted on the cowl :?:

Chris Brame · **Posted:** Thu Jun 04, 2009 4:27 pm

I have an EP (that's four songs on a 45... what's a 45? oh never mind) and a couple of the songs were "I Wanted Wings (till I got the GD things)" and "Miss VD of Guam" - gotta transcribe those someday.

Hey, even Bing Crosby got a little blue with his 7th Air Force song ("you can bet your a$$").

evanflys · **Joined:** Mon May 25, 2009 11:07 pm **Posts:** 78

My friend Bill Getz put together a book of flying songs from WWI through Vietnam. Actually, he did two but he said I wasn't old enough for the second one! It has the dirty lyrics in it! :oops:

Anyway he gave me a copy. It has over 800 songs in it!

It's called "The Wild Blue Yonder: Songs of the Air Force"
the ISBN # is 0941196003

You guys will like my interview with him too! He flew a tour in B-24's and then Mustangs as a Scout over Germany! (bagged an ME-262!)

Evan

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Thu Jun 04, 2009 9:51 pm

Quote:

Do you have "Marianne, Queen of All The Acrobats"? Is the ballad of 'Maggies Drawers' among them?

Sorry there not included but a couple other classics are like
''Crash on the Runway'', ''The Officer's Ride'', ''One Ball Reilly''' and ''Violate Me'' :shock:

There are 71 songs in 2 sections ie ''OK for your sainted grandmother'' and ''Byestanders will not be innocent''.

1Lt Don Wilson VMF-122 Pelilu 1945 & F4U-1D #600 ''Dragon Lady"

Django · **Posted:** Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:16 pm

Jack, how does this work? Is this an electronic thing, or do you need a mailing address, or? Let me know.

Jack Cook · **Posted:** Fri Jun 05, 2009 2:28 pm

I just have the orignal songs in their binder so snail mail it is.
When your CD of them come out I want a copy!

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