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Old Number Nine - Oscar Brand

Twas a dark and stormy night

Not a star was there in sight

All the Mustangs were tied down to the line

When a lonely volunteer

Stood in mud up to his ear

He'd orders to fly old Number Nine

Well his back was racked

With pain as he climbed into the plane

A lonely tear was forming in his eye

And he offered up a prayer

As he climbed into the air

He knew this would be his night to die

As he flew over Hagaru

He let loose a bomb or two

And he figured that he ought to call it quits

But how was he to know

That he's fly so doggone low

That the bomb blast

Would blow his plane to bits

In the wreckage he was found

Thinly spread around the ground

The Crunchies they raised his weary head

With his lifetime almost spent

Here's the message that he sent

To the buddies who'd be sad

To see him dead

I used an eight to ten delay

But it didn't work that way

Without a tail a Mustang doesn't fly

Tell the Skipper now for me

He's got only twenty-three

He can roll up the ladder Semper Fi