Key: G
Introduction:
Gbut
video recording his tuning seems to be about a quarter tone down. Watch out for the
slight change of pattern in the second lines of verses 6 and 7.
G D
There hasn't been much to do for a long time
C G D G
Someone won the war they say
C G Em
But he won't give thanks to you for thinking
A7 D
We're far better off that way
G D
For he wore the wings and the runway waited
C G D G
Spitfire flies like a bird of prey
C G Em
Heinkels come again for hunting
A7 D
As they did that far off May
G D
And he rummages through all the books in view
C G D G
The belts, the badges, after something new
C G Em
He reads the novels to remind him when
A7 D
He fought beside the best of men
G D
Ghosts and shades that haunt the memory
C G D G
Words he hears but can't recall
C G Em
A place that brings a face before him
A7 D
Names upon a billet wall
G D
One more year and the boys reunion
C G D G
Finds another face not there
C G Em
Still he wears the faded ribbon
A7 D
Of the Cross and the Croix de Guerre
G D
And he flies again with the boys in blue
G C G
The Few remaining of the very few
C G Em
He tells the tales that he's told before
A7 D
And he feels again the esprit de corps
G D
With his victory roll and a mounting toll
G C G
He's a fighter pilot with an aces soul
C G Em
He drinks with boys who will soon be men
A7 D
And he wakes at dawn, he flies again
G C G D
And he flies......... again
G D G D G
Able Baker, Charlie Two and Angels Ten,
G D G
And the fields of England pass beneath the men
D G
Who fly again, who fly again
D G
Who fly again, who fly again
D G D G
Who fly again, who fly again