KEEP 'EM FLYING
(Bill Coleman)

Johnny Desmond (with Gene Krupa & his Orchestra)

Also recorded by : Roy Eldridge.


Keep `em flying, keep `em in the sky
Keep `em flying, hitting hard and high
On every lip, the fervent cry
Keep `em flying Uncle Sam

Keep `em flying, every headline screams
Keep `em flying, army fighting teams
On thirty thousand different beams
Keep `em flying Uncle Sam

(Orchestral Interlude)

(Spoken)
So mount to the cabin
Give it the gun.
Home with the Air Corps
To the sun

(Sung)
Keep `em flying clear the hangar floor
Keep `em flying, spread your wings once more
From pole to pole, from shore to shore
Let thirty thousand motors roar
And thirty thousand eaglets soar
Keep `em flying Uncle Sam


(Transcribed by Bill Huntley - February 2005)