A popular song from 1917.
Words by Stanley Murphy.
Music by Harry Tierney.
Sheet music provided by Nicholas Leunissen:
Accompaniment by James Pitt-Payne:
Lyrics
- There never was a greater aviator than McCue
Sure he knew what to do
And bedad he did it, too
For he’d been shootin’ Teutons
And his aim was straight and true
But for his native land his heart was blue
‘Tis fine this aviation, says Mack, but in my heart
I’m glad it’s my vacation so I’ll start
Chorus
Goodbye, I won’t be long
Be bold and brave and strong
For after I go to Sligo
I’ll soon be with you again
My blushing Irish bride
A-sailing by my side
For I know she’ll go
Wherever I go
In my Irish Aeroplane
- McCue went thru the lines
And flew away to his home town
When he went sailing down
All the neighbors gather’d round
And there he spied his blushing bride
And Father Daly, too
And soon the wedding service it was through
And then the happy couple
Bade goodbye to Erin’s Isle
And both of them were singing all the while
Sung here by Vancha March: