My stepmothers huge family has always sung this at their annual family reunion and I never realized it was about whorehouses until I was in high school and started putting two and two together!
Odd choice for a family singalong, don't you think?
October 14, 2020, 09:23 PM
recoatlift
Not odd at all. I live in WV.
October 15, 2020, 05:03 PM
kcl1960
Thats my ringtone on my phone!!
October 15, 2020, 05:40 PM
Ace31
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Originally posted by recoatlift: Not odd at all. I live in WV.
Ha Ha Ha...I am from WV too and heard many sing it here.
At first I thought the perspective of this song was from aging pilots in the footage of the fighter planes. I looked up Eric Burdon's bio and he was born in 1941 so might have some childhood memories of war fears.
October 16, 2020, 10:28 AM
maxdog
Many years ago when “Sky Pilot” came out a WWII vet told me a Sky Pilot was military slang for a chaplain.
October 16, 2020, 01:01 PM
Ripley
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Originally posted by maxdog: Many years ago when “Sky Pilot” came out a WWII vet told me a Sky Pilot was military slang for a chaplain.
Wow, seems so obvious listening to it now. "Sky Pilot" was on the radio at the height of Nam and I just passed it off as a rather ham-handed anti-war song when such songs were everywhere. Not to say it wasn't anti-war, it was, but something more than one-dimensional.
Set the controls for the heart of the Sun.
October 19, 2020, 02:26 PM
PASig
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Originally posted by maxdog: Many years ago when “Sky Pilot” came out a WWII vet told me a Sky Pilot was military slang for a chaplain.
It is for the Brits
I’ve never heard a US chaplain referred by that term.
