Words to "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen"?
Matt Cole
Does anyone have the words to the song:
"Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen"?
Thanks.
Matt Cole
Scoutmaster, Troop 16
Falling Waters, WV
mbc...@erols.com
Joseph B. Swartz
Matt Cole wrote:
> Does anyone have the words to the song:
>
> "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen"?
>
Up in the air Junior Birdmen
Up in the air upside down
Up in the air Junior Birdmen
With your noses to the ground.
When you hear that big announcement
That you can win your wings of tin
Then you will know Junior Birdmen
That it is time to send your box tops in.
For it takes four box tops, three bottle bottoms, and one thin dime.
[An infantry song from WWII that made its way into Scout Camp????]
YiS
Joe
Stephen M. Henning
> Does anyone have the words to the song:
>
> "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen"?
Into The Air Junior Bird Men
Into the air junior bird men.
Into the air upside down.
Into the air junior bird men
With your noses to the ground.
And when you hear the grand announcement
That your wings are made of tin,
You will know the junior bird men
Have turned their box tops in.
For it takes five box tops,
Four bottle bottoms,
Three wrappers,
Two labels,
And one thin dime.
Ah ah ah ah ah ah ah
------
The last line is where you act like you are shooting a machine gun from an
airplane.
These words are from George Pinkey who sang these words as a Scout in the
50's in Hometown, Pennsylvania, and subsequently served as a Scoutmaster.
Today he is a District Commissioner and keeps these traditional songs
alive wherever he goes.
--
Cheers, Steve Henning, Reading, Pennsylvania, USA
Correct email address is shen...@fast.net (Please forgive my spam deterrent)
Visit my home page at http://www.users.fast.net/~shenning
Frank J Nastro
Matt Cole wrote:
>
> Does anyone have the words to the song:
>
> "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen"?
>
Up in the air junior birdmen
Up in the air upside down
Up in the air junior birdmen
have got there noses to the ground
And when they hear the grand anouncment
That there wings are made of tin
You can be sure the Junior birdmen have sent there box tops in.
It takes 5 boxtops
4 bottle bottoms
3 labels
2 bottle tops
and 1 thin dime
Frank J Nastro
Scoutmaster Troop 23 Brigantine NJ
The Virtual Turtle
Piece of cake! We've been singing it for years here at Camp Resolute in
Bolton, MA
Up to the air, Junior Birdman.
Up to the air, upside down.
Up to the air, Junior Birdman,
with your nose down to the ground
And when you hear the grand announcement,
that your wings are made of tin,
then you will know Junior Birdman,
its time to turn your boxtops in.
For it takes 5 boxtops,
4 bottle-bottoms
3 wrappers,
2 labels
and 1 thin dime!
Sing and enjoy!
Steve Rugoletti, Assistant. Scoutmaster, Troop 2, Milford MA
tur...@de-inc.com
Matt Cole <mbc...@erols.com> wrote in article <33F26A...@erols.com>...
danh...@millcomm.com
And of course before singing this you make (and hold) the Birdmen sign:
Hold thumb and forefinger together on both hands to make the "A-OK" sign,
then raise elbows up and twist wrists so that you can catch the pinky and
ring fingers of each hand under your chin. Continue raising elbows and
rotating wrists until you the thumb-forefinger circles encircle your eyes.
(It's a lot easier if you're young and limber, or at least if you practice
it a lot.)
In <33F27229...@apk.net>, "Joseph B. Swartz" <jsw...@apk.net> writes:
>Matt Cole wrote:
>
>> Does anyone have the words to the song:
>>
>> "Up in the Air, Junior Birdmen"?
>>
>
>Up in the air Junior Birdmen
>Up in the air upside down
>Up in the air Junior Birdmen
>With your noses to the ground.
>
>When you hear that big announcement
>That you can win your wings of tin
>Then you will know Junior Birdmen
>That it is time to send your box tops in.
>
>For it takes four box tops, three bottle bottoms, and one thin dime.
>
>[An infantry song from WWII that made its way into Scout Camp????]
>
>YiS
>Joe
>
>
Dan Hicks
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http://www.millcomm.com/~danhicks
Bruce Hietbrink
I seem to remember singing:
Up in the air, Junior Birdmen
Up in the air, flying high
Up in the air, Junior birdmen
Flap your wings up in the sky!
Like Dan mentioned, you make the birdman mask, and on the last
line you flap your elbows up and down for wings. Perhaps this
was a variant native to Nebraska church camps.
YIS
Bruce Hietbrink
