Brave Captain -

A statue of a young man

De antly stands

Glove held in left hand

With an Angel close by his shoulder

At the stroke of midnight When no one’s in sight Beneath the oodlights What

does she whisper?

What has he told her?

Sunshine through the leaves Back in '73

With my parents and we were eating ice cream

in the shade of the old trees

I asked «Who was he?»

My Dad said to me

«Although he was only twenty,

he was a hero who’d died for his country»

Well, you should have seen me Who would believe me now?

Racing around the

castle grounds Wild imagination in full ight My arms stretched wide

I’ll be a brave Captain of the Skies

You were a ying ace

from the history books Thrilling deeds and dashing looks Ful lling your destiny

Simply doing your duty

for King and Country

You were the poster boy

who shunned your own fame

Who didn’t take to the accolades Even when propaganda

screamed your name

You believed celebrity to be nonsense You were a loner, a solitary man

Practical minded

and good with your hands

Your letters sent home

revealed, this weapon had a conscience

Until at long last your plane emerges from out of the low cloud

Inverted

Flying upside-down

Too close to the ground to recover Heading earthbound

No engine sound

Black smoke trailing

Silently falling down Brave Captain of the Skies

Brave Captain of the Skies