Rainy Day Flying chords by Gerry Goffin

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Verse 1
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Ten and Johnny told me
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it was easy to fly a phantom
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They told me how it looked to fly that plane
He just pulled back on the stick
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at the point of no return
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He never took his takeoff speed in vain
Just a little bit of flaps
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for his maximum rate of climb
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And his flight plan was always
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in plan
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Now on board the Phantom
was another man called the E .W .O.,
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which is  short for the Elec
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tronics Weapons Officer.
And he had the sorry task
of dropping your 250 to 500
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to 1 ,000 -pound bomb bombs.
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He also had the sorry task
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of firing the modern -day Gatling gun,
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which can fire air -to -air missiles
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in quick succession
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against your big 17s and 21s,
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which, if any good friendly
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fire would tell you,
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just couldn't touch you.
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Now, in all fairness to this electronic weapon officer,
Lieutenant John told me
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that he didn't really enjoy it,
especially when he had to drop
your anti -personnel bomb,
which exploded into shrapnel,
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broken glass, ball bearings,
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and kill any human or animal
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in a given radius,
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depending upon the size of the anti
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-personnel bomb used.
After each mission,
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Lieutenant John told me
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how he would go home
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and have a few beers with
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his buddies.
Just about everybody
expressed some distaste
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for what they were ordered to do.
Some wondered why they even
got into the whole thing at all.
Because there are a lot better things
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you can do with a beautiful airplane.
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He told me, cause I love the man who told me,
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love is mine.
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Lieutenant John had told me
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it was easy to fly a banner.
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Oh, he told me how he got to fly that plane.
He just pulled back on the stick
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at the point of no return
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And he never took his
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takeoff speed in vain
Just a little bit of flaps
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for his maximum rate of climb
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And his flight plan
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was always to be planned
Now rainy day flight
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didn't bother him at all
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Because he knew that rain
just like he knew the palm of