11/2/09 - Steve Bryant

Twitter Post:
Song of the Day: Steve Bryant - Come Fly Northwest http://bit.ly/3NAOeT - To keep on distracted pilots.

Steve Bryant is a 58 year old political parodist from Brentwood, TN.  He has a lot of stuff up on his soundclick page, so you will want to check him out -- including an app which will play 64 of his songs.  And he can't be too bad -- he's a Heroes fan.


Like yesterday's song, this is about the two computer literate but aviation blind and deaf pilots of the Northwest Airplane that missed Minneapolis by 150 miles.  This one is based off of "Come Fly With Me" as performed by Frank Sinatra.



Lyrics:

 

Come Fly Northwest
(A parody of Come Fly With Me)
New lyrics by Steve Bryant

Come fly with me; let’s take that trip you planned.
We’ll do our best to avoid Northwest,
So we’ll know just where we land.
Come fly with me, the altitude is grand.

Come fly with me, we’ll float down to Peru.
Don’t be depressed, if we take Northwest.
And wind up in Timbuktu.
Our luggage will be in Kalamazoo.

Once they get us up there, we’ll get three peanuts in a bag,
They’ll taste like slag, we’ll just gag.
Once they get us up there, with the turbulence severe,
We may hear, all the people screaming “we’re gonna die.”

Otherwise, it’s been a lovely flight.
We hit some birds, it seemed so absurd,
The pilot hit them just for spite.
I wonder where he’s gonna land the plane tonight?
Screw Northwest, next time I’ll take a kite.