The Day I Jumped From Uncle Harvey's Plane

Me 'n' Oliver 'n' Virgil was in the drugstore killing time



When my eyes fell upon this magazine



And I got to reading this article on sky-diving and parachuting



And it said jumping out of air-planes was the thing



Now being raised down on a farm and always ready for adventure



I knew that I could figure out a way



I said 'Well Delmer Gill's got a parachute and Uncle

Harvey's got an air-plane�



So I said 'Call the boys together, today's the day�



Well I found out too late what Uncle Harvey called an air-plane



Was nothing but an engine and a wing



And I could feel my fear a-rising as Delmer packed the parachute



'Cos he kept telling me I was doing the right thing



Ron McLoughlin shook my hand as JD strapped me in the harness



And Tildon brought a jug and passed it around



I took one look at that parachute and that whisky and that air-plane



And I turned that bottle up and drank it down



Well I was drunker'n Cooter Jones when they poured me in the plane



The engine coughed and headed for the clouds



But I was sober as a judge by the time they opened up the door



And I've never known my heart to beat so loud



I said, 'Harvey, I can't do it� as he kicked me out the door



And I wrapped my hands around the landing gear



And I was holding on real good 'til Harvey stepped down on my fingers



And Virgil said he heard me scream from way down there



Well I thanked God and Delmer Gill when my parachute finally opened



I said 'Well, hell there ain't no use in being afraid�



And I went crashing through the hen house,

scattering chickens and breaking eggs



And I kissed the ground and fainted dead away



Now friends I've done some fighting, and I've been shot at once or twice



And I've durn near been run over by a train



But I don't think I remember being any more afraid



Than the day I jumped from Uncle Harvey's plane