COME JOSEPHINE, IN MY FLYING MACHINE
(Alfred Bryan / Fred Fischer)

Ada Jones, Billy Murray & The American Quartet - 1911
Blanche Ring - 1911
Harry Tally - 1911
Spike Jones & His City Slickers - 1942
Máire Brennan (feat. in the film "Titanic") - 1997


Oh! Say! Let us fly, dear
Where, kid? To the sky, dear
Oh you flying machine
Jump in, Miss Josephine
Ship ahoy! Oh joy, what a feeling
Where, boy? In the ceiling
Ho, High, Hoopla we fly
To the sky so high

Come Josephine in my flying machine
Going up she goes! Up she goes!
Balance yourself like a bird on a beam
In the air she goes! There she goes!
Up, up, a little bit higher
Oh! My! The moon is on fire
Come Josephine in my flying machine
Going up, all on, Goodbye!

One, two, now we're off, dear
Say you pretty soft, dear
Whoa! dear don't hit the moon
No, dear, not yet, but soon
You for me, Oh Gee! you're a fly kid
Not me! I'm a sky kid
See I'm up in the air
About you for fair

Come Josephine in my flying machine,
Going up she goes! Up she goes!
Balance yourself like a bird on a beam
In the air she goes! There she goes!
Up, up, a little bit higher
Oh! My! The moon is on fire
Come Josephine in my flying machine
Going up, all on, Goodbye!

Come Josephine in my flying machine,
Going up she goes! Up she goes!
Balance yourself like a bird on a beam
In the air she goes! There she goes!
Up, up, a little bit higher
Oh! My! The moon is on fire
Come Josephine in my flying machine
Going up, all on, Goodbye!


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As recorded by Spike Jones & His City Slickers with
vocals by King Jackson & The Boys In The Back Room:


Come Josephine, in my flying machine
Going up, she goes! Up she goes!
Balance yourself like a bird on a beam
In the air she goes; there she goes!
Up, up, a little bit higher.
Oh, my! The moon is on fire.
Come, Josephine in my flying machine
Going up, all on, "Goodbye"

(Spoken – accompanied by boogie woogie on piano)

(Say don't you know you can't get Josephine with that old corny jive
in 1917? Why, Man, if you wanna hug and a kiss you're gonna have to
sing it to her like this.)

I'm goin', Josephine, in my great big B19
For my Uncle Sam, yes I am
I'm goin' to fight for you
And the Red and the White and blue
You can count on me, yes siree
I'm flyin' in any direction
For my country's protection
I'm goin', Josephine, in my great big B19
Fare thee well, don't you cry, bye bye.


(Contributed/Transcribed by Bill Huntley - October 2005)


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