Song: 3 Jap planes

The lyrics went like this:

"Listen, America, and you will hear,
the story of a boy who deserves a cheer.
I tip my lid to a Yankee kid,
for this is what he did:

Three Jap planes were up in the sky,
looking for trouble while flying high.
Along came a Yank and what did he do?
Ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack! ...and then there were two.
Two Jap planes, there used to be three.
Thought they'd get even, but suddenly,
the Yank turned around and gave 'em the gun:
Ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack! ...then there was one.
He clipped their wings with the greatest of skill,
just like a barber.
He did these things to prove, he still remembered Pearl Harbor.
The one Jap plane still left in the show,
thought he'd be safer in Tokyo.
But the Yank kept on 'til the job was done:
Ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack-ack! ...then there were none."


One thing I noticed while watching that scene recently on TCM, is that with the Closed Captioning turned on, I was amused to see that every time she sang "Jap planes" the CC had it written as "Jet planes." lol





"Nice beaver!"
"Thank you, I just had it stuffed." — The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

I noticed right away that the closed captioning said "Three Jet Planes", but thought that can't be right, they didn't have jet planes in 1943. I figured it was probably "Jap" and considered offensive nowadays, so I listened to Gracie Fields carefully and heard "Three Jap Planes".