Roger Miller Lyrics
"The Day I Jumped From Uncle Harvey's Plane"

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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