"Toy Planes and Rubber Bands"
lyrics and music by Benjamin Newman

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Search the map, set the tap
Bottle up the gum tree sap
Boil it down to sticky tack
Draw out a strand of gum

If there's brimstone in the pot
And something else that I forgot
Ten tons of tension 'til it's taut
Now wind it on a drum

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	When we were young, we used to launch
	Toy planes from rubber bands
	Now, with the wind to wind our strands
	The open sky is in our hands

Rumor tells that war is nigh
A desperate war, but we must try
And one keen-sighted, airborne eye
Could turn the tide around

An eye to watch the massing foe
And tell us where it's safe go
Two canvas wings, a radio
And a prop that's good and wound

	When we were young, we used to launch...

Wings of cloth can't bear freight
Nor a heavy engine's weight
Wings of wood may come too late
Our country needs us now

Strands of gum, cooked up right
Stretched out long and wound up tight
Drive a plane that's fast and light
With a spotter in her bow

	When we were young, we used to launch...

Five long years, war is won
Land secure and battle done
An age of peace at last begun
Bought by a flyer's skill

War is past, the sky remains
Rubber bands and paper planes
Wings and windings in our veins
And we are flyers still

	When we were young, we used to launch...