Lyrics:

Sergeant Foster, tell me now straight
4,000 pounds of fire and we're in over bred
You say you don't believe we'll ever get her off the ground
Don't worry, Sergeant, she ain't never let me down
No, she ain't never let me down


Up there with the birds and the angels and the bombs
89 missions and I ain't 21
Thinking of my mother and the girl I left behind
Come on, silver darling, we were born to fly
Yeah, we were born to fly

And my Catherine, carry me on your wings
To Lake Michigan in childhood dreams
Red, narrow, highway, cut right through our town
Nothing but blue skies and fire on the ground
Nothing but blue skies and fire on the ground

Remember them German boys from Chicago town
Marching down Main Street and nobody made a sound
Wasn't but a child then, and I ain't much older now
Looking back to the smoking flames I never saw coming down
No, I never saw coming down

And my Catherine, carry me on your wings
To Lake Michigan in childhood dreams
Red, narrow, highway, cut right through our town
Nothing but blue skies and fire on the ground
Nothing but blue skies and fire on the ground

Navel across the ocean, been all around this land
Born to do a riddling, got drunk in Paris, France
Lost alone around the river, can't be much longer now
Have you heard the news today, we're all heroes now
Yeah, we're all heroes now

And my Catherine, carry me on your wings
To Lake Michigan in childhood dreams
Red, narrow, highway, cut right through our town
Nothing but blue skies and fire on the ground
Nothing but blue skies and fire on the ground