Peter, Paul & Mary singing ...Leaving On A Jet Plane

[mdpenn23]

awsome song , when you that someone never a had a clear chance to say goodbye , especially when have to leave town fast

[IndianaParkWars]

RIP Mary

[LarpwaffenNET]

love the music, dont like the video... the benefit of this music is poetic, vid is NOT

[TheLifeEvents]

When this came out, I was 13, living in Nairobi, and then sent to school in Devon, England! Shock, Horror! It had its place then.

BUT that seemed insignificant when I grew older, and I always imagined it to be a GI going to NAM , hoping he would come home safe to his family and girl.

I live in the UK, but have been to "The Wall" on Memorial Day, and know many of you did not make it.

Thanks for letting me share.

[MrPeterBurban]

Every time I left on a trip it usually involved a plane ride. Karachi, Tasmania, Spain, Hawaii, California,etc. As the plane was taking off I always sung this song to myself. I was already missing my family and the plane had not yet left the ground.

[cdinfm]

perfect love song.

[episkopi08]

A lovely song and nice video. Well done.

[OMEGAt43]

Just to clear everything up this song ( wich was peter paul and mary's most successful song EVER!) was written by john Denver for them

[Korvinski]

A place in time that society forgot . . . . when music was cool, groovy & innocent and lyrics were clean and people were pure and unspoiled . . . unlike today ~ how they serve our kids a bunch of FILTH where lyrics of gang-sta rap & hip hop- are full of profanity, recording artists are horny sexual beings portrayed in videos & pop stars are admired for getting into hot water with the law - WHAT kind of CRAPis that ??? Just another example of the deterioration of the very fabric that holds us up.

[SoreniusX]

is it original from john denver or from peter paul and mary??

[chambem53]

@SoreniusX  From John Denver

[2fletchers]

@SoreniusX John Denver wrote it, but the trio (PPM) had the first BIG hit with their version. It is nice to compare the versions to see how the writer himself interprets the same words. 

[1badsteed]

@SoreniusX John wrote it, was getting ready to pack it in and quit music. He let PPM record it, it was a smash hit, and he said to himself "I wrote that hit." He re-recorded it, and again it was a smash hit, this time for him.

[gazrobbo53]

love you Mary. Miss you lots

[smitty54017]

We'll never hear real harmony like this again. Very sad. :o(

[nielscarp]

To all American soldiers: who eventually leave on a jet plane...

[Alikah1]

@Helotes420 And to think I wasted two semesters studying philosophy!

[TazzzyA4]

"Big Boy.." Sorry, but I don't get your meaning when you ask/say "fought for freedom? or disclaimed interest...." Please clarify if you care to. I'll respond if you do.

Hey, Helotes... I can think of something sad about doughnuts. Actually two things....First, putting on weight. Second, heart disease.....

[lochidori]

nice and calming : D

[linnieverberne2]

So beautiful, love it.

[julia060285]

I'm born too late!!!

[aceangel2454]

@julia060285 I was born in 1981, I never think I was born too late because I get to enjoy it all from "begining to end"

[aluddite1]

nostalgia- it's not what it used to be. sweet vocals. but, I love the hell outta a good hymn, girl. lawdyjesus.

[TazzzyA4]

"donorgreeter?" What the fuck kind of name is that? And who the fuck are you to tell someone how to interpret art? Or maybe you didn't see that I was responding to what someone else had written... Or maybe its none of your fuckin' business.... What's the matter? Did you hate our Viet Nam vets like the rest of the liberals, like Hanoi Jane and John Kerry? The first thing you should do is go to school and learn how to have some class. The next is to mind your own business, esp whn you dn't KNOW..

[lovestimhawkins]

makes me cry

[aluddite1]

@lovestimhawkins - that makes me cry.

[kat3dev]

No one, absolutely no one, sings this song like Mary Travers...she was the BEST!

[ulipa1]

wonderful song and video :-)

[pbanta62]

Reminds me of mornings sitting on the sofa in my jammies next to my Dad, watching him sip his coffee before going to work, listening to these kind of songs on a big old console stereo. He worked at the Boeing Plant in Kent, WA until the big layoffs in 1970. He helped make the jet planes people left on!

[nanditeplus]

my uncle jumped in front of a train when he came back from being drafted into the vietnam "war" and found his wife and son had left him.another uncle dogded the draft because of his morals and went to canada.he killed himself too, because he couldn't handle the reality of the evils of this world.another uncle, agent orange.the other two won't talk about it... the whole thing was pointless...

[BushMass]

Ah, another song from the Vietnam era when a young Marine (me) was left behind by an Irish lovely...time does not always heal wounds...

[TheDirtball524]

@BushMass Sorry to hear, Devildog. I was lucky. I served in afganistan, with the Marine Corps, and my wife was here waiting for me with my 2 kids. Thank God we came home safe, as many of our brothers didn't. God Bless, and Semper Fi.

[BushMass]

@TheDirtball524 Thanks, Bro'! Semper Fi!!

[TheDirtball524]

@BushMass I was in the Marines from 1992 to 1996 active duty, then the Reserves from 1996 to 2003. I was an E-5 when I got out, I really miss it. My brother is still in, he is a lifer. He did two tours in Iraq, and one in Afganistan. He is an E-7. (Gunny). I literaly drove through the Berkshires in the wee hours this morning, on I-90. I am a driver for Yellow Freight. I have been there for 16 years.

[winifredatwell]

One of the most perfect pop records of all times. I saw P P and M do this live in Brisbane Australia in 1987. Somewhere in the crowd a deep voiced man was sobbing.

[nauort23]

What place is this plane leaving?  Great video, btw.

[larky1690]

Hold me like you'll never let me go. Shakespere never did manage to write a line like that.



[TheLadyjazzy1]

classic song! remember this song in High School

[TazzzyA4]

Thanks, dontgupt20...... These guys deserve all the love we can give 'em. The put it all on the line for us and America... Let's not let ANYONE forget that...

[ozarksangel]

This song always reminds me of my Dad leaving on one of his 3 tours of vietnam. Mom was left with 3 young kids and not knowing if her husband would make it back.

I remember sitting on the front porch steps every night waiting for my Daddy to come home.

He did, all 3 times :) Now he suffers from the effects of the agent orange he was exposed to. God Bless all of our Veterans and Current Service Men and Women.

[Kevierae]

@ozarksangel : My father only went to Vietnam once. That year nearly drove my mother crazy. But we 4 kids learned a lot about our character and our resolve, and, we were always grateful that he came home to us. I'm so sorry to hear about your Dad's current condition. Please give him a message that he is in my thoughts & prayers, and that I thank him with all my heart, for his service to our country. You take good care of yourself.

[fairbanksangel]

@Kevierae Thank you so very much. Make sure you thank your Father for me as well.

Our poor mothers had quite a cross to bear and I know that us kids didn't always make it easier on them :)

My Mom used to take out an 8x10 of my Dad and play his recorded messages to us when she would receive them in the mail :)

Thank you for your kind words!!

[SHEMEANzEVRyTHANG2ME]

When I was watching "Saving Private Ryan", and when i heard the song "Tu Es Partout", it some how reminded me of when they Mary sings the title of this song.

[1559godhead]

I don´t normally like John Denver´s songs mbut this is sublime and poignantly performed by Mary Travers.

[53daydreambeliever]

so beautiful, have to listen intently to the words....

[riteasrain]

beautifully done, thank you! I love this song!

[pbanta62]

I left on a jet plane in 1999 and now I'm stuck in friggin' icebox Pennsylvania. I'm ready for another ride.

[findthetruthamerica]

I left on a Jet Plane in 1969, thank God I made it Back.

[findthetruthamerica]

Bring all of our children Home Right now and Defend our Sovereign United States Borders and at Sea, without a Congressional Declaration of WAR, since 1942.

[ILYATWTHAB]

Thanks for upoloading this! Wow, the memories and heartache. '69, the draft, Vietnam. My HSchool sweetheart had the cab driver park outside the window to my room while this song played before leaving for boot camp. He choked up and didn't tap on my window. I wish I'd known he was there.  Both our hearts got broken. I'm still proud of him, more than ever, he enlisted before his draft # came up. I thank God for those who served for our freedom.

[CaneFu]

I have been seeing a woman for the last 10 years who lives more than a thousand miles away - she makes 4 plane trips a year to see me and she also happens to be a great singer - and this song is all too true for our goodbyes at the end of every visit. We are LIVING this song by now.

[ziggywalrus]

lol @ 10 downing street :'-D

[Nekojin0]

Sad thing is.. I love this song, but I cant STAND to FLY! no really! I really dont like to fly, but I will do it, I just dont like it!

[TazzzyA4]

Cont'd, Wilcarr...You were spurned and cruelly villified by parts of society who at worst, were stoned and stupid, and at best were well meaning but uninformed and aimed their venom in the wrong place... You are a man amongst men.You fought for you country and you helped it uphold its values of freedom and bravery.Thank God you made it and thank God you had your wife when you got back.God bless you and all the others who have fought for freedom. Both theones lucky enough to cme bck, and those nt

[Dontgupt20]

@TazzzyA4 ...Very well said and I cosign.

[russionanacho]

@TazzzyA4 Very well said indeed, this is my whole family's favorite song and i pray that it will be my son's favorite to when he grows up to understand.

[donorgreeter]

@TazzzyA4 It's just a song not a way of life...nice writing nothing more... maybe you need to look at what moves you other than a song

[bigman6970kt]

@TazzzyA4 fought for freedom ?? or for disclaimed interest.

[TazzzyA4]

Dear Wilcarr, Plain and simple, thanks for serving. Thanks for putting it ALL on the line for me. For us. For AMERICA. Every TIME I hear a story involving the sacrifice of our service people, I cry, as I do every time I hear this song.Our kids, like you , left behind beautiful mates, children, lives to die for me. To even return home but perhaps lose ALL as you pointed out. And I'll never let that go unsung. Especially Nam era guys bc you got fucked. And you came home to the likes of Fnda &Krry

[wilcarr1]

reading these responses over this song I believe many of us Vietnam vets lost something on our return and for some it was wives, girlfriends, friends. I was lucky enough to return and my wife was still there and still married to her this day and I was only 20 when I left for Vietnam and served as a infantryman in 1968. When I hear this song it reminds me of landing at Ben Hoa at night and the heavy musty feel of the air as I deplaned into the unknown and the fear of never coming back.

[Kevierae]

@wilcarr1 I'm so glad you came back, that you and your wife are still together, and that you shared your story with us. My father was there in 1966. It was the worst year of our lives. My mother nearly went crazy. There are 4 of us kids. I was 16. He came home, but as a family, we were never the same again. But he came home and for the first and only time in my life, I got misty eyed when I saw him walking off that plane. I salute all the men & women who serve our country. Be well and take care.

[Dontgupt20]

@wilcarr1 ...thank you for your comment. The way the Vietnam vets were treated was "all kinds of wrong".

They didn't initiate the war, again mindless people putting the blame were it doesn't belong.

For those people that will say some... atrocities were committed during that war.......well.....atrocities are committed on a daily basis but we do not blame all of humanity for those actions...neither should we blame all the military for a few that went wrong.

[Firnaranwen]

nice version. still prefer JD's for some reason...

[chochollyk]

I first heard this song approximately 20 minutes after my then-husband walked out our front door. He was driving to Camp Pendleton (Marine Corps base), to head out the next day to Vietnam. I sat and sobbed and prayed for a while after I heard it.

When I listen to the lyrics now, I still get teary-eyed.

[MrGrif009]

This reminds me of 30 years in Abu Dhabi when the hotel band in the Holiday Inn sang this as part of their set every night.

Great memories

[katochnr]

@MrGrif009 30 years in an Abu Dhabi hotel!! gulp ..

[taamconner]

Had just joined the Navy & met this girl. Things got hot, fell in love, about the time the song disappeared from the top 40s, so did the girl. Still remember her when I hear the song.

[TheSkyPaint]

Great song... but that photo of Downing Street has just totally confused me... made me imagine Gordon Brown singing this. :S

[trollerguy]

Sure was happy during this time. Later got orders to Vietnam. The great looking girl I was with at the time just quit writing me about 3 months in country. Came back... took her out long enough to ask for my ring back and took her back home. Never had anything to do with her again. Strange after being so close it all fell away...I never was the same person after that event. Trust was gone.....

[desolationrow]

Heh. The views have been up about 10000 since the advent of TV and more specifically that show 'glee'

[supercarXXX]

You lot always seem to think that this song is about war or death or military stuff.

Its not. its about saying goodbye to a loved one...

[jimtraner]

@supercarXXX That's because you've never climbed on a plane to go to war I suspect. That may be the single hardest step a lot of us have ever taken.

[homelesshair2001]

this is so better than the glee version

[wilcarr1]

Wow, this is one of songs brings the memory of Oakland Army base in California 1968 and I waited to board a jet for Southeast Asia and this song was playing almost everywhere you went. Thousands of young men shipped out of Oakland Army base and the part in the song of I don't know when I'll be back again rang so true of all us. If there is one song that reminds me of Vietnam this is it.

[MultiAdhya]

i luv this song

[NobodyFucksWithJesus]

Good song.

[almee16]

Thank you so much-I LOVE this song, and its so hard to find!

[uriaheep22]

i sang this song on karaoke night and got a huge applause it was not me but the song!

[megapaulsimon]

@uriaheep22 i know . i heard you

[dougtrav1]

this is my favorite song ever! it is also my favorite version

[BeantownJim]

favorited

[bilahn]

Has their ever been a woman with a more beautiful voice than Mary Travers? Gorgeous, perfect singing, beautifully performed and arranged all around.

(One negative, I could do without Peter Yarrow's background wailing).

[gazrobbo53]

Rest in peace Mary. Never saw you live. A big regret. Lots of lovexx

[born2beacamper]

great song, listened to this since i was about 6 and fell in love with it :)

[cassmcclaine]

I listened to this with my mom. Then I had a hippy for a music teacher in the 80's. That was spectacular!

[cassmcclaine]

@cassmcclaine she even took her acoustic out and sat on the playground with us! 1985-1989

[tineagle3]

Memories! Vietnam 1967

[Holfti]

Thank you so much for uploading this. This is the song I listen to when I want to relax or have had a bad day. It always makes my day better... and it's a great song to boot.

[daddyoj]

Hard to find- Thanks for posting

[imtherealkimera]

I just Love this song...

[titiritiando1]

kiss me and smile for me .........so many times I let you down so many times i played around I'll tell you now they don't mean a thing every place i go I think of you......so I'm leaving on a jet plane and I don't know when I'll be back again oh babe I hate to go

[captnswing]

Great post! Not only a great John Denver song and a beautiful performance from Peter, Paul and Mary, but an INCREDIBLE recording. If you haven't done so, have a listen to their original recording on a really good set of headphones - It will just blow you away :)

[milliondollarredhead]

I used to play guitar & sing this...hehe! It's a fairly easy song to play...'cause I'm no guitar girl! But THIS is lovely, Gup! Beautiful video, too! BIG WHITE SPARKLY STARS all over the place of this! ;) Love, Red

[menana2u]

Beautiful! Always loved this song and the pics are fantastic! Great job, Gup!

[faydog2010]

thank you my friend god bless you and enjoy i love this video i will wait fot you guppy

see you soon my friend kiss me @2.17@3.24 fav cheers sean tumbs up:-))