Black Velvet (Life's Eternal War Song?) Cover me Canada when I'm gone

The death of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il to usher an end to the war with the South?
Rewrite of the words of "Black Velvet" originally by David Tyson and Christopher Ward, and recorded by Alannah Myles in 1988. An Elvis Presley inspired song originally? . ....Harper John now resets the scene to the Korean War ...where a young Canadian dare devil jet pilot from Quebec pays the ultimate price. Was it the whiskey, the war or the women that became his new religion, turned his mind? Any likeness to the hard drinking, then Montreal based, Billy Bishop who tried to enlist for the Korean War or the fictional comic character Major Dan Cooper, a French Canadian pilot in the Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) or D. B. Cooper the legendary Boeing 727 skyjacker is purely delusional. Johnny Canuck, the symbolic uber-hero of this song, is also the name of a Canadian comic-book character introduced "back in the 40's" , a muscular air force captain and secret agent who defended Canadians from the Nazis. The RCAF Memorial Museum at Trenton has several items from the "back in the 50s era" including a surviving black Velvet Glove air-to-air missile. Incidentally, the Avro CF-100 "Canuck" interceptor was used to test the VELVET.
And now .... bringing it right up to date, how will the Afghanistan Canadian returnee forces cope with their new lives? Also THE LAST HURRAH for the Canadian Korean War Veterans was held in late August 2011 in Winnipeg.
This Life's Eternal War Song Version was written and recorded on the fly .... The band, by the way, is SLOE....
Words:
Johnny Canuck, back in the 50s
Earned his wings in the Korean Skies.
All hooched up on his bootleg whisky,
Black Velvet ... keep my fly boy alive.

The way he flew it was a sin to St. Jude
Always diving more ... heaven to the floor.

Black Velvet in that little boy smile
Black Velvet in that old Quebec style.
A new religion to bring you to your knees,
Black Velvet, if you please.

Up in Seoul he's burning like a heat wave
Rye lightening bound to drive you wild.
Mama's baby in the heart of every bar girl
Mama San she tries to stop the child.

The way he moved it was a sin... to St. Jude.
Always fall in love, just a fool for love.

Black Velvet in that little boy smile
Black Velvet with that old Quebec style.
A new religion to bring you to your knees,
Black Velvet, if you please.

Every word of every hymn he knew was for you.
In a flash he was gone, happened so soon
What could we even do?

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[harperjohnlive]

Ah, yes ….I believe this is a short-lived insignia worn by some of the NCOs in the Canadian Forces. Just my opinion, but this is one of the best designs in its class of chevron “flashes”. In terms of the song words I see it as compellingly symbolic … the young “Johnny Canuck” flying high and free like a leaf on wing, breaking all the rules, breaking through the chevron clouds …a brief glimpse of his conflicted self … and then in a “flash he was gone”

[Alex911TheCanadian]

I do not recognize the rank at the beginning of the song. WHat rank is that? It has the maple leaf inside of the two chevrons.

[TheJamieMusic]

Love the re write! That's awesome!! Check out our audition of Black Velvet through Adam's channel "kchanblog"! Good luck!