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Enemy coast ahead

Gunners, test your guns

Casings rattle, iron bites

Spits other iron out

We have come

To burn your children in their beds

To incinerate

And smash your cities to the ground

We’re gonna pay you

Back a thousandfold

For what you did to London, Glasgow,

Belfast and Liverpool

And I won’t rest until you burn

For what you did to my poor son

And my wife, and my daughter

At twenty thousand feet

Life here is cheap and brief

In a heated suit and tethered

To the oxygen supply

J for Jenny is our kite

Raining death on Germany tonight

I’m so ashamed of the death toll

What? That’s how you fight the war

We bomb our targets from the sky

But countless innocents will die

Can’t be precise, we go for saturation

Enough for you, RAF bomber command

As long as you are crushing Jerry down

Civilians slaughtered every night

We are no better than they are

What? That’s how you win the war

Nightfighters at our back

The searchlight and the flak

We struggle in the cold

As low as minus fifty

J for Jenny is our kite

Raining death on Germany tonight

J for Jenny is the name

The wind howls through the airframe

Lancasters, Halifaxes

And Stirlings in the clouds

Every op and every night

Unleash a holocaust of fire

Over the Ruhr valley