The Airplane

Lyrics

(Melody by Helen S. Leavitt, Lyrics by Celia Standish)

Humming, steadily humming,
Far overhead in the sky the airplane goes by,
It’s coming, nearer it’s coming!
Just like a wonderful dragonfly.

See also

  • Subject: airplanes
  • Harmony: chords I, IV, V
  • Meter: 3
  • Rhythm: ties
  • Scale: major
  • Source: Introductory Music, Music Education Series, by Thaddeus P. Giddings, Will Earhart, Ralph L. Baldwin, Elbridge W. Newton, Ginn and Company, 1923
  • PDF of song with chords
  • MIDI file
  • Listen to the melody

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