Songs come from the weirdest places. I used to live in Prescott Arizona and one of my hobbies was looking at cemetaries, especially old ones. This one was next to a small airport, strange place for a cemetary I thought and there were graves on both sides of the road coming into the airport. (found out later it's because they didn't move any of the bodies, they just removed the headstones)... it was a paupers grave yard. One grave stood out. The boy was 9 and someone had suspended these toy airplanes above his grave site , creepy I thought. So I had to go the archives in person and find out what this was all about and boy did I.

I even called his Aunt on the phone to get the whole story. he died in 1939 and had polio, that's why he didn't walk so good. So here's my lyric.


DANIEL KEENAN

Chorus
Daddy I wanna watch the planes fly
Taking off up to the sky
I wonder where they go, Daddy do you know?
My legs are hurtin Daddy pick me up
I can’t see over that pick-up truck
Oh I see it now, headin for the clouds

Bridge melody
There’s a rusty white gate next to the runway
That’s where all the angels go , when they can’t pay
Children and babies only hours old
Scattered about, underneath the road

Chorus melody
Daddy I promise I’ll behave
Take me out to the field to day
You know that I’ll be good, and he always would
I can’t walk too far in the snow
Carry me Daddy let’s go home
And he’d lift him up, and he’d never know

Bridge melody
Daniel Keenan’s Daddy was a miner in the west
Poor but proud he put his son to rest
Out where he could watch the planes go by
And everyone would know, he loved to watch them fly……

Bridge melody
At the rusty white gate next to the runway
You’ll see three toy planes suspended in the air
Daniel’s Daddy didn’t take the chance
If noone else could see the planes, He made sure that Daniel can…..

Daddy’ I wanna watch the planes fly
Daddy I wanna watch the planes fly.

"It Mattered to THAT One"