When: Monday, Nov 11, 7:30PM ET

Where: https://youtube.com/live/ox5mTdE6C_8?feature=share

Who gets 10%: https://www.massfallenheroes.org/about/ Massachusetts Fallen Heroes
Combat Veterans committed to memorializing fellow service members who did not return home. Raising funds, created a first-of-its-kind memorial, developed the Veteran’s Edge program to assist Veterans, and created a network of support and programs for MA Gold Star Families.

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GIGS OF NOTE -
Fri Nov 22 Nashville, TN - City Winery Nashville
Sat Nov 23 Chattanooga, TN - Davis Wayne's
Sun Nov 24 Atlanta, GA - Eddie's Attic

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NEW SONG “WINGMAN” (c) 2024 Vance Gilbert.

Picture a clock on its back
And he’s at 12 straight ahead
I’m at 4 at my captain’s shoulder
That’s a wingman.

What he can’t see on his 6
I’m his eyes there instead
Got his back like a good solider
That’s a wingman

I’d like to tell the story
Of some enemy invasion
And a two-man team that won the war
From our corner of the sky

But the beep of that machine
Over by the nurse’s station
Will be my indication
That my tank is running dry

What I whispered into that mask
At 40 thousand feet
Only God and the the whistling wind
Will ever know
And if it keeps me out of heaven
And the arms of my sweet savior
Then so be it let me go out
As a wingman

He retired in 1973
Somewhere where the fishing was great
He took a collar full of stars
When he died in ’98

His wife called to tell me
Laughing through her tears
She said “I know how much you loved him”
But she has no goddamn idea

(Chorus) (Bridge)

I’d have to kill you if I told you
Where we flew and where we landed
‘Cause you don’t have the clearance
And you’d never understand

Now I’m coming in hot for final
And the Good Lord has his reasons
Why I was born and died when
I couldn’t love another man

I’d like to tell the story
Of some enemy invasion
And a two-man team that won the war
From our corner of the sky
And the beep of that machine
Over by the nurses station
Will be one long tone to tell the world
My tank is all run dry

What I whispered into that mask
At 40 thousand feet
Only God and the the whistling wind
Will ever know
And if it keeps me out of heaven
And the arms of my sweet savior
Then so be it let me go out
As a wingman