"Cranage Airmen - Defenders of Peace" genre: Folk
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	About 96 Squadron's defence of Liverpool, during the Blitz (1941), from RAF Cranage, Byley, Cheshire.
	CD: 20th Century   Label: Manatee Press Credits: Charlotte Peters Rock (All)
	Story Behind the Song Written after standing on the airfield RAF Cranage. The brave young men - and their war - are long gone. But from this tiny airfield, in an insignificant backwater of England, they were the main defence of Liverpool, during the Blitz (1941). 96 Squadron flew, with great valour, and helped to win a world war. Lyrics Cranage Airmen - Defenders of Peace They flew over Liverpool In clouds of smoke And flowers of flame They flew over Liverpool To keep us safe They played the game But it was no game at all Their lives floating high Dying to save us all They fell from the sky ch They came from across the earth To win the world war Showing what they were worth Returning no more ch In Liverpool people saw In gratitude there Those men in their ariel war To lift their despair ch But sixty years on who knows Remembers their game Their airfield is gone - who goes To think of their name ch Those boys are all dead or old Defences are down Yet still all their gift was gold Their bravery shown ch From Byley remember still Young men in their prime Winning by force of will Remember their time They flew over Liverpool In clouds of smoke And flowers of flame They flew over Liverpool To keep us safe They played the game

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