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Bill Hosie built a plane
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A survivor from the Schneider Trophy Race
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Seemed like a nice old guy
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With his baseball cap and his sun-slit eyes
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He took the airframe, motor, and wings
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And restored all the fabric, the floats and the straps and things
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And the shark on banana skis
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Was heard to roar once more over Cornwall seas
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In the 'Twenty-Seven Schneider Race
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It was a Supermarine that took first place
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The year Bill Hosie was born
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When there were still tall ships sailin' round Cape Horn
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But the S.5 Supermarine
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Was the fastest Seaplane the world had ever seen
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Nearly three hundred miles-an-hour
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With a Napier inline engine to give her power
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And her daughters flew in World War Two
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Their pilots were known as the first of the few
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When the Battle of Britain raged
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The Spitfire blazed across a history page
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But Bill Hosie built a dream
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To haunt the skies with the ghost of a Supermarine
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And she rose on the steppe again
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With the spirit of a Schneider Trophy racing plane
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She took to the cool spring air
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With Bill Hosie sitting in the pilot's chair
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She banked along the Cornwall shore
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Her tail broke away and she flew no more
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She fell from her flight of grace
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The year they revived the Schneider Trophy race
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And the Supermarine S.5
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Was the plane that made Bill Hosie feel alive
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