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   7/10/09

   cathy13

   Go Canadian!
   Isn't it great!
   
   Love the song.

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      7/10/09

      acousticguitarist

      canada also has great luthiers
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   7/10/09

   celticmusicfan

   When will they realize that an electric /acoustic guitar is like a body part for a musician. The airline is liable for that.

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   7/11/09

   drjay1966

   I like it, even though Tom Paxton did the same thing thirty years ago with "Thank You, Republic Airlines" (notably, Republic Airlines did go the way of Braniff)...
   
   Flying through the Michigan skies
   with a song in my innocent heart
   I placed myself in professional hands
   Masters of the traveler's art
   When I opened my guitar case
   at the end of a beautiful flight
   I'm sure you can imagine my feelings
   as I beheld this beautiful sight
   
   Thank you Republic Airlines
   for breaking the neck on my guitar
   I arrived to do a concert with the Kingston Trio
   opened my guitar case with a smile "con grio"
   Thank you Republic Airlines
   What a joy to a musician you are
   What a zest you've added to pedestrian skies
   It was boring to be flying where the wild goose flies
   But the tedium was broken by your wonderful surprise
   when you broke the neck on my guitar
   
   Thank you Republic Airlines
   for treating my instrument with care
   There can be no greater happiness for a musician
   than to find his instrument in this condition
   Uh-oh, Republic Airlines
   in the firmament of travel, you're a star
   for you treat each piece of baggage like a child of your own
   When you come across an instrument, it's dropped like a stone
   May you waken every morning with a new broken bone
   like you broke the neck on my guitar
   
   Now I've been traveling most of my life
   and the thrill is a long time gone
   and the sight of another DC 10
   just fails to turn me on
   But I feel my heart start pounding
   when I get to the baggage claim
   and when I see how you handled my instrument
   the thrill is still the same
   
   Thank you Republic Airlines
   for splintering the neck on my guitar
   My guitar case was so strong that nothing could go through it
   Way to go Republic, only you could do it
   Crash bang Republic Airlines
   in the field of demolition, you'll go far
   for you took it as a challenge when I turned in my case
   and you saw the fragile stickers glued all over the place
   May a team of mad flamingo dancers do to your face
   what you did to the neck on my guitar
   
   There could no satisfaction greater than if
   you should be the next to go the way of Braniff

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      7/11/09

      acousticguitarist

      thanks
      
      there's also an update
      
      acousticguitarists.net/2009/07/11/united-breaks-guitars-more-info/
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   7/11/09

   celticmusicfan

   that's cleva!

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5. 

   7/11/09

   writings

   

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