Leaving on the Jet Plane
By Peter, Paul, & Mary
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A.
Glance of the Song
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Single
by Peter, Paul, and Mary
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Released:
October 1969
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Genre:
Folk
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Length:
3:27
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Label:
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts
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Writer(s):
John Denver
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Producer(s):
Milt Okun
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The original title of the song was
"Babe, I Hate to Go"
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Becoming their only #1 on
the Billboard Hot 100chart in the United States
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The latest version was used in
Armageddon movie
B.
Analysis (The Lyric)
I'm ... I'm ...
All my bags are packed,
I'm ready to go
I'm standin' here
outside your door
When all things have been packed and he is ready to
leave, he goes to meet her to say goodbye
I hate to wake you up
to say goodbye
One thing that he hates is waking her up just for
saying goodbye
But the dawn is
breakin', it's early morn
The taxi's waitin',
he's blowin' his horn
Already I'm so lonesome
I could die
The times for his departure comes, he has
to go
So kiss me and smile
for me
Tell me that you'll
wait for me
Hold me like you'll
never let me go
He asks her to kiss, smile, and hug tightly like never
let him go
'Cause I'm leaving on a
jet plane
I don't know when I'll
be back again
Oh, babe, I hate to go
He wishes his girlfriend will wait for him because he
does not know when he will come back again
I'm ...
There's so many times
I've let you down
So many times I've
played around
I'll tell you now, they
don't mean a thing
Although he often pretends and makes her disappointed,
he loves her the most
C.
Story
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There's a man who's leaving his loved one to go on a
long trip. She's still asleep, but he has to take the cab to the airport. It
may be his girlfriend or fiancee because of the line, "When I come back
I'll wear your wedding ring."
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Tells
about someone who will leave the one he loves but he is so hard to leave
because he loves her very much.
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It is a story about a man leaving his woman to go off to
war. It was written and recorded during the Vietnam War.
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Not
only was war music prevalent at home it also had a large effect in Vietnam; the
soldiers had their own top forty.
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Peter
Paul and Mary’s remake of "Jet Plane" originally by John Denver, was
a song about going home. The soldiers would listen to this song and imagine
leaving on a Jet Plane back to their homes and families.
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