The Gunship Calypso Troopie songs

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  • Опубліковано 25 лис 2024

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  • @Tunkkis
    @Tunkkis 5 років тому +199

    So this is the man himself, John Edmond? He seems like a pleasant, really jovial guy. Wish him all the best!

    • @bigshaq712
      @bigshaq712 4 роки тому +17

      He has an ebook on amazon called Bushcat minstrel of the wild, its. Really great read

    • @captainantilles9094
      @captainantilles9094 3 роки тому +9

      Ek Se’

    • @AndrewLale
      @AndrewLale 3 роки тому +10

      He's a lekker bloke.

    • @ambianknight6816
      @ambianknight6816 2 роки тому

      Nah he hates everybody downwards from a deck........

    • @thankusa9795
      @thankusa9795 2 роки тому +1

      Are you a kurd

  • @nosteponsneek4616
    @nosteponsneek4616 6 років тому +62

    This way better than ride of the valkyres!

  • @AndrewLale
    @AndrewLale 3 роки тому +53

    Properly funded, Rhodesia would still be there. Ran out of money and friends! I raise a glass to a country that's passed.

  • @arotogtech
    @arotogtech 2 роки тому +30

    Rhodesians never Die.

  • @yayo3879
    @yayo3879 6 років тому +81

    Thank you for uploading this! If this is the real account of John Edmond, God bless you. Great, catchy songs. I hope my video which uses some of them has its ad revenue directed to you.

    • @hickhok41
      @hickhok41 Рік тому +1

      hes uploading yt shorts pretty often

  • @dawnmorris3718
    @dawnmorris3718 6 років тому +40

    Lekker, ek se....

  • @hannahs1683
    @hannahs1683 3 роки тому +23

    I love the line “from the hip like Audi Murphy”

    • @TheRealRusDaddy
      @TheRealRusDaddy Рік тому +4

      Audie Murphy was a hero to soldiers and recovering addicts alike

    • @verdant2215
      @verdant2215 8 місяців тому +2

      1 Man army

  • @ashr1190
    @ashr1190 4 роки тому +20

    Wonderful music, hope you're doing well, John.

  • @200308164
    @200308164 3 роки тому +11

    I like his being PROUD RHODESIA. LONG LIVE JOHN

  • @RH0DI
    @RH0DI 3 роки тому +6

    God, I can only imagine how lovely a flight on one of those ought to have been, what with such a lovely landscape!

  • @ardyvv
    @ardyvv Рік тому +3

    Rhodesia never fallen, my Father, Uncle, Grand Father, all of them say Rhodesia is still in there hearts and so it is for me

  • @pelonehedd7631
    @pelonehedd7631 2 роки тому +13

    God Has Truly Blessed John Edmond. I pray many more for Him. I love all the Troopie Songs and the Dog songs Too . I just recently discovered Inja . For many American’s our knowledge of Rhodesia was limited to it being a place where people went on Safari’s , Rhodesian Ridgeback Hounds were Bred and a war against communist backed terrorism was fought. The Idealistic Zealots Who Betrayed Rhodesia Got their Happy Ending Massage. How long did it take them to realize the expletive they got wasn’t worth the expletive they got? That the bitterness would linger long after their self gratification was gone. When I watch the Interviews with those Who served Rhodesia I see Good, noble, well educated Christian’s who I believe had built a Country and Way of Life second to none.

  • @officerdonut7066
    @officerdonut7066 8 місяців тому +3

    Chorus]
    La la la la la la la la
    We don't sail sailing ships-oh
    La la la la la la la la
    But we sing the gunship calypso
    [repeat 3x]
    We are sailors of a kind, we sail across the sky
    Sails are made from a chopper blade and the rotor takes us high
    Captain is the jockey and the 1st mate is the tech
    Like a nautical man he fires the cannon, downwards from the deck
    [Chorus]X2
    We are like a Man-O-War, whenever we attack
    We've been tipped as a mercy ship, when we do the Kaza back
    We don't sail no pirate ship, but the crew is wild and wooly
    The loot is best in our treasure chest is a case of old chebully
    [Chorus]X3
    [Lyrics transcribed by The Ghost of Ian Smith in June of 2019]

  • @noneednoneed5752
    @noneednoneed5752 4 роки тому +10

    Jovial song, I am really enjoying it.
    All the best to you and your family.
    I am not even Rhodesian

  • @janebaker1052
    @janebaker1052 2 роки тому +7

    Wonderful music - and you deserve credit for immortalising some courageous events of recent history. thank you

  • @kroq2
    @kroq2 Рік тому +2

    at the end they where best light infantry the world has ever seen

  • @mikerilling6515
    @mikerilling6515 5 місяців тому +4

    White people built such an incredible civilization ❤
    with a stable currency a thriving economy, airports schools, hospitals, universities, plenty of railroads and paved streets, safe, running water, electricity, air conditioning, plenty of petrol at all, the filling stations, fully stocked grocery store shelves, no trash on the streets no graffiti on the buildings and then suddenly everything crumbled. I wonder what happened.

  • @thitsugaya1224
    @thitsugaya1224 7 місяців тому +2

    John Edmond seems like tge kind of guy you want to have a few chiboolis with.

  • @stuartbrownlie8286
    @stuartbrownlie8286 2 роки тому +1

    You sir are a legend, when I get home sick your music is there, RND brother

  • @jonathanpinckney9227
    @jonathanpinckney9227 Рік тому +2

    Man, this is a song I can't be mad listening to.

  • @MARINE76911
    @MARINE76911 Рік тому +4

    Absolutely Love this song!!!

  • @m.lang.6180
    @m.lang.6180 Рік тому +2

    I miss Rhodesia. A place where i never where! Greets from Germany!

  • @zane2go
    @zane2go Місяць тому +1

    amazing song!

  • @haggismacphreedom
    @haggismacphreedom Рік тому +1

    My dad was a gunship pilot during the war, name Maintenance Man.

  • @paulleckner8235
    @paulleckner8235 2 роки тому +4

    What a great song about helicopters!!

  • @ii-lt8ow
    @ii-lt8ow 4 роки тому +8

    Очень крутая тема братан lekker ek se)

  • @ambianknight6816
    @ambianknight6816 2 роки тому +2

    Rip. Clive Mason. Blue eyes. If you know you know.

  • @andrehavenga4260
    @andrehavenga4260 7 місяців тому +1

    The best years.

  • @jamesauger7113
    @jamesauger7113 3 роки тому +2

    He Be Number One!

  • @mikerilling6515
    @mikerilling6515 5 місяців тому +2

    35,000 views
    200 are from me 😂

  • @DannyRikes
    @DannyRikes 2 роки тому +2

    masterpiece

  • @aldoud1
    @aldoud1 4 роки тому +6

    cool vdo

  • @bushman101.4
    @bushman101.4 3 роки тому +1

    Home that's all....

  • @pooletrainboy
    @pooletrainboy Рік тому +1

    Now this is how you do COIN whirly birds and sticks not tanks and napalm.

  • @pelonehedd7631
    @pelonehedd7631 2 роки тому +2

    Love these songs! What breed of Hounds are featured? Were Rhodesian Ridgebacks used as well?

  • @pelonehedd7631
    @pelonehedd7631 2 роки тому +1

    Did those Choppers mount Hispano Souza 20mm cannon. Much More powerful than the 30 cal. Mounts The US used in Vietnam . The 50 cal. Though effective lacks fused projectiles.

    • @lameesahmad9166
      @lameesahmad9166 Рік тому

      No. My brother was in this squadron. They used twin Browning. It was such a long time ago I cant remember the type. We were fighting in the 1970s against modern weaponry with WWII planes and armaments. I have heard that we managed to get the Bell Helicopters in a trade deal with Israel in exchange for tobacco. We were in a land locked country and we were heavily sanctioned. But that did not worry us too much we just became self sufficient. We made do with what we had. Because we had no outside debt our exchange rate was excellent. Unless we managed to get the enemies weaponry our troops made do with the R1 rifle.

  • @jorgearsenio161
    @jorgearsenio161 2 роки тому +1

    O palestino saudades do talibã 🤔 mojamarasulolaaaaaaahhhhhhhh Jones 🥰🆘🚀