The Rolling Stones Songs - Flight 505 Lyrics

The Rolling Stones - Flight 505

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Album: Aftermath
Released: 1966

Flight 505 Lyrics

Well, I was happy here at home
I got everything I need.
Happy bein' on my own
Just living the life I lead.

Well, suddenly it dawned on me
That this was not my life.
So I just phoned the airline girl
And said, "Get me on flight number 505,
Get me on flight number 505."

Well, I confirmed my reservation.
Then I hopped a cab.
No idea of my destination
And feeling pretty bad.

With my suitcase in my hand.
In my head, my new life.
So then I told the airline girl
"Well, get me on flight number 505,
Get me on flight number 505."
Alright.

Well, I sat right there in my seat.
Well, feeling like a king.
With the whole world right at my feet.
"Of course I'll have a drink!"

Well, suddenly I saw
That we never ever would arrive.
He put the plane down in the sea.
The end of flight number 505.
The end of flight number 505.
Alright.

Whew, they put the plane down in the sea.
The end of flight number 505.
The end of flight number 505.

Writer/s: JAGGER, MICK / RICHARDS, KEITH
Publisher: Abkco Music, Inc.
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The common misinterpretation of this song is that Flight 505 was the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper in 1959, but this is not true. It is not officially confirmed by a news source that the plane crash of "The Day the Music Died" was actually flight #505. In any case, the lyrics to this Rolling Stones song have the line "He put the plane down in the sea," which of course, couldn't mean the Holly/Valens/Bopper crash that happened on dry land in Mason City, Iowa in 1959:

• Here is a fact page on the crash site, dry land, no sea.
• Here is the full text of the Civil Aeronautics Board Aircraft Accident Report on the plane crash that killed Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens and the Big Bopper, loaded with minute details down to tachometer readings and altimeter settings, and there's no flight number mentioned there either.
• In any case, a flight heading from Mason City, Iowa, to Moorhead, Minnesota would have been a northbound flight, and northbound flights are traditionally assigned even numbers.
• Finally, this was a private chartered flight, not a commercial flight. So it's unlikely that an official flight number would have been assigned. Sometimes small aircraft use their plane's serial ID for the flight number; in this case, the plane's ID ("tail number") was "N3794N."