A grey-headed old man shuffled into a downtown bar holding his head up high.
His hands shook as he took the "Piano Player Wanted" sign from the window and handed it to the bartender.
"I'd like to apply for the job," he said.
"I was a RAAF pilot based in Darwin.
I played the piano for the Officers' Club ‘Happy Hours’ , for all the guys stationed there during WW2, so here I am. I’m known as the ‘Wing-man/Piano- man’.
I'm the right guy for you!"
The barkeeper/owner wasn't too sure about this doubtful looking old guy, but it had been quite a while since he had a piano player.
Business had been falling off.
So, why not give him a try?
The old pilot shuffled his way over to the piano while several patrons snickered.
By the time he was into his third bar of music, every voice was silenced.
What followed was a rhapsody of soaring music unlike anything heard in the bar before.
When he finished there wasn't a dry eye in the place.
The bartender took the old pilot a beer and asked him the name of the song he had just played.
It's called "Drop your panties, Baby, I'm Going Balls to the Wall for You," he said.
After guzzling the pint, leaving it empty, he said, "It is one of dozens of songs that I wrote, myself."
The bartender and the crowd winced at the title, but the piano player just went on, into a knee-slapping, hand-clapping bit of ragtime that had the place jumping.
After he finished, the ol’ pilot acknowledged the applause, downed a second pint, and told the crowd the last song was called, "Big Boobs Make My Afterburner Light Up."
He then launched into another mesmerizing song and everyone in the room was enthralled.
He announced that it was the latest rendition of his song, "Spread 'em Baby, It's Foggy Out Tonight and I Need To See The Centre-line."
He excused himself and headed for the loo.
When he came out the bartender went over to him and said, "Hey, Mr Wing-man/ Piano- man, the job is yours; but do you know your fly is open and your cock is hangin’ out?"
"Know it?" the old fighter pilot replied, "Hell, I wrote it!"
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