Henry's Songbook

        So kiss me and smile for me
        Tell me that you'll wait for me
        Hold me like you'll never let me go
        For I'm leaving on a jet plane
        Don't know when I'll be back again
        Oh babe I hate to go

All my bags are packed I'm ready to go
I'm standing here outside your door
I hate to wake you up to say goodbye
But the dawn is breaking it's early morn
Taxi's waiting he's blowing his horn
Already I'm so lonesome I could cry

There's so many times I've let you down
So many times I've played around
I tell you now they don't mean a thing
Every place I go I'll think of you
Every song I sing I'll sing for you
When I come back I'll wear your wedding ring

Now the time has come to leave you
One more time let me kiss you
Then close your eyes, I'll be on my way
Dream about the days to come
When I won't have to leave alone
About the time I won't have to say

(as sung by Peter Paul & Mary)

[1998:] ['Armageddon':] In the film's most lunatic scene, the drillers perform John Denver's 'Leaving on a Jet Plane' on the launch-pad before blast-off [into space in order to destroy an asteroid threatening to wipe out the earth]. (Philip French, Observer, 9 Aug)