Up, Up and Away

My old mate, Dan, has a hole in his roof It’s really not like him to tell you the truth He maintains his house so it’s sound as a pound But I don’t know why he’s nowhere to be found Dan’s a war hero and part time inventor He goes nowhere near that new furniture centre He modifies ordinance for a new purpose He’s fitted his house out with World War Two surplus His sofa is seats from a Douglas transporter That ditched, in the war, in the sea off Gibraltar His armchair came out of an old war plane too But that’s not here either, and that’s a big clue That hole in the roof that shouldn’t be there And also the fact of the missing armchair Which once held an airman the war couldn't beat I’d bet that armchair was an ejector seat