Whether skiffle has been supplanted, it maintains its place in music history. The part that I consider interesting to visit is the combination of popular musical forms played on homemade instruments. As a lyricist I’ll take a wild stab and say that much of the comic styling of the song’s narrative is dictated by the quirky makeshift sounds emanating therefrom.

If we are to be topical then I think Jetstream encompasses mountainites concern about passenger jets and the purchase of costly warplanes at a time of supposed budget emergency. I have my doubts as to whether this is good skiffle material as there is generally a jollity that makes those whistles and whatnot work. Well let’s see

Whup no, jet stream is something else and I don’t have a good defining word to keep me interested in the subject of jets.

Them Blinkin’ Jets

We don't regret
We never forget
We don't like to bet
we'll send jets
It's cost us a packet
it's a bit of a racket
and we're in that bracket

Every refusenik has to refuel
he's the kind to be cruel
aviator goggles an avatar that giggles
ascending jets 

Pose for a product that costs like a planet
breaks the sound barrier by request
worth the existing infrastructure
that's us end in jets

No secrets that can't be mapped
Recruits who can't be trapped
strapped in for stretches of time