Talking Merchant Marine
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Bed with my woman just singin the blues
Heard the radio tellin the news
Said the big red army took a hundred towns
And allies, droppin them two ton bombs
Started hollerin, yellin
Dancin up and down like a bullfrog
Doorbell rung and in come a man
I signed my name, I got a telegram
Said, "If you wanna take a vacation trip
Got a dishwashin job on a liberty ship"
Woman a-cryin, me a-flyin
Out the door and down the line
Bout two minutes, run ten blocks
I come to my ship down at the dock
Walked up the plank and I signed my name
Blowed that whistle and was gone again
Right on out and down the stream
Ships as furr as my eye could see
Woman a-waitin
Ship loaded down with TNT
All out across the rollin sea
Stood on the deck, watched the fishes swim
I's a-prayin them fish wasn't made outta tin
Sharks, porpoises, jelly beans
Rainbow trouts, mud cats, jew gars
All over that water
This convoy's the biggest I ever did see
Stretches all the way out across the sea
And the ships blow the whistles and rang the bells
Gonna blow them fascists all to hell
Win some freedom, liberty
Stuff like that
Walked to the tail, stood on the stern
Lookin at the big brass screwblade turn
Listened to the sound of the engine pound
Gained sixteen feet every time went around
Gettin closer and closer
Look out, you fascists
I'm just one of the merchant crew
I belong to the union called the NMU
I'm a union man from head to toe
I'm USA and CIO
Fightin out here on the waters
To win some freedom on the land