Talking Sailor (Talking Merchant Marine) Woody Guthrie

In bed with my woman, just singin' the blues
Heard the radio tellin' the news:
That 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 dish-washin' job on a Liberty ship."
Woman a-cryin', me a-flyin', out the door and down the line!

'Bout two minutes I run ten blocks
I come to my ship, down at the dock;
Walked up the plank, and I signed my name
Blowed that whistle, was gone again!
Right on out and down the stream, ships as fur 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'se a-prayin' them fish wasn't made out of tin
Sharks, porpoises, jellybeans, rainbow trouts, mudcats, jugars, 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 a-rang her bells
Gonna blow them fascists all to hell!
Win some freedom, liberty, stuff like that