In bed my woman, just a singing the blues And I the radio a telling the news Said, the big Red army a hundred towns And the dropping them two ton bombs I hollering, yelling up and down like a bullfrog
Doorbell rung, in a man I signed my name, I got a Says,"If you to take a vacation trip Got a dish job on a liberty ship" a crying, me a flying Out the and down the line
'Bout two minutes I run ten I come to my ship down at the Walked up the plank and I signed my Blowed the whistle and was gone on out and down the stream Ships as far as my eye could see, pulling
Ship loaded down TNT All out the rolling sea I stood on the and watched the fishes swim I was a-praying them fishes wasn't of tin
Porpoises Jelly beans, rainbow trouts, mud-cats, All over water
convoy's the biggest I ever did see It stretches all the way out the sea The ships blow their whistles and their bells blow them fascists all to hell Win some freedom, liberty, stuff that
Walked to the tail, on the stern at the big brass screw blade turn Listened to the sound of the engines sixteen feet every time it went round Gets closer and closer, out, you Fascists
I'm one of the merchant crew I to the union called the NMR I'm a union man head to toe I'm and C-I-O Fighting out here on the Win some on the land