Oceana Roll (OST From 'Two Weeks With Love')

Oceana Roll - Jane Powell/Jack Buchanan/Nanetta Fabray/Nanette Fabray

Billy McCoy was a musical boy

On the cruiser Alabama he was there on that "piana"

Like a fish down in the sea

Oh When he rattled of some harmony

Every night out on the ocean he would get that raggy notion

Start that syncopated motion lovingly

No one could sleep way out there on the deep

When Billy cut loose out at sea

Each fish and worm begins to twist and squirm

The ship starts in to dip and does a corkscrew turn;

Just see that smoke so black sneak from that old smoke stack

It's floatin' right to heaven and it won't come back;

Now here and there you'll see a stool and chair

A slippin' 'round the cabin shoutin' "I don't care "

And then the hammock starts a swingin' and the bell begins a ringin'

While he's sittin' at that "piano" there on the Alabama

Playin' the Oceana Roll

Each fish and worm begins to twist and squirm

The ship starts in to dip and does a corkscrew turn;

Just see that smoke so black sneak from that old smoke stack

It's floatin' right to heaven and it won't come back;

Now here and there you'll see a stool and chair

A slippin' 'round the cabin shoutin' "I don't care "

And then the hammock starts a swingin' and the bell begins a ringin'

While he's sittin' at that "piano" there on the Alabama

Playin' the Oceana Roll

Every time he sits down at the piano stool

People start a shoutin' “You're a playin' fool ”

But he is the master of the razzmatazz

He's known to everyone as mister Jazz

When he gets a going with a real hot phrase

Even baby Josie gives a shim and shake

Oh Papa do declare when he's a there

"Oh what a lot of music he can make "

Oh listen hear and lend an ear

Oh listen hear and lend an ear and lend an ear

Doo doot doo doo doodn doodeadoo

Slippin' 'round the cabin shoutin' "I don't care "

And then the hammock starts a swingin' and the bell begins a ringin'

While he's sittin' at that "piano"

There on the Alabama

The Oceana Roll