Talking Sailor

Talking Sailor - Woody Guthrie/Josh White (喬什·懷特)

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

Walked to the tail stood on the stern

Lookin' at the big brass screw blade turn

Listened to the sound of the engine pound

Gained sixteen feet every time it 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 N M U

I'm a union man from head to toe

I'm U S A and C I O fightin' out here on the waters

To win some freedom on the land