Talking Sailor-Woody Guthrie

[00:09.50]In bed with my woman, just a singing the blues [00:12.00]And I heard the radio a telling the news [00:14.40]Said, the big red army took a hundred towns [00:16.59]And the allies dropping them two ton bombs [00:21.03]I started hollering, yelling [00:25.35]Dancing up and down like a bullfrog [00:34.00]Doorbell rung, in come a man [00:36.00]I signed my name, [00:37.37]I got a telegram [00:40.30]Says,"If you want to take a vacation tripGot a dish washing job on a liberty ship" [00:47.00]Woman a crying, me a flying [00:52.30]Out the door and down the line' [00:57.51]Bout two minutes [00:59.00]I run ten blocks [01:00.00]I come to my ship down at the docks [01:02.10]Walked up the plank and I signed my name [01:05.29]Blowed the whistle and was gone again [01:12.02]Right on out and down the stream [01:15.59]Ships as far as my eye could see, pulling away [01:25.85]Ship loaded down with TNTAll out across the rolling sea [01:30.54]I stood on the deck and watched the fishes swim [01:35.20]I was a-praying them fishes wasn't made of tin [01:40.00]Sharks Porpoises [01:44.02]Jelly beans, rainbow trouts, mud-cats, jew-gars [01:52.03]All over that water [01:57.15]This convoy's the biggest I ever did see [02:00.30]It stretches all the way out across the sea [02:02.04]The ships blow their whistles and ring their bells [02:06.00]Gonna blow them fascists all to hell [02:10.10]Win some freedom, liberty, stuff like that [02:23.47]Walked to the tail, stood on the stern [02:26.00]Looking at the big brass screw blade turn [02:29.10]Listened to the sound of the engines pond [02:33.00]Came sixteen feet every time it went round [02:37.01]Gets closer and closer, look out, you Fascists [02:42.40]I'm just one of the merchant crew [02:44.31]I belong to the union called the NMR [02:49.00]I'm a union man from head to toe [02:51.10]I'm U-S-A and C-I-O [02:56.10]Fighting out here on the waters [03:00.00]Win some freedom on the land