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