[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