In bed with my woman, just a the blues And I heard the radio a the news Said, the big Red army took a hundred And the allies dropping them two ton I started hollering, Dancing up and like a bullfrog
Doorbell rung, in a man I signed my name, I got a Says,"If you want to a vacation trip Got a dish job on a liberty ship" a crying, me a flying Out the and down the line
two minutes I run ten blocks I come to my ship down at the Walked up the plank and I my name Blowed the whistle and was again Right on out and the stream as far as my eye could see, pulling away
Ship down with TNT All out across the sea I stood on the deck and watched the fishes I was a-praying them fishes wasn't of tin
Sharks beans, rainbow trouts, mud-cats, jew-gars All over water
This convoy's the I ever did see It stretches all the way out the sea The ships blow their whistles and ring bells Gonna them fascists all to hell Win some freedom, liberty, stuff like
Walked to the tail, on the stern Looking at the big brass blade turn Listened to the of the engines pond Came feet every time it went round closer and closer, look out, you Fascists
I'm just one of the merchant I belong to the called the NMR I'm a union man head to toe I'm and C-I-O Fighting out on the waters Win some freedom on the