In bed with my woman, just a the blues And I heard the a telling the news Said, the big Red army took a hundred And the allies dropping them two ton I hollering, yelling up and down like a bullfrog
Doorbell rung, in a man I my name, I got a telegram Says,"If you to take a vacation trip Got a washing job on a liberty ship" Woman a crying, me a Out the and down the line
'Bout two minutes I run ten I come to my down at the docks Walked up the and I signed my name Blowed the whistle and was again on out and down the stream Ships as far as my eye see, pulling away
Ship loaded down TNT All out the rolling sea I stood on the deck and watched the fishes I was a-praying them wasn't made of tin
Porpoises Jelly beans, rainbow trouts, mud-cats, All over water
This convoy's the biggest I did see It stretches all the way out the sea The ships blow their whistles and ring their blow them fascists all to hell Win freedom, liberty, stuff like that
to the tail, stood on the stern Looking at the big screw blade turn Listened to the sound of the pond Came sixteen feet every time it round Gets closer and closer, out, you Fascists
I'm one of the merchant crew I to the union called the NMR I'm a union man from to toe I'm and C-I-O Fighting out here on the Win some freedom on the