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