Talking Merchant Marine-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Merchant Marine] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:BD Folk: Woody Guthrie] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.15]Talking Merchant Marine - Woody Guthrie [00:01.14]Written by：Guthrie [00:01.94] [00:10.45]In bed with my woman just singin' the blues [00:12.48]Heard the radio tellin' the news [00:14.44] [00:15.13]That the big red army took a hundred towns [00:17.32]And allies droppin' them two ton bombs [00:19.82] [00:21.72]Started hollerin' yellin' dancin' up and down like a bullfrog [00:28.29] [00:34.22]Doorbell rung and in come a man [00:36.09]I signed my name I got a telegram [00:37.91] [00:39.96]Said if you wanna take a vacation trip [00:42.03] [00:43.00]Got a dish washin' job on a liberty ship [00:45.29] [00:47.09]Woman a cryin' [00:48.09] [00:50.99]Me a flyin' [00:52.29] [00:52.87]Out the door and [00:53.93]Down the line [00:54.77] [00:57.24]'Bout two minutes I run ten blocks [00:59.11]I come to my ship down at the dock [01:01.18] [01:02.00]Walked up the plank and I signed my name [01:04.67] [01:05.24]Blowed that whistle was gone again [01:07.07] [01:10.87]Right on out and down the stream [01:12.48] [01:15.36]Ships as fur' as my eye could see [01:19.08] [01:22.04]Woman a [01:22.35]Waitin' [01:22.58] [01:24.89]Ship loaded down with tnt all out across the rollin' [01:28.41]Sea [01:28.76] [01:30.03]Stood on the deck watched the fishes swim [01:33.43]I'se a prayin' them fish wasn't made out of tin [01:36.02] [01:38.65]Sharks porpoises jellybeans rainbow trouts [01:45.59] [01:46.56]Mudcats jugars all over that water [01:52.84] [01:55.82]This convoy's the biggest I ever did see [01:58.33]Stretches all the way out across the sea [01:59.96]And the ships blow the whistles and a rang her [02:01.79]Bells [02:02.32] [02:03.62]Gonna blow them fascists all to hell [02:05.70] [02:08.25]Win some freedom liberty stuff like here [02:14.40] [02:21.64]Walked to the tail stood on the stern [02:23.61]Lookin' at the big brass screw blade turn [02:25.66] [02:27.02]Listened to the sound of the engine pound [02:28.78] [02:30.61]Gained sixteen feet every time it went around [02:32.75] [02:34.07]Gettin' closer and closer look out you fascists [02:37.85] [02:39.64]I'm just one of the merchant crew [02:41.38]I belong to the union called the N M U [02:44.41] [02:45.23]I'm a union man from head to toe [02:47.45] [02:48.27]I'm U S A and C I O [02:50.83] [02:53.47]Fightin' out [02:53.96]Here on the waters [02:54.92] [02:57.02]To win some freedom on the land