Talking Sailor-Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers

[ti:Talking Sailor] [ar:Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers] [al:The Essential Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.36]Talking Sailor - Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers [00:01.83] [00:07.82]Written by：Guthrie [00:08.72] [00:10.20]Bed with my woman just a singing the blues [00:12.15]And I heard the radio a telling the news [00:14.03] [00:15.00]Said the big red army took a hundred towns [00:17.15]And the allies dropping them two ton bombs [00:18.99] [00:21.52]I started hollering [00:22.17] [00:23.81]Yelling [00:24.04] [00:25.71]Dancing up and down like a bullfrog [00:27.74] [00:34.09]Doorbell rung in come a man [00:35.80]I signed my name I got a telegram [00:37.52] [00:39.78]Says if you want to take a vacation trip [00:41.59] [00:42.75]Got a dish washing job on a liberty ship [00:44.94] [00:46.92]Woman a crying [00:47.65] [00:50.89]Me a flying [00:51.60] [00:52.70]Out the door and down the line [00:54.33] [00:57.08]'Bout two minutes I run ten blocks [00:58.90]I come to my ship down at the docks [01:00.82] [01:01.85]Walked up the plank and I signed my name [01:03.78] [01:05.08]Blowed the whistle and was gone again [01:06.78] [01:10.62]Right on out and down the stream [01:12.24] [01:15.36]Ships as far as my eye could see [01:18.51] [01:21.85]Pulling away [01:22.17] [01:24.65]Ship loaded down with T N T [01:26.71]All out across the rolling sea [01:28.42] [01:30.08]I stood on the deck [01:30.84] [01:31.89]And watched the fishes swim [01:33.36]I was a praying them fishes wasn't made of tin [01:35.76] [01:38.50]Sharks [01:39.10] [01:40.39]Porpoises [01:41.19] [01:42.52]Jelly beans [01:43.63] [01:44.36]Rainbow trouts [01:45.35] [01:46.40]Mud cats [01:47.03] [01:48.33]Jew gars [01:49.27] [01:51.58]All over that water [01:52.32] [01:56.03]This convoy's the biggest I ever did see [01:58.32]It stretches all the way out across the sea [02:00.19]The ships blow their whistles [02:01.30]And ring their bells [02:02.07] [02:03.63]Gonna blow them fascists all to hell [02:05.40] [02:08.28]Win some freedom [02:09.04] [02:11.42]Liberty [02:11.82] [02:13.48]Stuff like that [02:14.19] [02:21.71]Walked to the tail [02:22.66]Stood on the stern [02:23.60]Looking at the big brass screw blade turn [02:25.50] [02:26.93]Listened to the sound of the engines pond [02:28.63] [02:30.71]Came sixteen feet every time it went round [02:32.41] [02:34.28]Gets closer and closer [02:35.27] [02:36.38]Look out you fascists [02:37.47] [02:39.68]I'm just one of the merchant crew [02:41.53]I belong to the union called then [02:43.06] [02:43.61]N M U [02:44.24] [02:45.37]I'm a union man from head to toe [02:47.11] [02:48.47]I'm U S A and C I O [02:50.64] [02:53.34]Fighting out here on the waters [02:54.72] [02:57.22]Win some freedom [02:57.95] [02:58.91]On the land