Talking Sailor-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Sailor] [ar:Woody Guthrie/The Almanac Singers] [al:The Essential Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Sailor - Woody Guthrie [00:04.90]Written by：Guthrie [00:09.80]Bed with my woman just a singing the blues [00:11.75]And I heard the radio a telling the news [00:13.64] [00:14.60]Said the big red army took a hundred towns [00:16.75]And the allies dropping them two ton bombs [00:18.59] [00:21.12]I started hollering [00:21.77] [00:23.41]Yelling [00:23.64] [00:25.31]Dancing up and down like a bullfrog [00:27.34] [00:33.69]Doorbell rung in come a man [00:35.40]I signed my name I got a telegram [00:37.12] [00:39.38]Says if you want to take a vacation trip [00:41.19] [00:42.35]Got a dish washing job on a liberty ship [00:44.54] [00:46.52]Woman a crying [00:47.25] [00:50.49]Me a flying [00:51.20] [00:52.30]Out the door and down the line [00:53.94] [00:56.68]'Bout two minutes I run ten blocks [00:58.50]I come to my ship down at the docks [01:00.43] [01:01.45]Walked up the plank and I signed my name [01:03.38] [01:04.68]Blowed the whistle and was gone again [01:06.38] [01:10.22]Right on out and down the stream [01:11.84] [01:14.96]Ships as far as my eye could see [01:18.11] [01:21.45]Pulling away [01:21.77] [01:24.25]Ship loaded down with T N T [01:26.31]All out across the rolling sea [01:28.02] [01:29.68]I stood on the deck [01:30.44] [01:31.49]And watched the fishes swim [01:32.96]I was a praying them fishes wasn't made of tin [01:35.36] [01:38.10]Sharks [01:38.70] [01:39.99]Porpoises [01:40.79] [01:42.12]Jelly beans [01:43.23] [01:43.96]Rainbow trouts [01:44.95] [01:46.00]Mud cats [01:46.63] [01:47.93]Jew gars [01:48.87] [01:51.18]All over that water [01:51.92] [01:55.63]This convoy's the biggest I ever did see [01:57.92]It stretches all the way out across the sea [01:59.79]The ships blow their whistles [02:00.90]And ring their bells [02:01.67] [02:03.23]Gonna blow them fascists all to hell [02:05.00] [02:07.88]Win some freedom [02:08.64] [02:11.02]Liberty [02:11.42] [02:13.08]Stuff like that [02:13.79] [02:21.31]Walked to the tail [02:22.26]Stood on the stern [02:23.20]Looking at the big brass screw blade turn [02:25.10] [02:26.53]Listened to the sound of the engines pond [02:28.23] [02:30.31]Came sixteen feet every time it went round [02:32.01] [02:33.88]Gets closer and closer [02:34.87] [02:35.98]Look out you fascists [02:37.07] [02:39.28]I'm just one of the merchant crew [02:41.13]I belong to the union called then [02:42.66] [02:43.22]N M U [02:43.84] [02:44.98]I'm a union man from head to toe [02:46.71] [02:48.07]I'm U S A and C I O [02:50.24] [02:52.95]Fighting out here on the waters [02:54.32] [02:56.82]Win some freedom [02:57.55] [02:58.51]On the land