Talking Sailor-Woody Guthrie

[ti:Talking Merchant Marine (Talking Sailor)] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Bob Dylan's Woody Guthrie Selection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Sailor - Woody Guthrie [00:10.43]In bed with my woman just singin' the blues [00:12.52]Heard the radio tellin' the news [00:13.87] [00:15.20]That the big Red Army took a hundred towns [00:17.50]And allies droppin' them two ton bombs [00:19.55] [00:21.54]Started hollerin' yellin' dancin' up and down like a bullfrog [00:28.11] [00:34.11]Doorbell rung and in come a man [00:35.44]I signed my name I got a telegram [00:37.58] [00:39.84]Said "If you wanna take a vacation trip [00:42.18] [00:42.90]Got a dish washin' job on a Liberty ship" [00:45.30] [00:47.04]Woman a-cryin' me a-flyin' out the door and down the line [00:54.70] [00:57.24]'Bout two minutes I run ten blocks [00:58.52]I come to my ship down at the dock [01:01.00] [01:02.10]Walked up the plank and I signed my name [01:04.16] [01:05.18]Blowed that whistle was gone again [01:07.09] [01:10.66]Right on out and down the stream [01:12.41] [01:15.29]Ships as fur' as my eye could see woman a-waitin' [01:22.84] [01:24.92]Ship loaded down with TNT all out across the rollin' sea [01:28.64] [01:30.30]Stood on the deck watched the fishes swim [01:33.08]I'se a-prayin' them fish wasn't made out of tin [01:36.11] [01:38.80]Sharks porpoises jellybeans rainbow trouts [01:45.94] [01:46.76]Mudcats jugars all over that water [01:53.58] [01:56.26]This convoy's the biggest I ever did see [01:58.21]Stretches all the way out across the sea [02:00.03]And the ships blow the whistles and a-rang her bells [02:02.30] [02:03.89]Gonna blow them fascists all to hell [02:05.57] [02:08.34]Win some freedom liberty stuff like that [02:14.88] [02:22.02]Walked to the tail stood on the stern [02:23.91]Lookin' at the big brass screw blade turn [02:25.81] [02:27.21]Listened to the sound of the engine pound [02:29.02] [02:30.68]Gained sixteen feet every time it went around [02:32.98] [02:34.37]Gettin' closer and closer look out you fascists [02:37.96] [02:39.76]I'm just one of the merchant crew [02:41.37] [02:42.20]I belong to the union called the N M U [02:44.68] [02:45.90]I'm a union man from head to toe [02:47.91] [02:48.52]I'm U S A and C I O fightin' out here on the waters [02:54.89] [02:57.31]To win some freedom on the land