Talking Sailor-Jack Elliott

[ti:Talking Sailor ] [ar:Jack Elliott] [al:Jack Elliott Takes The Floor] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Sailor - Jack Elliott [00:17.92]Bed with my woman just a singing the blues [00:19.82]And i heard the radio a telling the news [00:22.05] [00:24.12]Said the big red army took a hundred towns [00:26.09]And the allies dropping them two ton bombs [00:28.66] [00:29.63]I started hollering yelling [00:32.55] [00:34.31]Dancing up and down like a bullfrog [00:36.29] [00:41.77]Doorbell rung in come a man [00:43.61]I signed my name i got a telegram [00:45.41]Says if you want to take a vacation trip [00:47.62] [00:49.81]Got a dish washing job on a liberty ship [00:53.96] [00:55.30]Woman a crying me a flying [00:58.49] [00:59.46]Out the door and down the line [01:01.59] [01:08.99]'Bout two minutes i run ten blocks [01:10.91]I come to my ship down at the docks [01:12.67]Walked up the plank and i signed my name [01:15.11] [01:16.18]Blowed the whistle and was gone again [01:17.88] [01:20.91]Right on out and down the stream [01:22.69] [01:25.11]Ships as far as my eye could see [01:28.00] [01:29.70]Pulling away [01:30.69] [01:36.13]Ship loaded down with tnt [01:38.26]All out across the rolling sea [01:40.41] [01:41.21]I stood on the deck and watched the fishes swim [01:44.57] [01:46.45]I was a-praying them fishes wasn't made of tin [01:48.88]Sharks [01:49.28] [01:50.84]Sharks porpoises [01:53.04]Jelly beans rainbow trouts [01:56.21] [01:57.27]Mud-cats jew-gars [02:00.33] [02:01.33]All over that water [02:02.82] [02:11.36]This convoy's the biggest i ever did see [02:13.39]It stretches all the way out across the sea [02:15.47]The ships blow their whistles and ring their bells [02:17.64] [02:20.63]Gonna blow them fascists all to hell [02:22.86]Win some freedom liberty stuff like that [02:28.82] [02:41.67]Walked to the tail stood on the stern [02:43.62]Looking at the big brass screw blade turn [02:45.93] [02:50.34]Listened to the sound of the engines pond [02:52.15] [03:00.89]Came sixteen feet every time it went round [03:03.44] [03:05.02]Gets closer and closer look out you fascists [03:10.41] [03:17.14]I'm just one of the merchant crew [03:18.78]I belong to the union called the nmu [03:22.67] [03:23.65]I'm a union man from head to toe [03:25.77] [03:27.59]I'm u-s-a and c-i-o [03:30.74] [03:32.97]Fighting out here on the waters [03:34.75] [03:35.73]Win some freedom on the land