Talking Sailor Blues-Jack Elliott

[ti:Talking Sailor Blues] [ar:Jack Elliott] [al:The Musical Grandfather & Father Of Bob Dylan (Digitally Remastered)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Sailor Blues - Jack Elliott [00:15.86]In bed with my woman just singin' the blues [00:17.97]Heard the radio tellin' the news [00:19.93] [00:21.33]That the big Red Army took a hundred towns [00:23.51]And Allies droppin' them two-ton bombs [00:25.59] [00:27.31]Started hollerin' yellin' dancin' up and down like a bullfrog [00:34.60] [00:41.36]Doorbell rung and in come a man [00:43.41]I signed my name I got a telegram [00:45.34]Said If you wanna take a vacation trip [00:47.53] [00:49.91]Got a dish-washin' job on a Liberty ship [00:53.99] [00:56.89]Woman a-cryin' me a-flyin' out the door and down the line [01:03.64] [01:13.48]'Bout two minutes I run ten blocks [01:15.43]I come to my ship down at the dock [01:17.50]Walked up the plank and I signed my name [01:19.65] [01:22.28]Blowed that whistle was gone again [01:23.88] [01:26.32]Right on out and down the stream [01:27.97] [01:29.90]Ships as fur as my eye can see woman a-waitin' [01:34.30] [01:46.25]Ship loaded down with TNT [01:48.11]All out across the rollin' sea [01:50.39]Stood on the deck watched the fishes swim [01:53.91] [01:55.34]I'se a-prayin' them fish wasn't made out of tin [01:57.09] [01:59.14]Sharks porpoises jellybeans [02:04.12] [02:05.85]Rainbow trouts mudcats jugars all over that water [02:12.93] [02:22.04]This convoy's the biggest I ever did see [02:24.26]Stretches all the way out across the sea [02:26.30]And the ships blow the whistles and a-rang her bells [02:28.21] [02:30.56]Gonna blow them fascists all to hell [02:32.58] [02:35.26]Win some freedom liberty stuff like that [02:40.53] [02:46.99]Walked to the tail stood on the stern [02:48.89]Lookin' at the big brass screw blade turn [02:51.09] [02:56.47]Listened to the sound of the engine pound [02:58.01] [03:02.76]Gained sixteen feet every time it went around [03:04.90] [03:08.01]Gettin' closer and closer look out you fascists [03:11.97] [03:18.55]I'm just one of the merchant crew [03:20.59]I belong to the union called the N.M.U [03:23.86] [03:25.95]I'm a union man from head to toe [03:27.72] [03:30.34]I'm U.S.A and C.I.O [03:33.49] [03:36.49]Fightin' out here on the waters to win some freedom on the land