Talking Sailor Lyrics

The song Talking Sailor is performed by Woody Guthrie in the album named American Folk Legend in the year 2005 .



In bed with my women just a singing the blues,
And I heard the radio a telling the news,
Said the big Red army took a hundred towns,
And the Allies dropping them two ton bombs.
I started hollering, yelling.
Dancing up and down like a bullfrog.

Doorbell rung in come a man,
I signed my name, I got a telegram.
Says,”If you want to take a vacation trip,
Got a dish-washing job on a liberty ship.”
Woman a crying. Me a flying.
Out the door and down the line.

‘Bout two minutes I run ten blocks,
I come to my ship down at the docks.
Walked up the plank and I signed my name,
Blowed the whistle and was gone again.
Right on out and down the stream.
Ships as far as my eye could see.
Pulling away.

Ship loaded down with T.N.T.
All out across the rolling sea.
I stood on the deck and watched the fishes swim,
I was a-praying them fishes wasn't made of tin.
Sharks. Porpoises.
Jelly beans, rainbow trouts, mud-cats, jew-gars,
All over that water.

This convoy's the biggest I ever did see,
It stretches all the way out across the sea.
The ships blow their whistles and ring their bells,
Gonna blow them Fascists all to Hell.
Win some freedom. Liberty.
Stuff like that.

Walked to the tail, stood on the stern,
Looking at the big bra*s screw-blade turn,
Listened to the sound of the engines pond:
Came sixteen feet every time it went round.
Gets closer and closer.
Look out, you Fascists!

I'm just one of the merchant crew,
I belong to the union called the N.M.R.
I'm a union man from head to toe,
I'm U.S.A. and C.I.O.
Fighting out here on the waters.
Win some freedom. On the land.



Woody Guthrie - American Folk Legend

Dec 2005

  1. Pastures of Plenty
  2. So Long (It's Been Good to Know Yuh)
  3. Hard, Ain't It Hard
  4. Car Song
  5. Ramblin' Round
  6. Ship in the Sky
  7. Sinking of the Reuben James
  8. Do-Re-Mi
  9. Jesus Christ
  10. When the Curfew Blows (Curfew Blow)
  11. 1913 Massacre
  12. Talking Fishing Blues
  13. Pretty Boy Floyd
  14. Grand Coulee Dam
  15. Hard Travelin'
  16. Wreck of the Old '97
  17. Sally Goodin'
  18. Farmer-Labor Train
  19. I Ain't Got No Home in This World Anymore
  20. Whoopee Ti Yi Yo, Get Along Little Dogies
  21. Jesse James
  22. Going Down the Road Feeling Bad
  23. When That Great Ship Went Down
  24. Billy the Kid
  25. Buffalo Gals
  26. Dead or Alive (Poor Lazarus)
  27. Slipknot (Hangknot, Skipknot)
  28. New York Town
  29. This Land Is Your Land
  30. Buffalo Skinners
  31. Mule Skinner Blues
  32. Jarama Valley
  33. New Found Land
  34. Talking Columbia
  35. Talking Sailor
  36. Cowboy Waltz
  37. Go Tell Aunt Rhody
  38. Chisholm Trail
  39. Ranger's Command
  40. Stackolee
  41. Danville Girl
  42. Better World A-Comin'

Talking Sailor