| In bed with my woman, just singin' the blues, | 
| Heard the radio tellin' the news: | 
| That the big Red Army took a hundred towns, | 
| And Allies droppin' them two-ton bombs. | 
| Started hollerin', yellin', dancin' up and down like a bullfrog! | 
| Doorbell rung and in come a man, | 
| I signed my name, I got a telegram. | 
| Said, «If you wanna take a vacation trip, | 
| Got a dish-washin' job on a Liberty ship.» | 
| Woman a-cryin', me a-flyin', out the door and down the line! | 
| 'Bout two minutes I run ten blocks, | 
| I come to my ship, down at the dock; | 
| Walked up the plank, and I signed my name, | 
| Blowed that whistle, was gone again! | 
| Right on out and down the stream, ships as fur as my eye could see, | 
| woman a-waitin'. | 
| Ship loaded down with TNT | 
| All out across the rollin' sea; | 
| Stood on the deck, watched the fishes swim, | 
| I’se a-prayin' them fish wasn’t made out of tin. | 
| Sharks, porpoises, jellybeans, rainbow trouts, mudcats, jugars, all over that | 
| water. | 
| This convoy’s the biggest I ever did see, | 
| Stretches all the way out across the sea; | 
| And the ships blow the whistles and a-rang her bells, | 
| Gonna blow them fascists all to hell! | 
| Win some freedom, liberty, stuff like that. | 
| Walked to the tail, stood on the stern, | 
| Lookin' at the big brass screw blade turn; | 
| Listened to the sound of the engine pound, | 
| Gained sixteen feet every time it went around. | 
| Gettin' closer and closer, look out, you fascists. | 
| I’m just one of the merchant crew, | 
| I belong to the union called the N. M. U. | 
| I’m a union man from head to toe, | 
| I’m U. S. A. and C. I. O. | 
| Fightin' out here on the waters to win some freedom on the land. |