Friday, September 20, 2019

"American Sailor"




This song is right on the mark.  Anybody remember those days?  Sometimes it felt like a three-ring circus with too many clowns! I guess that’s what made it so memorable.  I remember as a Seaman or a Third Class thinking those wearing anchors got nothing better to do but think up stupid stuff for us to do trying to transform us seagoing idiots into Wally Cleaver Sunday school attendees...

I hope you enjoy the song! I don’t know his name or what ship it was on, but you can watch the video from the link down below! Cheers …



I’m just trying to be a father,

And send my child support with love,

I’ve got kids in fourteen countries,

At least the ones that I know of …

Up and at’um in the morning,

With a bitch, a moan and gripe,

Can’t afford to be late to work again,

Probably lose another stripe.

I don’t do it for the money,

Oh that’s subsistence pay.

But I hate giving to the galley,

But they just take it anyway.

It is the life that I have chosen,

To be the few, the proud, the brave.

Now I’m standing here getting my ass chewed,

Cause for once I forgot to shave.

I can’t call in drunk on Monday,

When I downed so much I puked.

I just sleep through my duty days,

And sometimes on watch too.

You can bet that I’ll be ready,

When the group heads to the bar.

I get wasted, I get arrested,

And I puked some in the car.

But I’ll always put my shit away,

When Chief says do it now!

It takes one guy to do the job,

I need four to tell me how.

Oh, and I don’t want to work today,

But if work it has to be.

Well I’ll drag my ass to Quarters,

So they can read me the POD.

I’m an American Sailor in the US of N …

And my shipmates and shitbags,

That always seem to find ways in.

When liberty is put down for me,

I will always get my flame.

And I’m out here at the whorehouse,

But there’s no match tonight …

American Sailor …

I’m an American Sailor …






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