I was quite surprised to be unable to find "The Sinking of the Reuben James" in the database, since plenty of other Woody Guthrie songs are here. The Chad Mitchell Trio sang it with an extra verse that is not on the Woody Guthrie tape I have. I would like to get the complete lyrics. Also -- no entry for "Sink the Bismarck"! (I'm pretty sure I'm spelling it right.) There are 2 versions of this, the "straight" one which is still played on Oldies radio stations sometimes, and a parody I heard only once, at a teen party in the mid-sixties. I would like to have all the words to the straight version, but I would esp. love to get the lyrics to that parody. All I remember is, "We didn't sink the Bismarck, we didn't fight at all, we spent the war in Norfolk drinking -- something, something alcohol."
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