I've listened to several sound samples and I can now expand our quote to two verses:

Ever'thing I ever needed was on the shelf.
Spent all o' my time feelin' sorry for myself.
I was driftin' an' dreamin' an' waitin' an' watchin' for a ship with a silver sail,
But I got lucky and I woke up in jail.

There is none so blind as he who will not see,
And it's easy to see I could not see that was me.
When he washed ashore, the drunken sailor was adrift in the city night
An' you'd better believe in the mornin' my burden was light.