Oceana Roll (From "Two Weeks with Love")

Billy Mccoy was a musical boy

On the Cruiser Alabama he was there at the piana

Like a fish down in the sea, oh when he'd rattle off some harmony

Every night out on the ocean he would get that raggy notion

Start that syncopated motion lovingly

No one could sleep way out there in the deep

When Billy cut loose out at sea

(release)

Each fish and worm... Begins to twist & squirm

The ship starts in a dip and does a corkscrew turn

You see that smoke so black sneak from that old smokestack

It's floatin' right to heaven and it won't come back

Now here and there you'll see a stool and chair

A-slippin' 'round the cabin shoutin' "I don't care!"

And then the hammock starts a-swingin' & the bell begins a-ringin'

While he's sittin' at that piana... There on the Alabama

Playin' the Oceana Roll

Every time he sits down at the piana stool

People start a-shoutin' "You're a playin' fool!"

Cause he is the master of the razzmatazz

He's known to everyone as Mr. Jazz

When he gets it goin' with a real hot break

Even Davy Jones begins to shim and shake

Oh proudly you'll declare, that he's a fair

What a lot of music he can make

So listen here, and lend an ear

So listen here and lend an ear and lend an ear

Doo-doot doo, doo doo doo doo-doot doo

Slippin' round the cabin shoutin' "I don't care!"

And then the hammock starts a-swingin' & the bell begins a-ringin'

While he's sittin' at that piana... There on the Alabama

Playin' the Oceana Roll