Barman, I know you well, but you are a kind of cruel
You've hoarded halves of ordinary and legion chasers too
Listen to me barman
Listen to this drunk
I was on that ship and it really did get sunk
You see I was a seaman
A seaman on a warship
I know you don't believe me, because you never saw it
I'm fifty years your senior, I fought waist deep in mud
I swum with severed heads in a crimson tide of blood
I told you it was true
I told you it was true
I told you it was true
The Lisbon Maru
I was a prisoner of war caught on the China sea
But never bound by such, bombed my own country
And I was left to swim amongst the corpses and the sharks
Somehow I am here with your beer and cheap remarks
I told you it was true
I told you it was true
I told you it was true
The Lisbon Maru
I told you it was true
I told you it was true
I told you it was true
The Lisbon Maru
It's in the news today
So I'd like to hear your views today
Barman, I know you well, but you are a kind of cruel
You've hoarded halves of ordinary and legion chasers too
Listen to me barman
Listen to this drunk
I was on that ship and it really did get sunk
I told you it was true
I told you it was true
I told you it was true
The Lisbon Maru
I told you it was true
I told you it was true
I told you it was true
The Lisbon Maru