blue desert

betty grable on the wall keeps my cabin warm, from casablanca down to rio, she won't feel the storm, i only joined the fleet for places and girls i hadn't see, i didn't think of all the lonely nights we spend between, blue desert, blue desert, wish that i was far away from this blue desert, my only oasis is the bright harbour town, but they're just distant places and, i never know where i'm bound, gazing out my porthole view in hopes of sighting land, but just another blue horizon hides the burning sand, i should have stayed behind wherever the girls were good to me, instead of turning back again to face that lonely sea, blue desert, blue desert, blue desert,