Well he's a big star now   But I've been a fan of his for years   The way he sings and plays guitar   Still brings me to tears      I wouldn't want to be a big deal   I wouldn't want to be a celebrity   I spend my life building ships of steel   That's all there ever was for me      Take a hammer to the sea belles   And shout my name   And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze   That's my claim to fame      He spends his life in the studio   Jet planes and big black cars   Plays records on the radio   In all of the clubs and in all of the bars      By day he didn't have a choice   You had to take a trade   You had no money and you had no voice   That's the life I made      Take a hammer to the sea belles   And shout my name   And I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze   That's my claim to fame      That's my claim to fame boys   That's my claim to fame   To sail the seas as free as a breeze   That's my claim to fame      Well a song can live forever and a day   An old ship goes to the breakers yard   In a hundred years you're gonna hear him play   They won't remember me for working hard      Now they've all gone away, all the boys and the girls   They yard is a grave where the river runs through   We used to build the ships for the whole wide world   Now we couldn't do it if we wanted to      Take a hammer to the sea belles   And shout my name   I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze   That's my claim to fame      Take a hammer to the sea belles   And shout my name   I'll sail the seas as free as a breeze   That's my claim to fame      That's my claim to fame boys   That's my claim to fame   To sail the seas as free as a breeze   That's my claim to fame