Way-off-lands writer,
Pay-’em-back writer.

Writer[1] is dispatched offshore to take a look
At what’s happening in a peace party nook.
Talks to a member who is named van Meer[2]
In this recent job in which now is he a way-off lands writer.
Way-off lands writer.

He hears van Meer’s story and learns there’s a man[3]
Who is underwriting the party’s plan.
His daughter [4] takes an interest in this male
Who’d landed this job; he’d wanted to be a way-off lands writer,
Way-off lands writer.

But her dad’s an agent for a nasty crew;[5]
Guy then writes the score, but all truth eschew.
He says dad is wronger than a crocodile
With tears sloshin’ down as he’s noshin’ me,
The way-off lands writer,
Way-off lands writer.

All his squealing’s slighted, then he’s on a flight;
The plane’s hit,[6] goes down, and lands in the bight.
It’s then dad has learned that he is screwed so he
Quickly makes a break and drowns in the sea.

In waves are survivors,
They’re saved, survivors.

Way-off-land writer’s
Dame says, “Alright, sir!”

Dame and the writer:
Radio fighters.[7]

Pay-’em-back writer,
Radio fighter.


[1]Johnny Jones, as played by Joel McCrea
[2]Albert Basserman, leader of the Universal Peace Party (nominated for a Best Supporting Actor)
[3]Stephen Fisher, as played by Herbert Marshall (“Murder!” two roles in “Alfred Hitchcock Presents”)
[4]Carol Fisher, as played by Laraine Day (one role in “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour”)
[5]Fisher is a Nazi spy
[6]By a Nazi destroyer
[7]Jones and Carol make a radio broadcast to the U.S., warning that London is being bombed