《The Greatest Cowboy of Them All》歌词

歌曲： The Greatest Cowboy of Them All

所属专辑：The Greatest: Duets

歌手： Johnny Cash&Waylon Jennin

时长： 03:40

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There are strange things done 'neath the midnight sun[00:00:00]

By the men who moil for gold.[00:00:03]

The arctic trails have their secret tales[00:00:06]

That would make your blood run cold.[00:00:09]

The northern lights have seen queer sights[00:00:12]

But the queerest they ever did see,[00:00:15]

Was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge[00:00:17]

I cremated Sam McGee.[00:00:20]

Now Sam McGee was from Tennessee[00:00:23]

Where the cotton blooms and blows.[00:00:26]

Why he left his home in the south to roam[00:00:28]

Round the pole, God only knows.[00:00:31]

He was always cold, but the land of gold[00:00:33]

Seemed to hold him like a spell,[00:00:36]

Though he'd often say in his homely way[00:00:38]

That he'd sooner live in Hell.[00:00:41]

On a Christmas day we were mushing our way[00:00:44]

Over the Dawson trail.[00:00:47]

Talk of your cold! through the parka's fold[00:00:49]

It stabbed like a driven nail.[00:00:53]

If our eyes we'd close, then the lashes froze[00:00:55]

Til sometimes we couldn't see.[00:00:58]

It wasn't much fun, but the only one[00:01:01]

To whimper was Sam McGee.[00:01:03]

And that very night while we lay packed tight[00:01:06]

In our robes beneath the snow,[00:01:08]

And the dogs were fed, and the stars o'er head[00:01:11]

Were dancing heel and toe,[00:01:13]

He turns to me, and "Cap" says he[00:01:16]

"I'll cash in this trip, I guess.[00:01:19]

And if I do, I'm asking that you[00:01:22]

Won't refuse my last request."[00:01:24]

Well, he looked so low that I couldn't say no,[00:01:27]

Then he says with a sort of a moan,[00:01:30]

"It's the cursed cold, it's got right hold[00:01:33]

Til I'm chilled clean through to the bone.[00:01:37]

Yet tain't being dead, it's my awful dread[00:01:40]

Of an icy grave that pains.[00:01:43]

So I want you to swear that foul or fair,[00:01:46]

You'll cremate my last remains."[00:01:50]

Well, a friend's last need is a thing to heed,[00:01:54]

So I swore I would not fail.[00:01:58]

We started on at the streak of dawn,[00:02:00]

But, God, he looked ghastly pale![00:02:02]

He crouched on the sleigh, and he raved all day[00:02:06]

Of his home in Tennessee,[00:02:09]

And before nightfall, a corpse was all[00:02:11]

That was left of Sam McGee.[00:02:14]

There wasn't a breath in that land of death,[00:02:18]

And I hurried on, horror driven[00:02:20]

With a corpse half hid, that I couldn't get rid,[00:02:23]

Because of a promise given.[00:02:25]

It was lashed to the sleigh, and it seemed to say,[00:02:28]

"You may tax your brawn and brains,[00:02:30]

But you promised true, and it's up to you[00:02:34]

To cremate these last remains."[00:02:37]

Now, a promise made is a debt unpaid[00:02:41]

And the trail has its own stern code,[00:02:44]

In the days to come, though my lips were numb[00:02:47]

In my heart, how I cursed that load.[00:02:51]

In the long, long night, by the lone firelight[00:02:54]

While the huskiers, round in a ring[00:02:57]

Howled out their woes to the homeless snows[00:03:00]

Oh God! How I loathed the thing.[00:03:02]

And every day that quiet clay[00:03:06]

Seemed to heavy and heavier grow.[00:03:08]

But on I went, though the dogs were spent[00:03:11]

And the grub was getting low.[00:03:13]

The trail was bad, and I felt half mad,[00:03:15]

But I swore I would not give in.[00:03:18]

And I'd often sing to the hateful thing[00:03:21]

And it harkened with a grin![00:03:24]

Then I came to the marge of Lake LeBarge[00:03:27]

And a derelict there lay.[00:03:30]

It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice[00:03:32]

It was called the "Alice May".[00:03:35]

And I looked at it, and I thought a bit,[00:03:37]

And I looked at my frozen chum,[00:03:40]

Then "Here" said I with a sudden cry[00:03:42]

"is my cre-ma-tor-eum!"[00:03:45]

Some planks I tore from the cabin floor[00:03:48]

And I lit the boiler fire.[00:03:50]

Some coal I found that was lying around[00:03:52]

And I heaped the fuel higher.[00:03:55]

The flames just soared and the furnace roared,[00:03:58]

Such a blaze you seldom see.[00:04:00]

Then I burrowed a hole in the glowing coal[00:04:02]

And I stuffed in Sam McGee.[00:04:04]

Then I made a hike, for I didn't like[00:04:07]

To hear him sizzle so.[00:04:09]

And the heavens scowled and the huskies howled[00:04:11]

And the wind began to blow.[00:04:13]

It was icy cold, but the hot sweat rolled[00:04:15]

Down my cheeks, and I don't know why.[00:04:18]

And the greasy smoke in an inky cloak[00:04:21]

Went streaking down the sky.[00:04:23]

I do not know how long in the snow[00:04:27]

I wrestled with grisly fear.[00:04:29]

But the stars were out and they danced about[00:04:31]

Ere again I ventured near.[00:04:34]

I was sick with dread, but I bravely said[00:04:36]

"I'll just take a peek inside.[00:04:39]

He's probably cooked, and it's time I looked."[00:04:42]

Then the door I opened wide.[00:04:45]

And there sat Sam, looking cold and calm[00:04:47]

In the heart of the furnace roar.[00:04:50]

He wore a smile you could see a mile,[00:04:52]

And he said "Please close that door![00:04:55]

It's fine in here, but I greatly fear[00:04:56]

You'll let in the cold and storm.[00:04:59]

Since I left Plumtree, down in Tennessee,[00:05:01]

It's the first time I've been warm."[00:05:05]

There are strange things done 'neath the midnight sun[00:05:09]

By the men who moil for gold.[00:05:11]

The arctic trails have their secret tales[00:05:14]

That would make your blood run cold.[00:05:17]

The northern lights have seen queer sights,[00:05:19]

But the queerest they ever did see[00:05:22]

Was that night on the marge of Lake LeBarge[00:05:25]

I cremated Sam McGee.[00:05:28]