《Sully’s pail(LP版)》歌词

歌曲： Sully’s pail(LP版)

所属专辑：Ain’t That News (US Release)

歌手： tom paxton

时长： 03:12

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Sully's pail - Tom Paxton[00:00:00]

I've a thing or two ta tell ya[00:00:00]

That I think you ought to know [00:00:02]

About that rusty bucket Sully carries down below [00:00:06]

You're not the first one stranger [00:00:11]

That has laughed at Sully's Pail;[00:00:13]

You're the only one that's laughing now [00:00:17]

The rest has heard this tale [00:00:20]

Sure when we was young and handsome [00:00:25]

Had ten years in the game [00:00:27]

Old Sull he had a partner and Jim Rielly was his name [00:00:30]

They had knocked about together [00:00:35]

Bingham Butte and Coeur D'Alene[00:00:37]

And they brawled in every bar-room[00:00:41]

From Ely to Fort McLean [00:00:43]

Now me and old Ted Johnson [00:00:47]

Sure you'll not remember him [00:00:49]

We was working at the Rarus[00:00:52]

Had a stope with Sull and Jim [00:00:53]

The four of us together [00:00:57]

We was working side-by-side [00:00:58]

That's how I chanced to be there[00:01:02]

On the night Jim Reilly died [00:01:05]

Well the blastin' had been easy [00:01:09]

It was coming out like sand [00:01:11]

And we was muckin' out the ore [00:01:14]

Those days we mucked by hand [00:01:16]

And we was nearly finished [00:01:18]

And I hadn't heard a sound [00:01:20]

But something must have happened [00:01:23]

For Jim Reilly yelled "Bad ground "[00:01:26]

When we headed for the timb'ring [00:01:30]

Sully must've took a spill [00:01:32]

For when we looked back in there [00:01:35]

He was pinned beneath his drill [00:01:37]

The ceiling; it was groaning now [00:01:40]

All set to drop the lid [00:01:42]

And Sully pinned beneath his drill [00:01:44]

Was sobbing like a kid [00:01:48]

Well there's some can watch their partners die [00:01:53]

Not throw their lives away [00:01:56]

But Reilly wasn't one of them [00:01:58]

He wasn't built that way [00:02:00]

As soon's he seed what happened [00:02:03]

"Hey hold on there Sull " he cried [00:02:05]

And before he had the words out [00:02:09]

He had thrown the drill aside [00:02:11]

They come around the ore car [00:02:16]

Reilly wearing a big grin [00:02:18]

Guess he never knew what happened[00:02:21]

When the hanging wall caved in [00:02:23]

Sully reached the timb'ring his face as white as chalk [00:02:27]

And Reilly two yards back of him [00:02:32]

Caught fifteen tons of rock [00:02:37]

That day Sully's pail was buried [00:02:42]

He ate from Reilly's pail in tears [00:02:45]

And he's carried that same bucket now[00:02:49]

For more than twenty years;[00:02:52]

So you can laugh at Sull because[00:02:55]

He's mean and drinks a lot [00:02:58]

But don't laugh at Sully's bucket [00:03:01]

That's the only friend he's got[00:03:05]