《Bonita And Bill Butler》歌词

歌曲： Bonita And Bill Butler

所属专辑：Paper Airplane

歌手： Alison Krauss & Union Sta

时长： 04:03

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Bonita And Bill Butler - Alison Krauss[00:00:00]

I grew up in the scantling yards of[00:00:07]

Wheeling West Virginia[00:00:10]

A wheelhouse cub looking for an open door[00:00:14]

In the packet ways a Sweeney wed[00:00:19]

The keel of my Bonita[00:00:21]

Just two months from her timbers til she moored[00:00:25]

I paid the fare in billet on her maiden[00:00:31]

Voyage to Vicksburg[00:00:34]

And talked my way to hand the tiller on the course[00:00:37]

In her planks I carved a notch[00:00:43]

And sealed the vow “Be my Bonita”[00:00:45]

And her dowry was my life between the shores[00:00:49]

I was born with rouging ways [00:00:54]

And she steered me like a woman[00:00:57]

From the port calls and the bawds that lead me stray[00:01:01]

The calliope serenades [00:01:06]

Made the old towns come running[00:01:09]

And the boys would gamble shards to pull her chains[00:01:12]

The striker’s boast would fain me loss [00:01:18]

About the wrecks the shoals were keeping[00:01:21]

And how the old girl’s got poor Billy’s ransom saved[00:01:25]

On the lake at Bistineau she set the wharf at Dixie[00:01:54]

With a thousand bales of cotton on her main[00:02:01]

As the great raft disappeared the watermark went sinking[00:02:06]

And she was stuck right hard a listing on the bank[00:02:12]

With the furnace still a blaze I stood my last upon her[00:02:18]

Then climbed the prow and took a landsman’s trade[00:02:25]

“A derelict now Milady” said the watch log I’ve concorded[00:02:30]

“Have the bosun sound us eight bells for the change”[00:02:36]

Cause I was born with rouging ways [00:02:42]

And she steered me like a woman[00:02:45]

From the port calls and the bawds that lead me stray[00:02:49]

The calliope serenades made the old towns come running[00:02:53]

And the boys would gamble shards to pull her chains[00:03:00]

And I would take to wider walks [00:03:05]

So the gin I stopped a drinking[00:03:08]

At three scores aloft this crooked frame[00:03:13]

The striker’s boast would fain me loss [00:03:17]

About the wrecks the shoals were keeping[00:03:20]

And how the old girl’s got poor Billy’s ransom saved[00:03:24]