《Mark Twain》歌词

歌曲： Mark Twain

所属专辑：110 Essential Classics - The Very Best Of

歌手： Harry Belafonte

时长： 03:47

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Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte[00:00:00]

Written by：Trad Belafonte[00:00:00]

Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats[00:00:05]

They had men called gaugers[00:00:08]

And the job of a gauger was to hang off[00:00:11]

The side of the boat with one hand[00:00:15]

And in the other hand he had a ball of twine[00:00:17]

With a hunk a lead on the end of it[00:00:18]

He'd wield the lead above his head[00:00:21]

And let it fly into the water[00:00:22]

Wherever the water marked the twine[00:00:25]

He'd call up to the skipper and say[00:00:28]

Marking on the twine is four fathoms[00:00:32]

'Cause then and there year after year[00:00:39]

It was getting pretty monotonous[00:00:41]

Until in the eighteen hundreds a little man[00:00:44]

Came along and revolutionized the[00:00:46]

Whole gauging industry[00:00:48]

Instead of saying marking on the twine[00:00:50]

He cut it short and said Mark twain[00:00:53]

And in between each marking he'd[00:00:58]

Fill it in with a little pattern about himself[00:01:00]

And his every day life[00:01:03]

Well if you'd been living at that time[00:01:05]

Coming up from a distance on the Mississippi[00:01:08]

It would have sounded like this[00:01:12]

Mark Twain four fathoms off the starboard bow[00:01:16]

I got a gal named Cindy Lou[00:01:36]

Feeds me gin and bake beans too[00:01:40]

Mark Twain Mark Twain[00:01:44]

Three fathoms off the starboard bow[00:01:58]

I got a friend his name is Pete[00:02:07]

Sings dirty songs down on Beel street[00:02:12]

Mark Twain Mark Twain[00:02:20]

Two fathoms off the starboard bow[00:02:34]

I've been working the river since ninety two[00:02:42]

I get a penny a day and bad liquor too[00:02:46]

Mark Twain I won't save my money[00:02:50]

Till I die[00:02:56]

He gonna bury me all but my good right eye[00:02:58]

Mark Twain Mark Twain[00:03:02]

No fathoms off the starboard bow[00:03:16]

Look out skipper pull it to the side[00:03:25]

You gonna bust your bow and split your hide[00:03:27]

Oh great God we done run it down[00:03:31]

Skipper gonna chase me with a big blood hound[00:03:34]

Mark Twain[00:03:37]