《Mark Twain》歌词

歌曲： Mark Twain

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歌手： Harry Belafonte

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

Written by：Trad Arr Belafonte[00:00:01]

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

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

And the job of a gauger[00:00:11]

Was to hang off[00:00:13]

The side of the boat with one hand[00:00:14]

And in the other hand he had a ball of twine[00:00:16]

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[00:00:31]

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

It was getting pretty monotonous[00:00:40]

Until in the eighteen hundreds[00:00:43]

A little man[00:00:45]

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

Whole gauging industry[00:00:47]

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

He cut it short and said[00:00:52]

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And in between each marking[00:00:57]

Fill it in with a little pattern about himself[00:00:59]

And his every day life[00:01:02]

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

Coming up from a distance on the Mississippi[00:01:07]

It would have sounded like this[00:01:11]

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Four fathoms off the starboard bow[00:01:26]

I got a gal named Cindy Lou[00:01:35]

Feeds me gin and bake beans too[00:01:39]

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Three fathoms off the starboard bow[00:01:57]

I got a friend his name is Pete[00:02:06]

Sings dirty songs down on beel street[00:02:10]

Hahahha hahahah[00:02:13]

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Two fathoms off the starboard bow[00:02:32]

I've been working the river since ninety two[00:02:41]

I get a penny a day and bad liquor too[00:02:45]

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I won't save my money[00:02:53]

'Till I die[00:02:54]

They gonna bury me all but my good right eye[00:02:56]

Haahahaha[00:02:59]

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No fathoms off the starboard bow[00:03:14]

Look out skipper pull it to the side[00:03:23]

You gonna bust your bow and split your hide[00:03:25]

Oh great[00:03:29]

God we done run it down[00:03:30]

Skipper gonna chase me with a big blood hound[00:03:32]

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