《Sully’s pail(LP版)》歌词

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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