《Mark Twain》歌词

[00:00:01] Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte

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

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

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

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

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

[00:00:19] With a hunk a lead on the end of it

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

[00:00:23] And let it fly into the river

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

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

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

[00:00:40] Cause then and there year after year

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

[00:00:43] Until in the eighteen hundreds a little man

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

[00:00:47] Whole gauging industry

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

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

[00:00:57] And in between each marking he'd

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

[00:01:43] Mark Twain Mark Twain

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

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

[00:02:11] Sings dirty songs down on Beel street

[00:02:19] Mark Twain Mark Twain

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

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

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

[00:02:49] Mark Twain I won't save my money

[00:02:55] Till the day I die

[00:02:57] They gonna bury me all but my good right eye

[00:03:01] Mark twain Mark Twain

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

[00:03:24] Look out skipper pull it to the side

[00:03:26] You gonna bust your bow and split your hide

[00:03:29] Oh great God we done run it down

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

[00:03:35] Mark Twain