《Mark Twain》歌词

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

[00:00:06] Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats

[00:00:09] They had men called gaugers

[00:00:12] And the job of a gauger was to hang off

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

[00:00:18] And in the other hand he had a ball of twine

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

[00:00:22] He'd wield the lead above his head

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

[00:00:26] Wherever the water marked the twine

[00:00:29] He'd call up to the skipper and say

[00:00:33] 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

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

[00:00:47] Came along and revolutionized the

[00:00:48] Whole gauging industry

[00:00:51] Instead of saying marking on the twine

[00:00:54] He cut it short and said Mark twain

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

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

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

[00:01:06] Well if you'd been living at that time

[00:01:09] Coming up from a distance on the Mississippi

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

[00:01:17] Mark Twain four fathoms off the starboard bow

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

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

[00:01:45] Mark Twain Mark Twain

[00:01:59] Three fathoms off the starboard bow

[00:02:08] I got a friend his name is Pete

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

[00:02:20] Mark Twain Mark Twain

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

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

[00:02:47] I get a penny a day and bad liquor too

[00:02:51] Mark Twain I won't save my money

[00:02:56] Till I die

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

[00:03:03] Mark twain Mark Twain

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

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

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

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

[00:03:33] Skipper gonna chase me with a big blood hound

[00:03:37] Mark Twain