《Mark Twain》歌词

[00:00:00] Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte/Odetta (欧蒂塔)

[00:00:05] 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

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

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

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

[00:00:24] And let it fly into the river

[00:00:26] 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

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

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

[00:00:48] Whole gauging industry

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

[00:00:53] 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

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

[00:01:08] 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

[00:01:44] Mark Twain Mark Twain

[00:01:58] 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

[00:02:20] Mark Twain Mark Twain

[00:02:33] Two fathoms off the starboard bow

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

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

[00:02:50] 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

[00:03:02] Mark twain Mark Twain

[00:03:15] 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

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

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

[00:03:36] Mark Twain