Mark Twain-Harry Belafonte

[ti:Mark Twain] [ar:Harry Belafonte] [al:Legends (Deluxe Edition)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte [00:05.91]Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats [00:09.29]They had men called gaugers [00:10.61] [00:12.20]And the job of a gauger was to hang off [00:15.35]The side of the boat with one hand [00:17.28] [00:17.85]And in the other hand he had a ball of twine [00:19.69]With a hunk a lead on the end of it [00:22.43]He'd wield the lead above his head [00:24.04]And let it fly into the river [00:25.48] [00:26.12]Wherever the water marked the twine [00:28.31] [00:28.90]He'd call up to the skipper and say [00:30.86] [00:32.67]Marking on the twine is four fathoms [00:37.78] [00:40.08]'Cause then and there year after year [00:41.63]It was getting pretty monotonous [00:43.09] [00:44.41]Until in the eighteen hundreds a little man [00:47.04]Came along and revolutionized the [00:48.33]Whole gauging industry [00:49.98] [00:50.88]Instead of saying marking on the twine [00:53.67]He cut it short and said Mark twain [00:56.76] [00:58.23]And in between each marking he'd [01:00.39]Fill it in with a little pattern about himself [01:03.24]And his every day life [01:05.15] [01:05.91]Well if you'd been living at that time [01:08.68]Coming up from a distance on the Mississippi [01:12.00]It would have sounded like this [01:14.67] [01:17.02]Mark Twain four fathoms off the starboard bow [01:35.04] [01:36.30]I got a gal named Cindy Lou [01:39.02] [01:40.09]Feeds me gin and bake beans too [01:44.21]Mark Twain Mark Twain [01:57.08] [01:58.50]Three fathoms off the starboard bow [02:06.59] [02:07.69]I got a friend his name is Pete [02:11.76]Sings dirty songs down on Beel street [02:14.68] [02:20.02]Mark Twain Mark Twain [02:31.99] [02:33.58]Two fathoms off the starboard bow [02:42.20]I've been working the river since ninety two [02:45.00] [02:46.25]I get a penny a day and bad liquor too [02:49.17] [02:50.19]Mark Twain I won't save my money [02:55.56]Till the day I die [02:57.17] [02:57.79]They gonna bury me all but my good right eye [03:00.75] [03:02.16]Mark twain Mark Twain [03:12.61] [03:15.55]No fathoms off the starboard bow [03:24.14]Look out skipper pull it to the side [03:26.62]You gonna bust your bow and split your hide [03:30.14]Oh great God we done run it down [03:33.21]Skipper gonna chase me with a big blood hound [03:35.70] [03:36.61]Mark Twain