Mark Twain-Harry Belafonte

[ti:Mark Twain] [ar:Harry Belafonte] [al:Classic Folk Songs - Vol. 5- Harry Belafonte] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.01]Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte [00:00.02]Written by：Harry Belafonte/Traditional [00:00.04] [00:05.21]Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats [00:08.47]They had men called gaugers [00:11.41]And the job of a gauger was to hang off [00:14.82]The side of the boat with one hand [00:17.04]And in the other hand he had a ball of twine [00:19.26]With a hunk a lead on the end of it [00:21.52]He'd wield the lead above his head [00:23.47]And let it fly into the river [00:25.28]Wherever the water marked the twine [00:27.99]He'd call up to the skipper and say [00:31.75]Marking on the twine is four fathoms [00:39.34]Cause then and there year after year [00:40.85]It was getting pretty monotonous [00:41.80] [00:43.35]Until in the eighteen hundreds a little man [00:46.06]Came along and revolutionized the [00:47.17]Whole gauging industry [00:49.37]Instead of saying marking on the twine [00:52.68]He cut it short and said Mark twain [00:57.13]And in between each marking he'd [00:59.22]Fill it in with a little pattern about himself [01:00.97] [01:02.15]And his every day life [01:04.26] [01:04.84]Well if you'd been living at that time [01:07.53]Coming up from a distance on the Mississippi [01:10.82]It would have sounded like this [01:12.65] [01:15.59]Mark Twain four fathoms off the starboard bow [01:34.95]I got a gal named Cindy-Lou [01:36.54] [01:38.76]Feeds me gin and bake beans too [01:42.89]Mark Twain Mark Twain [01:55.33] [01:57.03]Three fathoms off the starboard bow [02:05.96]I got a friend his name is Pete [02:10.05]Sings dirty songs down on Beel street [02:14.52] [02:18.46]Mark Twain Mark Twain [02:30.22] [02:31.93]Two fathoms off the starboard bow [02:40.43]I've been working the river since ninety two [02:44.48]I get a penny a day and bad liquor too [02:47.96] [02:48.48]Mark Twain I won't save my money [02:53.77]Till the day I die [02:55.92]They gonna bury me all but my good right eye [02:59.61] [03:00.35]Mark twain Mark Twain [03:11.75] [03:13.65]No fathoms off the starboard bow [03:22.44]Look out skipper pull it to the side [03:24.62]You gonna bust your bow and split your hide [03:27.70] [03:28.21]Oh great God we done run it down [03:31.17]Skipper gonna chase me with a big blood hound [03:34.47]Mark Twain