Mark Twain-Harry Belafonte

[ti:Mark Twain] [ar:Harry Belafonte] [al:Pretty As A Rainbow] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte [00:05.29]Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats [00:07.46] [00:08.60]They had men called gaugers [00:10.45] [00:11.62]And the job of a gauger was to hang off [00:14.89]The side of the boat with one hand [00:16.43] [00:17.19]And in the other hand he had a ball of twine [00:19.11]With a hunk a lead on the end of it [00:20.86] [00:21.62]He'd wield the lead above his head [00:23.49]And let it fly into the river [00:24.78] [00:25.56]Wherever the water marked the twine [00:27.83] [00:28.34]He'd call up to the skipper and say [00:30.85] [00:32.16]Marking on the twine is four fathoms [00:36.50] [00:40.40]Cause then and there year after year [00:41.61]It was getting pretty monotonous [00:42.41] [00:43.74]Until in the eighteen hundreds a little man [00:46.55]Came along and revolutionized the [00:47.97]Whole gauging industry [00:50.69]Instead of saying marking on the twine [00:52.06] [00:53.20]He cut it short and said Mark twain [00:56.18] [00:57.69]And in between each marking he'd [01:00.18]Fill it in with a little pattern about himself [01:01.99] [01:02.68]And his every day life [01:03.70] [01:05.31]Well if you'd been living at that time [01:06.94] [01:08.11]Coming up from a distance on the Mississippi [01:10.45] [01:11.48]It would have sounded like this [01:12.82] [01:16.38]Mark Twain four fathoms off the starboard bow [01:33.75] [01:35.68]I got a gal named Cindy-Lou [01:37.31] [01:39.50]Feeds me gin and bake beans too [01:42.85] [01:43.81]Mark Twain Mark Twain [01:55.77] [01:57.90]Three fathoms off the starboard bow [02:05.57] [02:07.05]I got a friend his name is Pete [02:10.14] [02:11.11]Sings dirty songs down on Beel street [02:13.68] [02:19.49]Mark Twain Mark Twain [02:30.95] [02:32.95]Two fathoms off the starboard bow [02:41.67]I've been working the river since ninety two [02:44.49] [02:45.56]I get a penny a day and bad liquor too [02:48.73] [02:49.69]Mark Twain I won't save my money [02:55.28]Till the day I die [02:57.09]They gonna bury me all but my good right eye [02:59.55] [03:01.42]Mark twain Mark Twain [03:12.65] [03:14.90]No fathoms off the starboard bow [03:24.25]Look out skipper pull it to the side [03:26.11]You gonna bust your bow and split your hide [03:28.36] [03:29.55]Oh great God we done run it down [03:32.77]Skipper gonna chase me with a big blood hound [03:34.91] [03:35.92]Mark Twain