Mark Twain-Harry Belafonte

[ti:Mark Twain] [ar:Harry Belafonte] [al:Favourite Folk Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte [00:06.23]Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats [00:08.01] [00:09.70]They had men called gaugers [00:10.68] [00:12.56]And the job of a gauger was to hang off [00:15.64]The side of the boat with one hand [00:17.01] [00:18.17]And in the other hand he had a ball of twine [00:19.77]With a hunk a lead on the end of it [00:21.38] [00:22.43]He'd wield the lead above his head [00:23.81]And let it fly into the water [00:25.23] [00:26.58]Wherever the water marked the twine [00:28.00] [00:29.36]He'd call up to the skipper and say [00:30.91] [00:33.15]Marking on the twine is four fathoms [00:37.21] [00:40.33]Cause then and there year after year [00:41.83]It was getting pretty monotonous [00:42.92] [00:44.77]Until in the eighteen hundreds a little man [00:47.57]Came along and revolutionized the [00:48.64]Whole gauging industry [00:49.72] [00:51.43]Instead of saying marking on the twine [00:52.82] [00:54.17]He cut it short and said Mark twain [00:56.90] [00:58.78]And in between each marking he'd [01:00.91]Fill it in with a little pattern about himself [01:02.82] [01:03.82]And his every day life [01:04.80] [01:06.53]Well if you'd been living at that time [01:08.06] [01:09.24]Coming up from a distance on the Mississippi [01:10.89] [01:12.53]It would have sounded like this [01:13.75] [01:17.43]Mark Twain four fathoms off the starboard bow [01:33.85] [01:36.98]I got a gal named Cindy-Lou [01:38.18] [01:40.74]Feeds me gin and bake beans too [01:43.09] [01:45.03]Mark Twain Mark Twain [01:53.92] [01:59.23]Three fathoms off the starboard bow [02:05.36] [02:08.36]I got a friend his name is Pete [02:10.77] [02:12.46]Sings dirty songs down on Beel street [02:14.93] [02:20.86]Mark Twain Mark Twain [02:29.40] [02:34.36]Two fathoms off the starboard bow [02:40.62] [02:42.92]I've been working the river since ninety two [02:45.17] [02:47.10]I get a penny a day and bad liquor too [02:49.36] [02:51.09]Mark Twain I won't save my money [02:56.23]Till I die [02:56.92] [02:58.49]He gonna bury me all but my good right eye [03:00.55] [03:03.06]Mark twain Mark Twain [03:11.05] [03:16.47]No fathoms off the starboard bow [03:23.43] [03:25.17]Look out skipper pull it to the side [03:27.32]You gonna bust your bow and split your hide [03:29.70] [03:31.17]Oh great God we done run it down [03:33.82]Skipper gonna chase me with a big blood hound [03:36.03] [03:37.52]Mark Twain