Sully's pail (LP版)-Tom Paxton

[ti:sully's pail] [ar:Tom Paxton] [al:Ain't That News (US Release)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Sully's pail (LP版) - Tom Paxton [00:00.62]I've a thing or two ta tell ya [00:02.84]That I think you ought to know [00:06.04]About that rusty bucket Sully carries down below [00:11.21]You're not the first one stranger [00:13.77]That has laughed at Sully's Pail; [00:17.25]You're the only one that's laughing now [00:20.78]The rest has heard this tale [00:23.83] [00:25.06]Sure when we was young and handsome [00:27.45]Had ten years in the game [00:30.57]Old Sull he had a partner and Jim Rielly was his name [00:35.65]They had knocked about together [00:37.77]Bingham Butte and Coeur D'Alene [00:41.03]And they brawled in every bar-room [00:43.38]From Ely to Fort McLean [00:46.74] [00:47.93]Now me and old Ted Johnson [00:49.74]Sure you'll not remember him [00:52.26]We was working at the Rarus [00:53.99]Had a stope with Sull and Jim [00:57.18]The four of us together [00:58.98]We was working side-by-side [01:02.65]That's how I chanced to be there [01:05.30]On the night Jim Reilly died [01:08.42] [01:09.19]Well the blastin' had been easy [01:11.61]It was coming out like sand [01:14.09]And we was muckin' out the ore [01:16.07]Those days we mucked by hand [01:18.93]And we was nearly finished [01:20.58]And I hadn't heard a sound [01:23.73]But something must have happened [01:26.26]For Jim Reilly yelled "Bad ground " [01:30.05]When we headed for the timb'ring [01:32.74]Sully must've took a spill [01:35.24]For when we looked back in there [01:37.41]He was pinned beneath his drill [01:40.31]The ceiling; it was groaning now [01:42.38]All set to drop the lid [01:44.92]And Sully pinned beneath his drill [01:48.39]Was sobbing like a kid [01:52.44] [01:53.31]Well there's some can watch their partners die [01:56.02]Not throw their lives away [01:58.55]But Reilly wasn't one of them [02:00.81]He wasn't built that way [02:03.55]As soon's he seed what happened [02:05.63]"Hey hold on there Sull " he cried [02:09.11]And before he had the words out [02:11.56]He had thrown the drill aside [02:15.86] [02:16.37]They come around the ore car [02:18.08]Reilly wearing a big grin [02:21.17]Guess he never knew what happened [02:23.62]When the hanging wall caved in [02:27.76]Sully reached the timb'ring his face as white as chalk [02:32.85]And Reilly two yards back of him [02:36.81] [02:37.48]Caught fifteen tons of rock [02:41.02] [02:42.35]That day Sully's pail was buried [02:45.00]He ate from Reilly's pail in tears [02:49.21]And he's carried that same bucket now [02:52.21]For more than twenty years; [02:55.78]So you can laugh at Sull because [02:58.41]He's mean and drinks a lot [03:01.05]But don't laugh at Sully's bucket [03:04.02] [03:05.10]That's the only friend he's got