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Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte

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[00:00.51]Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte [00:05.21]M...
[00:00.51]Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte
[00:05.21]Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats
[00:08.47]They had men called gaugers
[00:11.4]And the job of a gauger was to hang off
[00:14.81]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
[00:23.46]And let it fly into the river
[00:25.28]Wherever the water marked the twine
[00:27.98]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
[00:40.84]It was getting pretty monotonous
[00:43.34]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
[01:02.15]And his every day life
[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
[01:15.59]Mark Twain four fathoms off the starboard bow
[01:34.95]I got a gal named Cindy-Lou
[01:38.759995]Feeds me gin and bake beans too
[01:42.89]Mark Twain Mark Twain
[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
[02:18.45999]Mark Twain Mark Twain
[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
[02:48.48]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
[03:00.35]Mark twain Mark Twain
[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
[03:28.20999]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
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