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Have you heard about the big strong man?
He lives in a caravan;
Have you heard about the Jeffrey-Johnson fight?
Oh, Lord, what a hell of a fight.
You can take all the heavyweights you got,
We have a man that can take the whole lot;
He used to ring the bells in the belfry,
Now he's gonna fight Jack Demspey.
That's me brother Sylvest, (WHAT'S HE GOT?)
With a row of forty medals on his chest; (BIG CHEST!)
He killed fifty bad men in the west, he knows no rest,
Think of a man, hell's fire, don't push, just shove.
Plenty of room for you and me,
He's got an arm like a leg;
And a punch that would sink a battleship, (BIG SHIP!)
It takes all the army and the navy to put the wind up Sylvest.
Well, he thought he'd take a trip to Italy,
And he thought that he'd go by sea;
So he jumped off the harbour in New York,
And he swam like a man in a corpse.
Then he saw the Lusitania in distress,
Put the Lusitania on his chest,
Drank all of the water in the sea,
Then he walked all the way to Italy.
That was me brother Sylvest, (WHAT'S HE GOT?)
With a row of forty medals on his chest; (BIG CHEST!)
He killed fifty bad men in the west, he knows no rest;
Think of a man, hell's fire, don't push, just shove.
Plenty of room for you and me,
He's got an arm like a leg;
And a punch that would sink a battleship, (BIG SHIP!)
It takes all the army and the navy to put the wind up Sylvest.
Well, he thought he'd take a trip to old Japan,
They brought out the whole brass band;
He played every instrument they got,
My Lord, he played the whole lot.
And the old church bells will ring,
And the old church choir will sing;
And that's how they said farewell to my big brother Sylvest'.
That was me brother Sylvest, (WHAT'S HE GOT?)
With a row of forty medals on his chest; (BIG CHEST!)
He killed fifty bad men in the west, he knows no rest;
Think of a man, hell's fire, don't push, just shove.
Plenty of room for you and me,
He's got an arm like a leg;
And a punch that would sink a battleship, (BIG SHIP!)
It takes all the army and the navy to put the wind up Sylvest.
That was me brother Sylvest, (WHAT'S HE GOT?)
With a row of forty medals on his chest; (BIG CHEST!)
He killed fifty bad men in the west, he knows no rest;
Think of a man, hell's fire, don't push, just shove.
Plenty of room for you and me,
He's got an arm like a leg;
And a punch that would sink a battleship, (BIG SHIP!)
It takes all the army and the navy to put the wind up Sylvest.
That was me brother Sylvest', (WHAT'S HE GOT?)
With a row of forty medals on his chest; (BIG CHEST!)
He killed fifty bad men in the west, he knows no rest;
Think of a man, hell's fire, don't push, just shove.
Plenty of room for you and me,
He's got an arm like a leg;
And a punch that would sink a battleship, (BIG SHIP!)
It takes all the army and the navy to put the wind up Sylvest.
Diddely yah dah....
