Talking Union (Remastered 2014)歌词由Pete Seeger演唱,出自专辑《Hits of Pete Seeger》,下面是《Talking Union (Remastered 2014)》完整版歌词!
Talking Union (Remastered 2014)歌词完整版
Talking Union - Pete Seeger
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Now if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do
如果你想要更高的薪水让我告诉你该怎么做
You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you
你得和店里的工人谈谈
You got to build you a union got to make it strong
你必须建立一个强大的联盟
But if you all stick together for I won't be long
但如果你们团结一致我不会去太久
You'll get shorter hours
你会缩短工作时间
Better working conditions vacations with pay
更好的工作条件带薪休假
Take your kids to the seashore
带你的孩子去海边
It ain't quite this simple so I better explain
事情没有这么简单所以我最好解释一下
Just why you got to ride on the union train
为何你要坐上工会的列车
'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay
因为如果你等着老板给你加薪
We'll all be waiting till judgment day
我们会等到审判日
We'll all he buried gone to heaven
我们会将他埋葬上天堂
Saint peter'll be the straw boss then
到时候圣人彼得会做个无名小卒
Now you know you're underpaid hut the boss says you ain't
现在你知道你的薪水很低但老板说你没有
He speeds up the work till you're 'bout to faint
他加快速度直到你快要晕倒
You may he down and out but you ain't beaten
你也许他穷困潦倒可你从未被打败
You can pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'
你可以散发传单召开会议
Talk it over speak your mind
好好谈谈吐露心声
Decide to do something about it
决定做点什么
'Course the boss may persuade some poor damn fool
当然老板可能会说服某个可怜的傻瓜
To go to your meeting and act like a stool
去参加你的会议并表现得像个凳子
But you can always tell a stool though that's a fact
但你总能说出一个凳子,尽管这是事实
He got a yellow streak running down his back
他背上有一条黄色的条纹
He doesn't have to stool he'll always get long
他不必大便,他总是会变长
On what he takes out of blind mens cups
他从盲人杯子里拿出了什么
You got a union now you're sitting pretty
你有一个工会现在你过得很潇洒
Put some of the boys on the steering committee
让一些男孩加入指导委员会
The boss won't listen when one man squawks
当有人抱怨的时候老板不会听
But he's got to listen when the union talks he better
但他必须认真倾听工会的谈话他会做得更好
He'll be mighty lonely everybody decided work out on here
他会非常孤独每个人都决定在这里工作
Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous
假设他们让你很辛苦这简直太过分了
They're paying you all starvation wages
他们给你们的工资都快饿死了
You go to the boss and the boss would yell
你去找老板老板会大吼大叫
Before I'd raise your pay I'd see you all in hell
在我给你加薪之前我会让你生不如死
Well he's puffing a big segar and feeling mighty slick
他吞云吐雾感觉自己游刃有余
He thinks he's got your union licked
他以为你的帮派被他打败了
He looks out the window and what does he see
他望向窗外他看到了什么
But a thousand pickets and they all agree
但是一千个纠察队员都同意
He's a bastard unfair slave driver
Bet he beats his own wife
他肯定会打自己的老婆
Now boy you've come to the hardest time
现在男孩你已经到了最艰难的时刻
The boss will try to bust your picket line
老大会试图突破你的防线
He'll call out the police the national guard
他会叫来警察和国民警卫队
They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card
他们会告诉你拥有工会卡是一种罪恶
They'll raid your meeting hit you on the head
他们会突袭你的会场一击致命
Thay're call every one of you a goddamn red
他们说你们每个人都是血帮人
Unpatriotic japanese fats
不爱国的日本胖子
Save the talking national decides
拯救那些夸夸其谈的国家决定
But out in detroit here's what they found
但在底特律他们找到的是这样的
And out in frisco here's what they found
这是他们在旧金山找到的东西
And out in pittsburgh here's what they found
在匹兹堡这是他们的发现
And down in bethlehem here's what they found
这是他们在伯利恒找到的东西
That if you don't let red-baiting break you up
如果你不愿让别人伤害你
And if you don't let stool pigeons break you up
如果你不让鸽子把你打垮
If you don't let vigilantes break you up
如果你不让义警把你打得落花流水
And if you don't let race hatred break you up
如果你不让种族仇恨将你击垮
You'll win what I mean
你会胜利的我什么意思
Take it easy but take it
放轻松但是不要着急