Talking Union歌词-The Almanac Singers

Talking Union歌词由The Almanac Singers演唱，出自专辑《The Vibe of New York - Songs and Music from 1945 to 1959》，下面是《Talking Union》完整版歌词！

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Talking Union - The Almanac Singers

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Now if you want higher wages

如果你想要更高的薪水

Let me tell you what to do

让我告诉你该怎么做

You got to talk to the workers

你得和工人谈谈

In the shop with you

和你在商店里

You got to build you a union

你得为自己建立一个联盟

Got to make it strong

必须让它变得强大

But if you all stick together

但如果你们团结一致

Boys it won't be long

男孩们很快就好

You get shorter hours

你的工作时间越来越短

Better working conditions

更好的工作条件

Vacations with pay

带薪休假

Take your kids to the seashore

带你的孩子去海边

It ain't quite this simple

没有这么简单

So I better explain

所以我最好解释一下

Just why you got to

你为何要这样做

Ride on the union train

搭乘联合列车

'Cause if you wait for

因为如果你等待

The boss to raise your pay

老板给你加薪

We'll all be a waiting till Judgment Day

我们会一直等待直到审判日

We'll all be buried

我们都会被埋葬

Gone to heaven

上了天堂

St Peter will be the straw boss then

到时候圣彼得会做个无名小卒

Now you know you're underpaid

现在你知道你的报酬太低了

But the boss says you ain't

可老板说你没有

He speeds up the work

他加快了速度

Till you're about to faint

直到你快要晕倒

You may be down and out

你也许穷困潦倒

But you ain't beaten

但你没有被打败

You can pass out a leaflet

你可以散发传单

And call a meeting

召开会议

Talk it over

好好谈谈

Speak your mind

说出你的心里话

Decide to do something about it

决定做点什么

'Course the boss may persuade

当然老板可能会劝说

Some poor damn fool

可怜的傻瓜

To go to your meeting

去参加你的会议

And act like a stool

像凳子一样行事

But you can always tell a stool

但你总能说出一个凳子

Though that's a fact

虽然这是事实

He's got a yaller streak a-running down his back

他有一种黄色的感觉从背上掠过

He doesn't have to stool

他不必大便

He'll always get along

他会永远和睦相处

On what he takes out of blind Men's cups

他从盲人杯子里拿出了什么

You got a union now

你现在有了一个联盟

And you're sitting pretty

你坐得很好看

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

老板不听

When one guy squawks

当一个人叽叽喳喳

But he's got to listen

但他必须侧耳倾听

When the union talks

当工会发言时

He'd better

他最好

Be mighty lonely

孤独寂寞

Everybody decide to walk out on him

每个人都决定离他而去

Suppose they're working you

假设他们在欺骗你

So hard it's just outrageous

如此艰难令人难以置信

And they're paying you all starvation wages

他们给你的工资都快饿死了

You go to the boss

你去找老板

And the boss would yell

老板会大吼一声

Before I raise your pay

在我给你加薪之前

I'd see you all in hell

我会在地狱里见到你们

Well he's puffing a big cigar

他抽着大雪茄

Feeling mighty slick

感觉妙不可言

'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked

因为他觉得他把你的帮派都打败了

Well he looks out the window

他望向窗外

And what does he see

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

不公平的

Slave driver

奴隶主

Bet he beats his wife

他肯定会打他老婆

Now boys you've come to the hardest time

现在孩子们你们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

他会叫来警察

The national guard

国民警卫队

They'll tell you

他们会告诉你

It's a crime to have a union card

拥有工会卡是一种罪恶

They'll raid your meeting

他们会突袭你的会场

They'll hit you on the head

他们会一拳打在你的头上

They'll call every one of you a Goddam red

他们会叫你们每个人都是红色的

Unpatriotic

不爱国的

Japanese spies

日本间谍

Sabotaging national defense

破坏国防

But out at Ford

但在福特

Here's what they found

这是他们的发现

And out at Vultee

在Vultee外面

Here's what they found

这是他们的发现

And out at Allis Chalmers

在AllisChalmers度假村

Here's what they found

这是他们的发现

And down at Bethlehem

在伯利恒

Here's what they found

这是他们的发现

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

And 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

你会胜利的

What I mean

我的意思是

Take it easy

放轻松

But take it

但是接受现实