Talking Union歌词由Pete Seeger演唱,出自专辑《Formative Years》,下面是《Talking Union》完整版歌词!
Talking Union歌词完整版
Talking Union - Pete Seeger
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If you want higher wages let me
如果你想要更高的工资那就让我来吧
Tell you what to do
告诉你该做什么
You got to talk to the
你得跟
Workers in the shop with you
店里的工人和你在一起
You got to build you a
你得为自己打造一个
Union got to make it strong
团结一致让我们团结一致
But if you all stick
但如果你们坚持下去
Together now won't he long
现在就在一起他会不会太久
You'll get shorter hours
你会缩短工作时间
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 ride
为何你要这样做
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 waiting
我们都会等待
Till Judgment Day
直到审判日
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
现在你知道你
Underpaid hut the boss says you ain't
薪水太低老板说你不行
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 he down and out but you ain't beaten
你也许他穷困潦倒可你从未被打败
Pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'
散发传单召集大家开会
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
当然大老板可能
Persuade some poor damn fool
说服一个可怜的傻瓜
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
但你总是可以
Tell a stool though that's a fact
告诉凳子虽然这是事实
He's got a yellow streak
他有一条黄色的条纹
Running down his back
紧追不舍
He doesn't have to stool
他不必大便
He'll always get long
他总是来日方长
On what he takes
无论他付出什么代价
Out of blind men's cups
用盲人的杯子
You got a union now
你现在有了一个联盟
You're sitting pretty
你镇定自若
Put some of the boys
让一些男孩
On the steering committee
在指导委员会
The boss won't listen
老板不听
When one man squawks
当一个人抱怨
But he's got to listen
但他必须侧耳倾听
When the union talks he better
当工会发言时他会更好
He'll be mighty lonely everybady
他会无比孤独每个人
Dicide work out on him
干掉他
Suppose they're working
假设他们在工作
You so hard it's
你好冷酷
Just outrageous
令人发指
They're paying you
他们给你钱
All starvation wages
工资都快撑不下去了
You go to the boss
你去找老板
And the boss would yell
老板会大吼一声
Before I'd 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
他吞云吐雾
Seegar and feeling mighty slick
感觉自己游刃有余
He thinks he's got
他觉得他有
Your union licked
你的联盟完蛋了
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
但是一千个纠察队员
And they all agree
他们都同意
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
现在男孩你来了
To the hardest time
在最艰难的时刻
The boss will try to
老板会努力
Bust your picket line
冲破警戒线
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
Hit you on the head
一拳打在你的头上
Call every one of you a goddamn Red
把你们每个人都叫做Red
Unpatriotic Japanese biees
不爱国的日本人
Bomb throwers even the kids
扔炸弹的人甚至是小孩
But out in Detroit here's
但在底特律
What they found
他们的发现
And out in Frisco here's
在旧金山
What they found
他们的发现
And out in Pittsburgh
在匹兹堡
Here's what they found
这是他们的发现
And down in Bethlehem
在伯利恒
Here's what they found
这是他们的发现
That if you don't let
如果你不让
Red baiting break you up
红色诱惑让你支离破碎
If you don't let
如果你不让
Stool pigeons break you up
凳子鸽子让你崩溃
If you don't let
如果你不让
Vigilantes break you up
义警把你打得落花流水
And if you don't
如果你不爱我
Let race hatred break you up
让种族仇恨将你摧毁
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