State of Arkansas歌词-The Weavers

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State of Arkansas歌词完整版

State of Arkansas - The Weavers

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Written By：The Weavers

My name is Charlie Brennan from Charleston I come

我的名字是CharlieBrennan我来自Charleston

I've traveled this wide world over some ups and downs I've had

我走过这大千世界经历过风风雨雨

I've traveled this wide world over some ups and downs I've saw

我走过这大千世界经历过风风雨雨

But I never really knew what misery was till I hit old Arkansas

但我从来不知道什么是痛苦直到我来到阿肯色州

Got off the train in Little rock in the middle of winter

隆冬时节在小石城下了火车

Nobody there to extend to me his paw

没有人向我伸出他的爪子

Or bid me welcome to this State of Arkansas

欢迎我来到阿肯色州

And it was cold

天气很冷

I dodged behind the depot to dodge that blizzard wind

我躲在仓库后面躲避暴风雪

I met a walking skeleton he said his name was Thomas Quinn

我遇到了一具行尸走肉他说他叫ThomasQuinn

Well his hair hung down in rat-tails on his lean and lantern jaw

He invited me to his hotel he said it was the best in Arkansas

他邀请我去他的酒店他说那是阿肯色州最好的酒店

I followed my conductor to his respective place

我跟着我的指挥员来到他各自的地方

Where pity and starvation were to be seen on every face

每个人的脸上都流露出怜悯和饥饿

Well his bread it was corn dodger and his meat I could not chaw

他的面包是玉米道奇和他的肉我不能嚼

But he charged me a half a dollar in the State of Arkansas

但他在阿肯色州收了我半美元

And I went out and got me a job on a farm farming

我出去找了一份农活

But I didn't care for the work or the farmer

可我不在乎工作和农夫

Or his wife and none of his children

还有他的妻子和孩子

So I went up to him one day and I said

有一天我找到他对他说

Mister I'm gonna quit this job and you can just pay me off right now

先生我要辞掉这份工作你可以马上给我钱

He says Okay son if that's the way you feel about it

他说好吧孩子如果这就是你的感受

And he took me out in the barn and he handed me a mink skin

他带我去谷仓给我一张貂皮大衣

I said I don't want this thing I want my money

我说我不想要这玩意儿我想要我的钱

For the work I've done

感谢我所做的一切

He said Son you may not know it but mink's skin is

他说孩子你可能不知道但貂皮大衣的皮肤

What we're using for currency down here now

我们用什么来换取货币

So I took it when into town hunted up a place

所以我带着枪进城找了个地方

Put my mink skin up on the counter and turned

把我的貂皮大衣放在柜台上

If the bartender didn't toss me a pint

如果酒保没给我倒一杯酒

And he picked up my mink skin blowed the hair back on it

他拿起我的貂皮大衣把我的头发吹了起来

Put it under the counter fetched me out fourteen rabbit skins and

放在柜台下面给我拿了十四张兔皮

Three possum hives for change

三个负鼠巢穴等待改变

I'm going to the Indian territory and live outside the law

我要去印第安人的地盘过着违法的生活

I'll bid farewell to the kin bricks in the State of Arkansas

我会告别阿肯色州的亲戚朋友

If you ever see me back again I'll give to you my paw

如果你看到我回来我会把我的爪子给你

But it'll be though a telescope from Hell to Arkansas

但它会通过望远镜从地狱到阿肯色州