Buffalo Skinners - Woody Guthrie (伍迪·格思里)
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Come all you old time cowboys
来吧你们这些过气的牛仔
And listen to my song
听听我的歌
Please do not grow weary
请不要厌倦
I'll not detain you long
我不会耽搁你太久
Concerning some wild cowboys
有些放纵不羁的牛仔
Who did agree to go
谁同意离开
Spend the summer pleasant
度过愉快的夏天
On the trail of the Buffalo
跟随着水牛的脚步
I found myself in Griffin
我发现我在Griffin
In the spring of '83
在83年的春天
When a well known famous drover
一位声名远扬的牛仔
Came walking up to me
向我走来
Said
说
\"How do you do young fellow
你好吗年轻人
Well how would you like to go
你想怎么走
And spend the summer pleasant
度过愉快的夏天
On the trail of the Buffalo \"
追寻着水牛的踪迹
Well I being out of work right then
我现在失业了
To the drover I did say
我对牧牛人说过
\"Going out on the Buffalo Road
走在布法罗大道上
Depends on the pay
要看工资
If you will pay good wages
如果你愿意给我丰厚的报酬
And transportation to and fro
来回穿梭
I think I might go with you
我想我可能会和你一起去
On the hunt of the Buffalo \"
猎杀一头水牛
\"Of course I'll pay good wages
当然我会给你丰厚的报酬
And transportation too
还有交通工具
If you will agree to work for me
如果你愿意为我工作
Until the season's through \"
直到这个季节结束
But if you do get homesick
但如果你想家了
And try to run away
试图逃跑
You will starve to death
你会饿死的
Out on the trail and also
踏上旅途
Lose your pay \"
失去你的薪水
Well with all his flattering talking
他说了那么多甜言蜜语
He signed up quite a train
他签了一辆好车
Some 10 or 12 in number
大概有十到十二个
Some able bodied men
一些身强力壮的人
The trip it was a pleasant one
这是一次愉快的旅行
As we hit the westward road
当我们踏上西行之路
Until we crossed old Boggy Creek
直到我们穿过了BoggyCreek
In old New Mexico
在新墨西哥州
There our pleasures ended
我们的欢乐就此结束
And our troubles began
我们的麻烦接踵而至
A lightening storm hit us
一场闪电风暴袭来
And made the cattle run
让牛群奔跑
Got all full of stickers
到处都是贴纸
From the cactus that did not grow
来自没有长大的仙人掌
And the outlaws watching
亡命之徒虎视眈眈
To pick us off in the
让我们在
Hills of Mexico
墨西哥山
Well our working season ended
我们的工作季节结束了
And the drover would not pay
牧牛人不肯付钱
If you had not drunk too much
如果你没有喝太多酒
You are all in debt to me
你们都欠我一份情
But the cowboys never had heard
可这些牛仔从未听说
Such a thing as a bankrupt law
破产法这种东西
So we left that drover's
所以我们离开了那个牛仔裤店
Bones to bleach
白骨
On the Plains of the Buffalo
在布法罗的平原上
