Talking Columbia Blues - Woody Guthrie (伍迪·格思里)

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Well down along the river just asittin' on a rock

沿着河边静静地坐在石头上

I'm alookin' at the boats in the Bonneville lock

我凝视着邦纳维尔船闸里的船只

Gate swings open the boat sails in

大门打开船开进来

Toot that whistle she's gone again

吹响口哨她又一次消失不见

Gasoline goin' up wheat comin' down

汽油越来越多小麦越来越多

Well I filled up my hat brim

我把帽檐填满

Drunk a little taste

有点醉醺醺的感觉

Thought about a river just agoin' to waste

我想到一条快要被浪费的河流

Thought about the dust

想着那些尘埃

An' thought about the sand

一想到沙滩

Thought about the people

想着那些

An' thought about the land

一想到这片土地

Folks runnin' round all over creation

人们在世间四处奔波

Lookin' for some kind of little place

寻找一个温暖的地方

Well I pulled out my pencil

我掏出我的铅笔

Scribbled this song

写下这首歌

Figured all them salmon just

我想那些鲑鱼

Couldn't be wrong

不会错的

Them salmon fish is mighty shrewd

鲑鱼真的很狡猾

They got senators and politicians too

他们有参议员和政客

Just about like the president

就像总统一样

They run every four years

他们四年一次

You just watch this river though pretty soon

你很快就会看到这条河

Everybody's gonna be changin' their tune

每个人都会改变自己的态度

The big Grand Coulee and the Bonneville dams

大古力和邦纳维尔大坝

Run a thousand factories for uncle sam

为山姆大叔经营一千家工厂

And everybody else in the world turnin' out

世界上所有人都离我而去

Everything from fertilizers to sewing machines

从化肥到缝纫机应有尽有

And atomic bedrooms and plastic

原子般的卧室塑料材质的

Everything's gonna be plastic

一切都会变得不堪一击

Uncle sam need houses and stuff to eat

山姆大叔需要房子和食物

Uncle sam needs wool and uncle sam needs wheat

山姆大叔需要羊毛山姆大叔要小麦

Uncle sam needs water and power dams

山姆大叔需要水和动力大坝

Uncle sam needs people and the people need land

山姆大叔需要人民人民需要土地

'Course I don't like dictators none myself

当然我不喜欢独裁者我自己也不喜欢

But then I think the whole country

但后来我觉得全国

Had ought to be run by electricity

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