《East Texas Red》歌词

[00:00:00] East Texas Red - Arlo Guthrie (阿洛·古利)

[00:00:02] Written by：Woody Guthrie

[00:00:08] Down in the scrub oak timber of the southeast Texas gulf

[00:00:16] There used to ride a brakeman and a brakeman double tough

[00:00:25] He worked the town of Kilgore and Longview nine miles down

[00:00:34] Us trav'lers called him east Texas red the meanest bull around

[00:00:42] I rode by night and by broad daylight in wind and snow and sun

[00:00:51] I always seen little east Texas red sporting his smooth running gun

[00:01:00] The tale got switched down the stems and main and everybody said

[00:01:08] The meanest man on the shiny rails was little east Texas red

[00:01:17] It was early in the morning and along towards nine or ten

[00:01:25] A couple of boys on the hunt of a job stood in the Blizzardy wind

[00:01:34] Hungry and cold they knocked on the doors of the working folks around

[00:01:43] For a piece of meat and a spud or two to boil a stew around

[00:01:52] Red he come down the cinder dump and he flagged the number two

[00:02:00] He kicked their bucket over a bush and he dumped out all their stew

[00:02:09] A traveler said mister east Texas red you better get everything fixed

[00:02:17] 'Cause you're gonna ride your little train just one year from today

[00:02:26] Red he laughed as he clumb the bank and swung aside of a wheeler

[00:02:35] The boys caught a tanker to Seminole and west to Amarillo

[00:02:43] They struck them a job of oil field work and followed a pipe line down

[00:02:52] It took them lots of places till the year had rolled around

[00:03:01] On one cold and Wintery day they hooked them a gulf bound train

[00:03:09] They shivered and shook with dough in their clothes to see Kilgore again

[00:03:18] Over hills of sand and hard froze roads where the cotton wagons roll

[00:03:27] On past the town of Kilgore and on to old Longview

[00:03:35] With their warm suits of clothes and overcoats they walk into a store

[00:03:44] They pay the man for some meat and stuff to fix a stew once more

[00:03:52] The ties they walk back past the yards till

[00:03:57] They come to the same old spot

[00:04:01] Where east Texas red just a year ago had dumped their last stew pot

[00:04:10] The smoke of their fire went higher and higher a man come down the line

[00:04:18] He ducked his head in the Blizzardy wind and waved old number nine

[00:04:27] He walked off down the cinder dump till he come to the same old spot

[00:04:36] And there was the same three men again around that same little pot

[00:04:44] Red went to his knees and he hollered

[00:04:48] Please don't pull that trigger on me

[00:04:53] I did not get my business fixed but he did not get his say

[00:05:01] A gun wheeled out of an overcoat and it played the old one two

[00:05:10] And red was dead when the other two men set down to eat their stew