《The Last Public Hanging In West Virginia》歌词

[00:00:00] The Last Public Hanging in West Virginia - Flatt & Scruggs

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[00:00:01] Rock of ages cleft for me

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[00:00:10] Now that could be the voice of

[00:00:11] 现在这可能是

[00:00:11] John F Morgan in the Ripley jailhouse singin' hymns

[00:00:17] 约翰F摩根在里普利监狱里唱着圣歌

[00:00:17] Well ol' Johnny might just be singin' hymn this mornin'

[00:00:20] 今天早上Johnny可能会唱起圣歌

[00:00:20] Cause this is gonna be a hangin' day for him

[00:00:26] 因为今天对他来说是个折磨

[00:00:26] Now people say that Johnny was a bad man and

[00:00:32] 现在人们说Johnny是个坏人

[00:00:32] That he had a aim for bein' mean

[00:00:36] 他故意做个卑鄙小人

[00:00:36] He took a hatchet one cold weary morning

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[00:00:41] He killed two children and the widow Green

[00:00:46] 他杀了两个孩子还有寡妇Green

[00:00:46] Five thousand people gathered there in Ripley invited by the sheriff Jay O Sean

[00:00:57] 警长JayOSean邀请了五千人聚集在Ripley

[00:00:57] Havin' fun and drinking moonshine liquor and listenin' to ol' Johnny singin' hymn

[00:01:06] 寻欢作乐喝着私酿烈酒听着Johnny唱着圣歌

[00:01:06] The day dawned cold in

[00:01:08] 黎明时分寒冷刺骨

[00:01:08] Ripley West Virginia the scaffold stood in silence in a field

[00:01:16] 雷普利西弗吉尼亚断头台静静地伫立在旷野中

[00:01:16] Johnny kept on singin' in the jailhouse waiting there to eat his final meal

[00:01:26] Johnny在监狱里一直唱歌等着吃他最后一顿饭

[00:01:26] Then rumor started flying through the gathering

[00:01:31] 然后谣言在聚会上四处传播

[00:01:31] That John F Morgan might get his reprieve

[00:01:36] 约翰·F·摩根可能会得到缓刑

[00:01:36] The people started yelling toward the sheriff

[00:01:41] 人们开始冲着警长大喊大叫

[00:01:41] Afraid they'd miss for all they come to see

[00:01:46] 害怕他们会错过眼前的一切

[00:01:46] But Jay O Sean the sheriff of Jackson County

[00:01:51] 但是JayOSean是杰克逊县的警长

[00:01:51] Afraid that such a thing could have been done

[00:01:56] 害怕这种事情会发生

[00:01:56] Said I said there was gonna be a hangin' and

[00:02:01] 我说过会有一场腥风血雨

[00:02:01] I still mean it there's a gonna be one

[00:02:05] 我依然是说真的总会有那么一天

[00:02:05] They led John Morgan from the Ripley jailhouse

[00:02:10] 他们把约翰·摩根带出了里普利监狱

[00:02:10] And he rode through the happy laughin' crowd

[00:02:15] 他穿过欢声笑语的人群

[00:02:15] But when John Morgan stepped upon the scaffold

[00:02:20] 但当约翰·摩根走上断头台时

[00:02:20] They grew quiet when he tip his hat and bowed

[00:02:25] 当他脱帽鞠躬时他们都沉默了

[00:02:25] They listened to the preacher say the last words

[00:02:30] 他们听着牧师的临终遗言

[00:02:30] They fixed the noose and tied John Morgan's hand

[00:02:35] 他们固定了套索绑住了约翰·摩根的手

[00:02:35] The signal came and someone sprang the dead's trap

[00:02:40] 信号来了有人启动了死者的陷阱

[00:02:40] And sent John Morgan to another land

[00:02:45] 把约翰·摩根送去了另一个世界

[00:02:45] The last public hanging in

[00:02:48] 最后一个坚持下去的人

[00:02:48] Old West Virginia a true story written in this song

[00:02:54] 古老的西弗吉尼亚一个真实的故事写在这首歌里

[00:02:54] On the sixteen of December in fifteen ninety seven

[00:02:59] 在1597年的12月16日

[00:02:59] John F Morgan paid the price of doing wrong

[00:03:04] 约翰F摩根为做错事付出了代价