《Mark Twain》歌词

[00:00:00] Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte (哈里·贝拉方特)/Orchestra Hugo Winterhalter

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[00:00:01] Lyrics by：Harry Belafonte

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[00:00:03] Composed by：Harry Belafonte

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[00:00:05] Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats

[00:00:09] 许多年前在密西西比河的船上

[00:00:09] They had men called gaugers

[00:00:12] 他们有名叫戈格的人

[00:00:12] And the job of a gauger was to hang off

[00:00:15] 计量员的工作就是保持警惕

[00:00:15] The side of the boat with one hand

[00:00:17] 一只手扶着船舷

[00:00:17] And in the other hand he had a ball of Twine

[00:00:19] 另一只手拿着一团麻绳

[00:00:19] With a hunk a lead on the end of it

[00:00:21] 带着一把枪一路向前

[00:00:21] He'd wield the lead above his head

[00:00:23] 他会把枪口瞄准头顶

[00:00:23] And let it fly into the water

[00:00:25] 让它飞进水里

[00:00:25] Wherever the water marked the twine

[00:00:28] 无论哪里的水标记麻线

[00:00:28] He'd call up to the skipper and say

[00:00:32] 他会给船长打电话说

[00:00:32] Marking on the twine is four fathoms

[00:00:39] 麻线上的标记是四英寻

[00:00:39] 'Cause then and there year after year

[00:00:41] 因为在那之后年复一年

[00:00:41] It was getting pretty monotonous

[00:00:44] 一切变得单调乏味

[00:00:44] Until in the eighteen hundreds a little man

[00:00:46] 直到十九世纪我变成了一个小个子

[00:00:46] Came along and revolutionized the

[00:00:48] 我的出现彻底改变了

[00:00:48] Whole gauging industry

[00:00:50] 整个测量行业

[00:00:50] Instead of saying marking on the twine

[00:00:53] 而不是在绳索上做标记

[00:00:53] He cut it short and said Mark twain

[00:00:57] 他打断我说马克·吐温

[00:00:57] And in between each marking he'd

[00:01:00] 在每一个标记之间

[00:01:00] Fill it in with a little pattern about himself

[00:01:02] 用一个关于他自己的小模式来填补它

[00:01:02] And his every day life

[00:01:05] 他的日常生活

[00:01:05] Well if you'd been living at that time

[00:01:08] 如果你生活在那个时代

[00:01:08] Coming up from a distance on the Mississippi

[00:01:11] 在密西西比河上从远处传来

[00:01:11] It would have sounded like this

[00:01:16] 听起来应该是这样的

[00:01:16] Mark Twain four fathoms off the starboard bow

[00:01:35] 马克·吐温在船头右舷四英寻处

[00:01:35] I got a gal named Cindy-Lou

[00:01:39] 我有个姑娘叫Cindy-Lou

[00:01:39] Feeds me gin and bake beans too

[00:01:43] 给我杜松子酒和豆子

[00:01:43] Mark Twain Mark Twain

[00:01:58] 马克·吐温

[00:01:58] Three fathoms off the starboard bow

[00:02:07] 船头右舷三英寻

[00:02:07] I got a friend his name is Pete

[00:02:11] 我有个朋友他的名字叫Pete

[00:02:11] Sings dirty songs down on Beel street

[00:02:19] 在比尔街上唱着下流的歌

[00:02:19] Mark Twain Mark Twain

[00:02:33] 马克·吐温

[00:02:33] Two fathoms off the starboard bow

[00:02:41] 船头离右舷两英寻

[00:02:41] I've been working the river since ninety two

[00:02:46] 从九十二年开始我就在河边工作

[00:02:46] I get a penny a day and bad liquor too

[00:02:49] 我一天挣一分钱酒也不好喝

[00:02:49] Mark Twain I won't save my money

[00:02:55] 马克·吐温我不会存钱

[00:02:55] Till the day I die

[00:02:57] 直到我死去的那一天

[00:02:57] They gonna bury me all but my good right eye

[00:03:01] 他们会把我全部埋葬除了我的右眼

[00:03:01] Mark twain Mark Twain

[00:03:15] 马克·吐温

[00:03:15] No fathoms off the starboard bow

[00:03:24] 船头右舷已经没有了

[00:03:24] Look out skipper pull it to the side

[00:03:26] 小心点船长把车停到路边

[00:03:26] You gonna bust your bow and split your hide

[00:03:30] 你会拉开你的弓撕裂你的伪装

[00:03:30] Oh great God we done run it down

[00:03:33] 天啊我们已经成功了

[00:03:33] Skipper gonna chase me with a big blood hound

[00:03:36] 船长会带着猎犬来追我

[00:03:36] Mark Twain

[00:03:41] 马克·吐温