《The Pila Song》歌词

[00:00:00] The Pila Song - Max Stalling

[00:00:13] The wind was hot and the sun was hard

[00:00:15] I was beat and my mare was tired

[00:00:17] And the fence line I was riding stretched forever

[00:00:22] My mind drifted off and back

[00:00:24] To Carmella and her heart of black

[00:00:26] And the things that she'd said to me yesterday

[00:00:30] So when the boss sent me out checking fences

[00:00:32] I was glad cause I knew that it meant

[00:00:35] That I could spend some time out all alone

[00:00:43] I wiped the sweat that stung my eyes

[00:00:46] Looked up and I realized

[00:00:47] That I was coming up on the south windmill

[00:00:52] The concrete tank stood there beside

[00:00:54] The water trough that it supplied

[00:00:56] When the trough was full the mill could keep on

[00:00:58] Pumping and pumping and pumping

[00:01:03] So we drank deep from the shallow trough

[00:01:04] And wetting my hair gave me the thought

[00:01:06] That a swim in that big tank might cool me down

[00:01:24] So I shucked my duds and hung 'em on the fence

[00:01:27] Climbed the wires to reach the rim

[00:01:29] Pulled myself on up and jumped right in

[00:01:33] The water was cool down underneath

[00:01:35] But deeper than I thought it'd be

[00:01:37] There was no ladder and the walls were slick with moss

[00:01:41] Sure enough I got cooled down

[00:01:44] When I found I had no way out

[00:01:45] And the thought of a rat in a feed bin chilled my blood

[00:01:54] Well at first I laughed at the fix I was in

[00:01:57] Then my troubles all sank in

[00:01:58] Without some help I was there to stay

[00:02:03] I screamed and clawed to no avail

[00:02:04] Till dignity and voice had failed

[00:02:07] I wore my fingers down on those damned walls

[00:02:11] I marked the time with the windmill's shade

[00:02:13] Passing cross my mossy grave

[00:02:16] And the cows coming to water twice a day

[00:02:41] I always figured lightning strike

[00:02:43] Or rattlesnake or barroom fight

[00:02:46] Would do me in not some Mexican rose

[00:02:50] The fact is I was hot and dumb

[00:02:52] Struck stupid by the sun and love

[00:02:54] So on the one hand I guess she'd played her part

[00:02:59] Through all that time I cussed her lots

[00:03:01] But I cussed myself the most because

[00:03:03] I had not looked before I leapt

[00:03:07] Now overhead an eagle soars

[00:03:09] And I smell rain coming from the north

[00:03:12] I wonder if she'll even shed one tear

[00:03:17] Just one tear over me

[00:03:26] Just one tear over me