《Ballad for Americans》歌词

[00:00:00] Ballad for Americans - Paul Robeson (罗伯逊)

[00:00:10] Composer：Robinson/Latouche

[00:00:20] In seventy six the sky was red

[00:00:24] Thunder rumbling overhead

[00:00:29] Bad King George couldn't sleep in his bed

[00:00:33] And on that stormy morn

[00:00:37] Ol' Uncle Sam was born

[00:00:41] Some birthday

[00:00:45] Ol' Sam put on a three cornered hat

[00:00:49] And in a Richmond church he sat

[00:00:53] And Patrick Henry told him that while America drew breath

[00:01:01] It was Liberty or death

[00:01:08] What kind of hat is a three cornered hat

[00:01:13] Did they all believe in liberty in those days

[00:01:16] Nobody who was anybody believed it

[00:01:22] Ev'rybody who was anybody they doubted it

[00:01:27] Nobody had faith

[00:01:29] Nobody nobody but

[00:01:31] Washington

[00:01:33] Tom Paine

[00:01:35] Benjamin Franklin

[00:01:36] Chaim Solomon

[00:01:38] Crispus Attucks

[00:01:40] Lafayette

[00:01:41] Nobodies

[00:01:44] The nobodies ran a tea party at Boston

[00:01:47] Betsy Ross organized a sewing circle

[00:01:50] Yeah Paul Revere had a horse race

[00:01:52] And a little ragged group believed it

[00:01:57] And some gentlemen and ladies believed it

[00:02:02] And some wise men and some fools and I believed it too

[00:02:07] And you know who I am

[00:02:12] No

[00:02:13] Who are you mister

[00:02:14] Yeah how come all this

[00:02:16] Well I'll tell you

[00:02:18] Now let me

[00:02:18] No let us tell you

[00:02:21] Then Mister Tom Jefferson a mighty fine man

[00:02:26] He wrote it down in a mighty fine plan

[00:02:30] And the rest all signed it with a mighty fine hand

[00:02:33] As they crossed their T's and dotted their I's

[00:02:38] A bran' new country did arise

[00:02:42] And and and and a mighty fine idea

[00:02:49] Adopted unanimously in Congress July 4 1776

[00:02:54] We hold these truths to be self evident

[00:02:59] That all men are created equal

[00:03:03] That they are endowed by their creator

[00:03:07] With certain inalienable rights

[00:03:11] That among these rights are life

[00:03:14] Yes Sir

[00:03:15] Liberty

[00:03:16] That's right

[00:03:17] And the pursuit of happiness

[00:03:21] Is that what they said

[00:03:23] The very words

[00:03:24] That sure does sound mighty fine

[00:03:28] Building a nation is awful tough

[00:03:32] The people found the going rough

[00:03:36] And thirteen states weren't large enough

[00:03:40] So they started to expand

[00:03:44] Into the western lands

[00:03:50] Still nobody who was anybody believed it

[00:03:56] Everybody who anybody they stayed at home

[00:04:00] But Lewis and Clarke and the pioneers

[00:04:04] Driven by hunger haunted by fears

[00:04:07] The Klondike miners and the forty niners

[00:04:09] Some wanted freedom and some wanted riches

[00:04:12] Some liked to loaf while others dug ditches

[00:04:17] But they believed it

[00:04:20] And I believed it too

[00:04:22] And you know who I am

[00:04:29] No who are you Mister anyway

[00:04:31] Well I started to tell you

[00:04:38] Yes Mister tell us who you are

[00:04:40] You see I represent the whole

[00:04:47] That's it

[00:04:48] Let my people go

[00:04:52] That's the idea

[00:04:54] Old Abe Lincoln was thin and long

[00:04:58] His heart was high and his faith was strong

[00:05:03] But he hated oppression he hated wrong

[00:05:07] And he went down to his grave to free the slave

[00:05:17] A man in white skin can never be free

[00:05:20] While his black brother is in slavery

[00:05:25] And we here highly resolve that these dead

[00:05:28] Shall not have died in vain

[00:05:32] And this government of the people

[00:05:35] By the people and for the people

[00:05:39] Shall not perish from the earth

[00:05:42] Abraham Lincoln said that on November 19 1863 at Gettysburg Pennsylvania

[00:05:47] And he was right I believe that too

[00:05:50] Say Mister we still don't know who you are

[00:05:52] I've been trying to tell you you see

[00:05:56] There it is

[00:05:57] The machine age came with a great big roar

[00:06:01] As America grew in peace and war

[00:06:06] And a million wheels went around and 'round

[00:06:10] The cities reached into the sky

[00:06:12] And dug down deep into the ground

[00:06:16] And some got rich and some got poor

[00:06:19] But the people carried through so our country grew

[00:06:32] Still nobody who was anybody believed it

[00:06:39] Everybody who was anybody they doubted it

[00:06:44] And they are doubting still

[00:06:47] And I guess they always will

[00:06:50] But who cares what they say when I am on my way

[00:06:59] Say will you please tell us who you are

[00:07:01] What's your name buddy

[00:07:03] Where you goin'

[00:07:04] Who are you

[00:07:06] Well I'm everybody who's nobody

[00:07:10] I'm the nobody who's everybody

[00:07:13] What's your racket

[00:07:14] What do you do for a living

[00:07:16] Well I'm an

[00:07:18] Engineer

[00:07:20] Musician

[00:07:21] Street cleaner carpenter teacher

[00:07:24] How about a farmer

[00:07:25] Also

[00:07:26] Office clerk

[00:07:27] Yes Ma'am

[00:07:28] Mechanic

[00:07:28] That's right

[00:07:29] Housewife

[00:07:30] Certainly

[00:07:31] Factory worker

[00:07:32] You said it

[00:07:33] Officer uhu

[00:07:34] You specialist

[00:07:35] Absolutely

[00:07:36] Bartender

[00:07:37] Absolutely

[00:07:37] Truck driver

[00:07:38] Definitely

[00:07:39] Miner seamstress ditchdigger all of them

[00:07:43] I am the etceteras

[00:07:46] And the and so forths that do the work

[00:07:49] Now hold on here

[00:07:50] What are you trying to give us

[00:07:52] Are you an American

[00:07:53] Am I an American

[00:07:54] I'm just an Irish Negro Jewish Italian

[00:08:00] French and English Spanish Russian Chinese Polish

[00:08:03] Scotch Hungarian Litvak Swedish Finnish Canadian

[00:08:06] Greek and Turk and Czech

[00:08:07] And double check American

[00:08:10] And that ain't all

[00:08:12] I was baptized Baptist Methodist Congregationalist Luthern

[00:08:15] Atheist Roman Catholic Moslem Jewish Presbyterian Seventh Day

[00:08:19] Adventist

[00:08:19] Mormon Quaker Christian Scientist and lots more

[00:08:23] You sure are something

[00:08:29] Our country's strong our country's young

[00:08:34] And the greatest songs are still unsung

[00:08:38] From her plains and mountains we have sprung

[00:08:42] To keep the faith with those who went before

[00:08:50] We nobodies who are anybody believe it

[00:08:55] We anybodies who are everybody have no doubts

[00:09:01] Out of the cheating out of the shouting

[00:09:05] Out of the murders and lynching

[00:09:08] Out of the windbags the patriotic spouting

[00:09:12] Out of uncertainty and doubting

[00:09:15] Out of the carpetbag and the brass spittoon

[00:09:18] It will come again

[00:09:21] Our marching song will come again

[00:09:25] Simple as a hit tune

[00:09:27] Deep as our valleys

[00:09:29] High as our mountains

[00:09:31] Strong as the people who made it

[00:09:35] For I have always believed it

[00:09:39] And I believe it now

[00:09:44] And you know who I am

[00:09:50] Who are you

[00:09:51] America

[00:10:02] Aah