《The Ballad of the Hulk(LP Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] The Ballad Of The Hulk (LP Version) - Jerry Jeff Walker (杰里·杰夫·沃克)

[00:00:13] The cycle of life is here

[00:00:14] To see in all of its fine simplicity

[00:00:17] But the way we live it seems to be

[00:00:19] Something very weird to me

[00:00:20] And i cry out

[00:00:25] For pettiness like lady's chatter

[00:00:27] Seems to complicate the matter

[00:00:29] I grit my teeth as my senses chatter

[00:00:31] For nothing much makes me madder

[00:00:33] As i leap out

[00:00:38] For big or little great or small

[00:00:40] It really doesn't matter at all

[00:00:41] The way we shuffle our feet and hem

[00:00:43] And haw

[00:00:44] Cause everybody's afraid they'll fall

[00:00:45] Or else be left out

[00:00:50] But what's right for me or strange to you

[00:00:52] Shouldn't make a damn on what you do

[00:00:54] Cause whether or not you make it through

[00:00:56] I thought that you already knew

[00:00:58] That i'll keep you going on

[00:01:02] And the world war iii and the world series

[00:01:06] Will make the same size headlines in the news

[00:01:24] From all i've seen of politics

[00:01:26] It's just a greasy big money stick

[00:01:28] That's geared to run on tongues

[00:01:30] So slick to make you think this is all there is

[00:01:32] Boy you got a pray

[00:01:36] How they con the little middle man

[00:01:38] Into thinkin he has got a hand

[00:01:41] To play in the future of the promised land

[00:01:43] He owes himself to the destiny of man

[00:01:44] Gets ridiculous

[00:01:49] A cheap gangster hires someone

[00:01:51] To do his dirty work with a tommy gun

[00:01:53] While the president just points at anyone

[00:01:55] And says i your country needs some killing done

[00:01:57] Go do it now boy

[00:02:01] The war itself is bad enough

[00:02:03] It can break you down no matter how tough

[00:02:06] But the tragedy of all the hoopla stuff

[00:02:08] It makes you think you can't do enough

[00:02:09] For the shiny symbols

[00:02:14] And the other countries they feel the same as we

[00:02:18] And regret that i have but one country to

[00:02:21] Give for my life

[00:02:35] The preacher stands in his holy shroud sayin

[00:02:37] God forgives you if you do it now

[00:02:39] You come back when the chips are down

[00:02:42] You'll find they've all gone underground

[00:02:43] To pray for you

[00:02:48] A homosexual disturbed priest feels that

[00:02:50] He can preach to me

[00:02:52] The right way to go and raise a family

[00:02:54] And i'm forced to look at him and say

[00:02:56] You're guessin

[00:03:00] The population is getting higher

[00:03:03] The poverty poor the pregnant tired

[00:03:05] Are waiting on the pope to be inspired

[00:03:07] For some new contraceptive attire

[00:03:09] Saying it's cool now

[00:03:13] It's a ghost behind a one way mirror

[00:03:15] Listening tip toed at the door to hear

[00:03:17] If someone outside won't speak the year

[00:03:19] Then they'll slip a note out how they feel

[00:03:21] About pierced ear lobes

[00:03:25] But the rules made now

[00:03:27] For the changing cows

[00:03:30] Are a little late

[00:03:32] And will be out of date by tomorrow

[00:03:47] Her mother placed on virginity

[00:03:49] Saying it was the holy place to be

[00:03:51] For the things boys had were evilry

[00:03:53] When it came time for matrimony

[00:03:55] She froze and died there

[00:04:00] Her sister at fourteen very well known

[00:04:02] Thought all the kicks came lying there prone

[00:04:04] But a fundamental fact not spoken at home

[00:04:06] Left her feeling like a chewed on bone

[00:04:08] And why she wondered

[00:04:12] One chick who dug moving

[00:04:14] About very liberal minded and often

[00:04:15] Spoke out

[00:04:16] How she was cool and understood

[00:04:17] No doubt with

[00:04:18] The blankets up and the lights turned out

[00:04:21] And you're condescending

[00:04:25] A couple together for five or six years

[00:04:27] A marriage license they'd never been near

[00:04:29] But social pressure and loss of job fear

[00:04:31] Got them married and divorced in half

[00:04:32] A year

[00:04:33] They couldn't cut it

[00:04:37] It's all talked about

[00:04:39] But still it's lived around

[00:04:41] And what is right for me

[00:04:43] Could be perversity in any state law book

[00:04:58] I'm told a minstrel at one time

[00:05:01] As allowed to sing and make his rhymes

[00:05:03] To comment on the news of the times

[00:05:05] And say directly what's in people's minds

[00:05:06] And he made tips for it

[00:05:11] But today try saying on some street curb

[00:05:13] Singin the news in everyday words

[00:05:15] The people pass by the laughin is heard

[00:05:17] Or else they hit you where it hurts

[00:05:19] They keep their ears closed

[00:05:23] One man said boy i dig your stuff

[00:05:25] I want you to come play in my club

[00:05:27] I'll put your name in lights up above

[00:05:29] But just remember i got a club to run

[00:05:31] So don't be too strong

[00:05:36] It ain't your writers who sell out

[00:05:38] It's the damn censors who turn about

[00:05:40] My life learned adjectives and vowels

[00:05:42] And say that my mouth is much too foul

[00:05:44] To good speak to you

[00:05:48] But try to hit a nail and if the hammer fails

[00:05:52] Then the words you use to describe

[00:05:55] That bruise is basic language

[00:06:10] I hoboed around and sang the songs

[00:06:11] That everybody knew and hummed along

[00:06:13] To amuse myself i wrote some songs talkin

[00:06:16] About what's right or wrong

[00:06:17] And i'm a little different

[00:06:22] A record company you know well

[00:06:24] Wanted to know

[00:06:25] If my song would sell

[00:06:26] I said yes i like it very well

[00:06:28] If you don't sir you can go to help

[00:06:30] Somebody else change

[00:06:34] So i kept playin and bummin around singin

[00:06:37] To the ones who dug my sound

[00:06:38] Some guys ask won't you play my town

[00:06:40] I ask fair bread they put me down

[00:06:42] Their caddie's mortgaged

[00:06:46] Made one deal like it's you and me

[00:06:48] This guy said he could be of some use to me

[00:06:50] But when i found he's puttin screws to me

[00:06:52] I made it back to the street

[00:06:54] Singin new folk songs

[00:06:58] If there's time enough

[00:07:00] The hill ain't too rough

[00:07:02] What i wrote today

[00:07:05] I might someday play

[00:07:07] And make tips for it

[00:07:20] Oh next next issue of the hulk