《Ballad For Americans》歌词

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

[00:00:19] In seventy-six the sky was red

[00:00:24] Thunder rumbling overhead

[00:00:28] Bad King George couldn't sleep in his bed

[00:00:32] And on that stormy morn Ol' Uncle Sam was born

[00:00:40] Some birthday

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

[00:00:48] And in a Richmond church he sat

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

[00:00:57] America drew breath

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

[00:01:07] 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

[00:01:21] Ev'rybody who was anybody they doubted it

[00:01:26] Nobody had faith

[00:01:28] Nobody Nobody but Washington Tom Paine

[00:01:34] Benjamin Franklin

[00:01:36] Chaim Solomon Crispus Attucks

[00:01:39] Lafayette Nobodies

[00:01:43] The nobodies ran a trea party at Boston

[00:01:46] Betsy Ross

[00:01:47] Organized a sewing circle

[00:01:49] Paul Revere had a horse race

[00:01:51] And a little ragged group believed it

[00:01:56] And some gentlemen and ladies believed it

[00:02:01] And some wise men and some fools

[00:02:03] And I believed it too

[00:02:06] And you know who I am

[00:02:11] No Who are you mister Yeah how come all this

[00:02:15] Well I'll tell you

[00:02:17] No let us tell you

[00:02:20] Mister Tom Jefferson a mighty fine man

[00:02:24] He wrote it down in a mighty fine plan

[00:02:29] And the rest all signed it with a mighty fine hand

[00:02:32] As they crossed thier T's and dotted their I's

[00:02:37] A bran' new country did arise

[00:02:46] And a mighty fine idea

[00:02:48] "Adopted unanimously in Congress July 4 1776

[00:02:53] We hold these truths to be self-evident

[00:02:58] That all men are created equal

[00:03:02] That they are endowed by their

[00:03:05] Creator with certain inalienable rights

[00:03:10] That among these rights are Life

[00:03:13] Yes sir Liberty That's right

[00:03:16] And the pursuit of happiness

[00:03:20] Is that what they said The very words

[00:03:23] That does sound mighty fine

[00:03:27] Building a nation is awful tough

[00:03:31] The people found the going rough

[00:03:35] Some lived in cities some worked the land

[00:03:39] And united they did stand

[00:03:43] To make our country grand

[00:03:49] Still nobody who was anybody believed it

[00:03:54] Everybody who anybody they stayed at home

[00:03:59] But Lewis and Clarke and the pioneers

[00:04:03] Driven by hunger haunted by fears

[00:04:05] The Klondike miners and the forty niners

[00:04:08] Some wanted freedom and some wanted riches

[00:04:11] Some liked to loaf while others dug ditches

[00:04:16] But they believed it And I believed it too

[00:04:20] And you know who I am

[00:04:27] No who are you anyway Mister

[00:04:29] Well I started to tell you

[00:04:46] Let my people go That's the idea

[00:04:52] Old Abe Lincoln was thin and long

[00:04:56] His heart was high and his faith was strong

[00:05:01] But he hated oppression he hated wrong

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

[00:05:15] A man in white skin can never be free

[00:05:19] While his black brother is in

[00:05:22] Slavery

[00:05:23] "And we here highly resolve that

[00:05:26] These dead shall not have died in vain

[00:05:30] And this government of the people

[00:05:33] By the people and for the people

[00:05:37] Shall not perish from the Earth "

[00:05:41] Abraham Lincoln said that on November 19

[00:05:43] 1863 at Gettysburg Pennsylvania

[00:05:45] And he was right I believe that too

[00:05:48] Say we still don't know who you are mister

[00:05:51] Well I started to tell you

[00:05:56] The machine age came with a great big roar

[00:05:59] As America grew in peace and war

[00:06:04] And a million wheels went around and 'round

[00:06:08] The cities reached into the sky

[00:06:10] And dug down deep into the ground

[00:06:14] And some got rich and some got poor

[00:06:17] But the people carried through

[00:06:21] So our country grew

[00:06:30] Still nobody who was anybody believed it

[00:06:37] Everybody who was anybody they doubted it

[00:06:42] And they are doubting still

[00:06:45] And I guess they always will

[00:06:47] But who cares what they say whem I am on my way

[00:06:57] Say will you please tell us who you are

[00:06:59] What's your name Buddy Where you goin'

[00:07:02] Who are you

[00:07:04] Well I'm the everybody who's nobody

[00:07:08] I'm the nobody who's everybody

[00:07:11] What's your racket What do you do for a living

[00:07:14] Well I'm an

[00:07:16] Engineer musician street cleaner carpenter

[00:07:20] Teacher

[00:07:21] How about a farmer Also Office clerk Yes sir

[00:07:26] That's right (Homemaker ) Certainly

[00:07:29] Factory worker You said it (Mail carrier )

[00:07:31] Yes ma'am

[00:07:31] (Hospital worker ) Absotively (Social worker )

[00:07:34] Posolutely

[00:07:35] Truck driver Definitely

[00:07:37] Miner seamstress ditchdigger all of them

[00:07:40] I am the "etceteras" and the "and so forths"

[00:07:45] That do the work

[00:07:46] Now hold on here what are you trying to give us

[00:07:49] Are you an American

[00:07:50] Am I an American

[00:07:52] I'm just an Irish (African) Jewish Italian

[00:07:57] French and English Spanish Russian Chinese

[00:08:00] Polish

[00:08:00] Scotch Hungarian (Jamaican) Swedish Finnish

[00:08:02] (Dominican) Greek and

[00:08:03] Turk and Czech

[00:08:04] And (Native American)

[00:08:07] And that ain't all

[00:08:09] I was baptized Baptist Methodist

[00:08:11] Congregationalist Luthern

[00:08:12] Atheist Roman Catholic (Moslem) Jewish

[00:08:14] Presbyterian Seventh Day

[00:08:16] Adventist

[00:08:17] Mormon Quaker Christian Scientist and lots more

[00:08:21] You sure are something

[00:08:27] Our country's strong our country's young

[00:08:31] And her greatest songs are still unsung

[00:08:36] From her plains and mountains we have sprung

[00:08:40] To keep the faith with those who went before

[00:08:47] We nobodies who are anybody belive it

[00:08:53] We anybodies who are everybody have no doubts

[00:08:58] Out of the cheating out of the shouting

[00:09:16] It will come again

[00:09:28] Strong as the people who made it

[00:09:32] For I have always believed it

[00:09:36] And I believe it now

[00:09:41] And now you know who I am

[00:09:47] Who are you

[00:09:48] America America