《The Ballad of Booth》歌词

[00:00:03] The Ballad of Booth - Victor Garber

[00:00:26] Someone tell the story

[00:00:29] Someone sing the song

[00:00:32] Every now and then

[00:00:33] The country

[00:00:35] Goes a little wrong

[00:00:39] Every now and then

[00:00:40] A madman's

[00:00:43] Bound to come along

[00:00:47] Doesn't stop the story

[00:00:50] Story's pretty strong

[00:00:54] Doesn't change the song

[00:01:02] Johnny booth was a handsome devil

[00:01:04] Got up in his rings and fancy silks

[00:01:08] Had him a temper but kept it level

[00:01:11] Everybody called him wilkes

[00:01:15] Why did you do it johnny

[00:01:18] Nobody agrees

[00:01:20] You who had everything

[00:01:21] What made you bring

[00:01:23] A nation to its knees

[00:01:26] Some say it was your voice had gone

[00:01:29] Some say it was booze

[00:01:31] Some say you killed a coutry john

[00:01:33] Because of bad reviews

[00:01:38] Johnny lived with a grace and glitter

[00:01:41] Kind of like the lives he lived on stage

[00:01:44] Died in a barn in pain and bitter

[00:01:47] Twenty seven years of age

[00:01:51] Why did you do it johnny

[00:01:53] Throw it all away

[00:01:56] Why did you do it boy

[00:01:57] Not just destroy

[00:01:58] The pride and joy

[00:02:00] Of illinois

[00:02:02] But all the u s a

[00:02:05] Your brother made you jealous john

[00:02:08] You couldn't fill his shoes

[00:02:11] Was that the reason tell us john

[00:02:13] Along with bad reviews

[00:02:27] Damn

[00:02:28] They're coming they'll be here any minute

[00:02:30] I need your help

[00:02:31] I've got to write this and i can't hold the pen

[00:02:33] Johnny they've found us

[00:02:34] We've got to get out of here

[00:02:35] Not till i finish this

[00:02:36] Johnny

[00:02:36] No

[00:02:38] Have you seen these papers

[00:02:39] Do you know what they're calling me

[00:02:40] A common cutthroat a hired assassin

[00:02:42] This one says i'm mad

[00:02:43] We must have been mad to think

[00:02:45] That we could kill the president and get away with it

[00:02:46] We did get away with it

[00:02:48] He was a bloody tyrant and we brought him down

[00:02:51] And i will not have history think i did it for a bag of gold

[00:02:53] Or in some kind of rabid fit

[00:02:55] Johnny we have to go

[00:02:56] No i have to make my case

[00:02:58] And i need you to take it down

[00:03:00] We don't have time

[00:03:01] Take it down

[00:03:04] An indictment

[00:03:05] Of the former president of the united states

[00:03:06] Abraham lincoln who is herein charged

[00:03:09] With the following high crimes and misdemeanors

[00:03:11] They say you're ship was sinking john

[00:03:15] One

[00:03:16] That you did ruthlessly provoke a war between the states

[00:03:18] Which cost some six hundred thousand

[00:03:20] Of my countrymen their lives two

[00:03:22] You'd started missing cues

[00:03:26] Two

[00:03:27] That you did silence your critics in the north

[00:03:29] By hurling them into prison without benefit of charge or trial three

[00:03:33] They say it wasn't lincoln john

[00:03:35] Shut up three

[00:03:35] You'd merely had a slew of bad

[00:03:37] Reviews

[00:03:38] I said shut up

[00:03:40] Booth i have fifty soldiers out here booth

[00:03:44] Give yourselves up or we'll set fire to the barn

[00:03:47] Don't shoot i'm coming out

[00:03:49] No

[00:03:53] I have given my life for one act you understand

[00:03:57] Do not let history rob me of its meaning

[00:04:01] Pass on the truth you're the only one wo can

[00:04:05] Please

[00:04:08] He said

[00:04:09] Damn you lincoln

[00:04:10] You had your way

[00:04:13] Tell'em boy

[00:04:13] With blood you drew out

[00:04:16] Of blue and gray

[00:04:17] Tell it all

[00:04:18] Tell'em till they listen

[00:04:20] He said

[00:04:21] Damn you lincoln

[00:04:22] And damn the day

[00:04:24] You threw the u out

[00:04:26] Of u s a

[00:04:30] He said

[00:04:31] Hunt me down smear my name

[00:04:33] Say i did it for the fame

[00:04:36] What i did was kill the man who killed my country

[00:04:41] Now the southland will mend

[00:04:44] Now this bloody war can end

[00:04:47] Because someone slew th tyrant

[00:04:49] Just as brutus slew the tyrant

[00:04:53] He said

[00:04:53] Damn you lincoln

[00:04:55] You righteous whore

[00:04:56] Tell'em

[00:04:57] Tell'em what he did

[00:04:58] You turned your spite into civil war

[00:05:01] Tell'em

[00:05:01] Tell'em the truth

[00:05:02] And more

[00:05:03] Tell'em boy

[00:05:03] Tell them how it happened

[00:05:05] How the end doesn't mean that it's over

[00:05:08] How surrender is not the end

[00:05:13] Tell them

[00:05:17] Hoe the country is not what it was

[00:05:21] Where there's blood in the clover

[00:05:26] How the nation can never again

[00:05:31] Be the hope that it was

[00:05:36] How the bruises may never be healed

[00:05:40] How the wounds are forever

[00:05:45] How the how we gave up the field

[00:05:48] But we still wouldn't yield

[00:05:50] How the union can never recover

[00:05:53] From that vulgar

[00:05:56] High and mighty

[00:05:57] Niggerlover

[00:05:58] Never

[00:06:01] Never never never

[00:06:08] No the country is not what it was

[00:06:33] Damn my soul if you must

[00:06:37] Let my body turn to dust

[00:06:40] Let it mingle with the ashes of the country

[00:06:46] Let them curse me to hell

[00:06:50] Leave it to history to tell

[00:06:53] What i did i did well

[00:06:56] And i did it for my country

[00:07:00] Let them cry dirty traitor

[00:07:03] They will understand it later

[00:07:10] The country is not what it was

[00:07:26] Johnny booth was a headstrong fellow

[00:07:29] Even he believed the things he said

[00:07:32] Some called him noble some said yellow

[00:07:35] What he was was off his head

[00:07:39] How could you do it johnny

[00:07:41] Calling it a cause

[00:07:43] You left a legacy

[00:07:45] Of butchery

[00:07:45] And treason we

[00:07:47] Took eagerly

[00:07:50] And thought you'd get applause

[00:07:53] But traitors just get jeers and boos

[00:07:55] Not visits to their graves

[00:07:58] While lincoln who got mixed reviews

[00:08:01] Beacause of you john now gets only raves

[00:08:06] Damn you johnny

[00:08:08] You paved the way

[00:08:11] For other madmen

[00:08:13] To make us pay

[00:08:16] Lots of madmen

[00:08:18] Have had their say

[00:08:21] But only for a day

[00:08:29] Listen to the stories

[00:08:32] Hear it in the songs

[00:08:36] Angry men

[00:08:36] Don't write the rules

[00:08:37] And guns don't write the wrongs

[00:08:43] Hurts a while

[00:08:44] But soon the country's

[00:08:46] Back where it belongs

[00:08:51] And that's the truth

[00:08:56] Still and all

[00:09:02] Damn you booth