Ode To Billy Joe(Complete version originally performed by Bobby Gentry) - Various Artists (欧美群星)

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It was the third of June

那是六月的第三天

Another sleepy dusty delta day

又一个昏昏欲睡的三角洲尘日

I was out choppin' cotton

我在外面摘棉花

And my brother was balin' hay

我兄弟正在捆干草

And at dinner time we stopped

晚餐时分我们停下农活

And walked back to the house to eat

走回屋里吃饭

And Mama hollered out the back door

妈妈在后门大声叮嘱

"Y'all remember to wipe your feet"

"记得把脚擦干净"

And then she said

这时她开口说道

"I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge

"今早从乔克托岭传来消息

Today Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

比利·乔·麦卡利斯特今天从塔拉哈奇桥上跳了下去"

Papa said to Mama

爸爸对妈妈说

As he passed around the black-eyed peas

当他递过黑眼豌豆时

"Well Billie Joe never had a lick o' sense

"比利·乔那孩子向来不懂事

Pass the biscuits please

请把饼干递过来

There's five more acres in the lower forty

下四十亩地还有五英亩待耕"

I've got to plow"

我得去耕地了

And Mama said it was a shame about

妈妈说这真是个遗憾

Billie Joe anyhow

关于比利·乔的事

Seems like nothin' ever comes to

似乎从没发生过什么好事

No good up on Choctaw Ridge

在乔克托岭上

And now Billie Joe McAllister's

现在比利·乔·麦卡利斯特

Jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

从塔拉哈奇桥上跳了下去

Brother said he recollected

哥哥说他记得

When he and Tom and Billie Joe

当他和汤姆还有比利·乔

Put a frog down my back

在卡罗尔县影院

At the Carroll County picture show

把青蛙塞进我后背时

And wasn't I talkin' to him

上周日礼拜结束后

After church last Sunday night

我不是还和他说话来着

I'll have another piece of apple pie

我再吃块苹果派吧

You know it don't seem right

你知道 这感觉不对劲

I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge

昨天在乔克托岭锯木厂看见了他

And now you tell me

而此刻你告诉我

Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

比利·乔纵身跃下了塔拉哈奇桥

Mama said to me

妈妈轻声问我

"Child what's happened to your appetite

"孩子 你怎么食不下咽

I been cookin' all mornin'

我忙活了一整个早晨

And you haven't touched single bite

你却连一口都没动"

That nice young preacher

那位和善的年轻牧师

Brother Taylor dropped by today

泰勒兄弟今天来家里坐了坐

Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday

他说很乐意周日共进晚餐

Oh by the way

哦 顺便一提

He said he saw a girl

他说看见一个姑娘

That looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge

在乔克托岭上像极了你

And she and Billie Joe was throwin'

她和比利·乔正往桥下

Somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

往塔拉哈奇河里扔着什么

A year has come and gone since

自听闻比利·乔的消息

I heard the news 'bout Billie Joe

一年时光已悄然流逝

And brother married Becky Thompson

哥哥娶了贝基·汤普森

They bought a store in Tupelo

他们在图珀洛开了家小店

There was a virus goin' round

当时瘟疫正在蔓延

Papa caught it and he died last spring

父亲染病 去年春天离世

And now Mama doesn't seem to

如今母亲终日消沉

Want to do much of anything

对万事都提不起精神

And me I spend a lot of time picking

而我总在乔克托山脊

Flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

采撷野花消磨时光

And drop them into the muddy

将它们抛入浑浊的

Water off the Tallahatchie Bridge

塔拉哈奇桥下的河水中