Georgia Farm Boy - The Box Tops
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Daddy was a simple man
父亲是个朴实的男人
Just a red dirt Georgia farmer
只是乔治亚州的红土农夫
And his momma spent her
他的母亲耗尽短暂一生
Short life havin' kids and balin' hay
生儿育女 捆扎干草
He had fifteen years and
他年仅十五岁
An ache inside to wander
内心却渴望流浪
So he hopped a freight in
于是在韦克罗斯跳上货车
Waycross and wound up in L A
最终漂泊至洛杉矶
Lord the cold nights had no
主啊 寒夜不曾怜悯
Pity for a Waycross Georgia farm boy
那个来自韦克罗斯的乔治亚农家男孩
Most days he went hungry
他终日饥肠辘辘
Then the summer came
直到夏天来临
He met a girl known on the strip
他在街头遇见一个姑娘
As Francisco's Mabel Joy
人们都叫她弗朗西斯科的梅布尔·乔伊
Destitution's child born of an L A
她是贫民窟的孩子 生于洛杉矶
Street called "Shame"
那条名为"耻辱"的街道
Growin' up came quietly in the
在无声岁月中悄然成长
Arms of Mabel Joy
依偎在梅布尔·乔伊的臂弯
Laughter found their mornings
晨光里飘荡着欢笑声
Brought meaning to his life
为他的生命赋予意义
The night before she left sleep
在她离去前的夜晚
Came and left that
睡意来了又走
Waycross Georgia boy with dreams
留给这个怀揣梦想的韦克罗斯男孩
Of Georgia cotton and a California wife
对乔治亚棉田与加州新娘的憧憬
Sunday morning found him
周日清晨发现他
Standin' 'neath the red light at her door
伫立在她门前的红灯下
Right cross sent him reelin' put him
一记右勾拳将他击倒
Face down on the floor
面朝下瘫倒在地
In the place of Mabel Joy he found
在梅布尔·乔伊的住处
A merchant mad marine
遇见个暴躁的商船水手
Who growled "Your Georgia neck is
那人咆哮道"你这乔治亚乡巴佬
Red but sunny you're still green"
晒得通红却还天真得很"
He turned twenty-one in
他在二十一岁那年
A grey rock federal prison
被关进灰石联邦监狱
The old judge had no mercy for
年迈的法官毫不怜悯
A Waycross Georgia boy
这个韦克罗斯的农家子弟
Starin´ at those four grey walls
凝望着四面灰墙
In silence he would listen
在寂静中侧耳倾听
To that midnight freight he knew
那午夜的货运列车
Would take him back to Mabel Joy
会带他回到梅布尔·乔伊身边
Morning found him standin' 'neath
清晨时分 他站在她门前
The red light at her door
红灯映照的门廊下
With a bullet in his side he cried
身中子弹的他哭喊着
"Have you seen Mabel Joy "
"你可曾见过梅布尔·乔伊"
Stunned and shaken someone said
震惊的路人颤声回答
"Why she's not here no more
"她早已不在此处
She left this sans four years today
四年前的这个周日离开
They say she's lookin' for some Georgia farm boy "
据说在寻找某个乔治亚农家少年"