The Death of Emmett Till (Witmark Demo - 1962) - Bob Dylan

I was down in Mississippi no so long ago

在不久前的密西西比

When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door

一个来自芝加哥镇的年轻男孩 迈进了南方的大门

This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well

这个男孩命定的悲剧 你们都应铭记在心

The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till

他的肤色是黑色的 他的名字叫做埃米提尔

Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up

几个男人把他拖进了谷仓 在那里殴打他

They said they had a reason but I can't remember what

他们自称有理有据 但我就是想不起来

They tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat

他们折磨他并做的那些事 过于邪恶而让人不忍复述

There was screaming sounds inside the barn there was laughing sounds out on the street

在谷仓里是一声声哀嚎 外面的街道上却是一阵阵欢笑

Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain

之后他们将他的尸体捆于河岸之下 在腥红血雨之中

And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain

他们把他远远抛入水里 以此来结束他哀嚎之苦

The reason that they killed him there and I'm sure it ain't no lie

至于他们在那杀害他的原因 我很确定 这不是谎言

Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die

只是因为他们发现自己杀了他 然后看着他缓缓死去

And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial

紧接着 为了阻止美国对审判的抗议

Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till

两兄弟供认不讳 就是他们俩杀害了可怜的埃米提尔

But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime

但在陪审团中有那么些人 曾协助这两兄弟一同犯罪

And so this trial was a mockery but nobody seemed to mind

因此这场审判无疑是一种嘲讽 但似乎没有人注意到这一点

I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see

我看了晨报 但我非常痛恨

The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs

痛恨看到欢欣微笑的那兄弟俩 他们走下法院的台阶

For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free

因为陪审团判决他俩无罪 这两兄弟得到了释放

While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea

而此时埃米提尔的尸体冒出了泡沫 在黑人专用的南方大海上漂浮

If you can't speak out against this kind of thing a crime that's so unjust

如果你们不能大声抗议这种事 不能抗议这场不公正的邪恶罪行

Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt your mind is filled with dust

那你们的双眼定是被亡灵的污秽所蒙蔽 你们的双耳定是塞满了尘土

Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains and your blood it must refuse to flow

你们的四肢 定是被镣铐锁链所束缚 你们的血液 一定是停止了流动

For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low

因为你们让人类 堕落到了令人憎恶的地步

This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man

这首歌只是一个警示 来警示你们的同胞

That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan

警示此类现象在现今依旧存在 存在于有些党派的白袍之下

But if all of us folks that thinks alike if we gave all we could give

但如果所有的人们能够觉醒 如果我们尽己所能地付出全部

We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live

我们就能让属于我们的这片伟大土地 成为一个更美好的世界