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点击复制Emmitt Till (Live) - Bob Dylan
'Twas down in Mississippi not so long ago
在不久前的密西西比
When a young boy from Chicago town
一个来自芝加哥镇的年轻男孩
Stepped through a Southern door
迈进了南方的大门
This boy's dreadful tragedy
这个男孩命定的悲剧
I can still remember well
你们都应铭记在心
The color of his skin was black
他的肤色是黑色的
And his name was Emmett Till
他的名字叫做埃米提尔
Some men they dragged him to a barn
几个男人把他拖进了谷仓
And there they beat him up
在那里殴打他
They said they had a reason
他们自称有理有据
But I disremember what
但我就是无法去回想
They tortured him and
他们折磨他并做的那些事
Did some evil things too evil to
那些过于邪恶而让人不忍
Repeat
复述的事
There was screaming sounds inside the barn
在谷仓里是一声声哀嚎
There was laughing sounds out on the street
外面的街道上却是一阵阵欢笑
Then they rolled his body
之后他们将他的尸体
Down a gulf amidst a blood-red rain
捆于河岸之下 在腥红血雨之中
And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his
他们把他远远抛入水里
Screaming pain
以此来结束他哀嚎之苦
The reason that they killed him there
至于他们在那杀害他的原因
And I'm sure it ain't no lie
我很确定 这不是谎言
He was a black-skinned boy so
只是因为他们发现自己杀了他
He was born to die
然后看着他缓缓死去
And then to stop the United States
紧接着 为了阻止美国
Of yelling for a trial
对审判的抗议
Two brothers they confessed
两兄弟供认不讳
That they had killed poor
就是他们俩杀害了可怜的
Emmett Till
埃米提尔
But on the jury there were men
但在陪审团中有那么些人
Who helped the brothers
曾协助这两兄弟
Commit this awful crime
一同犯罪
And so this trial was a mockery
因此这场审判无疑是一种嘲讽
But nobody seemed to mind
但似乎没有人注意到这一点
I saw the morning papers
我看了晨报
But I could not bear to see
但我非常痛恨
The smiling brothers walkin' down
痛恨看到欢欣微笑的那兄弟俩
The courthouse stairs
他们走下法院的台阶
For the jury found them innocent
因为陪审团判决他俩无罪
And the brothers they went free
这两兄弟得到了释放
While Emmett's body floats the foam
而此时埃米提尔的尸体冒出了泡沫
Of a Jim Crow southern sea
在黑人专用的南方大海上漂浮
If you can't speak out against this kind of thing
如果你们不能大声抗议这种事
A crime that's so unjust
不能抗议这场不公正的邪恶罪行
Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt
那你们的双眼定是被亡灵的污秽所蒙蔽
Your mind is filled with dust
你们的双耳定是塞满了尘土
Your arms and legs they
你们的四肢
Must be in shackles and chains
定是被镣铐锁链所束缚
And your blood it must refuse to flow
你们的血液 一定是停止了流动
For you let this human race fall
因为你们让人类
Down so God-awful low
堕落到了令人憎恶的深处
This song is just a reminder
这首歌只是一个警示
To remind your fellow man
来警示你们的同胞
That this kind of thing still lives today in that
警示此类现象在现今依旧存在
Ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan
存在于三党的白袍之下
But if all us folks that thinks alike
但如果所有的人们能够觉醒
If we gave all we could give
如果我们尽己所能地付出全部
We could make this great land of ours
我们就能让属于我们的这片伟大土地
A greater place to live
成为一个更美好的世界