Talking Hard Work - Woody Guthrie (伍迪·格思里)

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While we are on the subject of hard work

当我们谈起努力工作时

I just wanted to tell you

我只想告诉你

That I am a man who likes hard work

我是个喜欢埋头苦干的人

I was born working

我生来工作

And I worked my way up by hard work

我靠着艰苦的工作一路青云直上

I ain't ever got no where

我无处可去

But I got there by hard work

但我是靠着努力才走到今天的

Work of the hardest kind

最艰难的工作

I been down and I been out

我很失落我很迷茫

I been disgusted I been busted

我很厌恶我被伤害了

And I couldn't be trusted

我不值得信任

I worked my way up

我一路摸爬滚打

And I worked my way down

我一路奋力拼搏

I been drunk and I been sober

我喝醉了我很清醒

I been baptized and hyjacked

我接受了洗礼

Worked my way in jail

我在监狱里摸爬滚打

And I worked my way outta jail

我拼尽全力从监狱里出来

Woke up a lot of mornins

早上醒来好多次

Didnt know where I was at

不知道我身在何处

The hardest work I ever done was

我做过的最艰难的事情

When I was tryin to get myself

当我试着找回自己

A worried woman to help ease my worried mind

一个忧心忡忡的女人帮我排解忧愁

I'm gonna tell ya just how much work I had to do to get this woman

我要告诉你为了得到这个女人我付出了多少努力

I was tellin you about

我告诉过你

I shook hands with 97 of her kinfolk and her blood relatives

我和她97个亲戚和血亲握手

And I done just the same with 86 people

我对86个人做了同样的事

Whos just her friends and her neighbors

谁只是她的朋友和邻居

I kissed 73 babies

我亲吻了73个宝贝

And put dry pants on 34 of em well as others

给其中34个人穿上干裤子和其他人一样

Done this same thing well

同样的事情做得很好

There are a lot of other things just like this

还有很多其他的事情就是这样

I held 125 wild horses and put saddles and bridles on more than that

我牵了125匹野马还为它们安上马鞍和缰绳

Harnessed some of the wildest and craziest teams in that whole country

带领着全国最狂野最疯狂的队伍

I rode 14 loco broncos to a stand still

我骑着十四匹野马一动不动

And I let 42 hound dogs lick me all over

7 times Is bit by hungry dogs

被饥饿的狗咬了七次

And I was chewed all to pieces by rattlesnakes and water moccasins on 2 river bottoms

我被河底的响尾蛇和莫卡辛鞋咬得体无完肤

I chopped and carried 314 arm loads of stove wood

我砍柴的时候扛了314臂柴

109 buckets of coal

一百零九桶煤

Carried a gallon of kerosene 18 miles over the mountains

带着一加仑的煤油翻山越岭十八英里

Got lost lost a good pair of shoes in a mudhole

迷失方向在泥坑里丢了一双好鞋

And I chopped and weeded 48 rows of short cotton

我把48行的短棉花切碎除草

13 acres of bad corn

13亩坏玉米

I cut the sticker weeds out of 11 back yards

我把后院里的杂草都清理干净

All on account of cuz I wanted to show her

都是因为我想让她知道

That I was a man and I liked to work

我是个男子汉我喜欢工作

I cleaned out 9 barn lofts

我清理了九个仓库阁楼

Cranked 31 cars all makes and models

我开了31辆车都是品牌和型号

Pulled 3 cars out of mud holes and 4 or 5 out of snow drifts

从泥坑里救出三辆车从雪堆里救出四五辆车

I dug 5 cisterns of water for some of her friends

我为她的朋友挖了五个蓄水池

Run all kinds of errands

做各种各样的事情

Played the fiddle for 9 church meetins

为九场教堂集会演奏小提琴

I Joined 11 separate denominations

我加入了11个不同的教派

I joined up and signed up with 7 best trade unions I could find

我加入了7个我能找到的最好的工会

I paid my wages um a dues 6 months in advance

我提前六个月付了工资

I waded 48 miles of swamps and 6 big rivers

我涉过48英里的沼泽和6条大河

Walked across 2 ranges of mountains and crossed 3 deserts

翻越两座高山穿越三片沙漠

I got the fever Sun stroke Malaria blue moonstruck skeeter bit Poison Ivy

我热血沸腾太阳暴晒疟疾蓝色月光皎洁我有点像毒药Ivy

And the 7-year itch and the blind staggers

七年之痒盲目的人步履蹒跚

I was give up for less lost and dead a couple of times

我曾经为了少一点迷失和死亡放弃过几次

Struck by lightning struck by Congress struck by friends and kinfolks

被闪电击中被国会击中被朋友和亲人击中

Well as by 3 cars on highways A lot of times in peoples hen-houses

还有三辆车在高速公路上飞驰很多时候都在人们的鸡舍里

I been hit and run down run over and walked on knocked around

我被撞了一次又一次地摔倒在地

I'm just sittin here now tryin to study up what else I can do

我坐在这里研究我还能做什么

To show that women that I still ain't afraid of hard work

告诉那些女人我依然不怕辛苦