Mark Twain - Harry Belafonte (哈里·贝拉方特)
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Written by：Trad Arr Belafonte
Many years ago on the Mississippi riverboats
许多年前在密西西比河的船上
They had men called gaugers
他们有名叫戈格的人
And the job of a gauger
量具的工作
Was to hang off
就是挂掉
The side of the boat with one hand
一只手扶着船舷
And in the other hand he had a ball of twine
另一只手拿着一团麻线
With a hunk a lead on the end of it
带着一把枪一路向前
He'd wield the lead above his head
他会把枪口瞄准头顶
And let it fly into the water
让它飞进水里
Wherever the water marked the twine
无论哪里的水标记麻线
He'd call up to the skipper and say
他会给船长打电话说
Marking on the twine is four fathoms
麻线上的标记是四英寻
'Cause then and there year after year
因为在那之后年复一年
It was getting pretty monotonous
一切变得单调乏味
Until in the eighteen hundreds
直到十九世纪
A little man
一个小个子
Came along and revolutionized the
我的出现彻底改变了
Whole gauging industry
整个测量行业
Instead of saying marking on the twine
而不是在绳索上做标记
He cut it short and said
他打断我说
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And in between each marking
在每个痕迹之间
Fill it in with a little pattern about himself
用一个关于他自己的小模式来填补它
And his every day life
他的日常生活
Well if you'd been living at that time
如果你生活在那个时代
Coming up from a distance on the Mississippi
在密西西比河上从远处传来
It would have sounded like this
听起来应该是这样的
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Four fathoms off the starboard bow
船头离右舷四英寻
I got a gal named Cindy Lou
我有个姑娘叫CindyLou
Feeds me gin and bake beans too
给我杜松子酒和豆子
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Three fathoms off the starboard bow
船头右舷三英寻
I got a friend his name is Pete
我有个朋友他的名字叫Pete
Sings dirty songs down on beel street
在比尔街上唱着下流的歌
Hahahha hahahah
哈哈哈
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Two fathoms off the starboard bow
船头离右舷两英寻
I've been working the river since ninety two
从九十二年开始我就在河边工作
I get a penny a day and bad liquor too
我一天挣一分钱酒也不好喝
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I won't save my money
我不会存钱
'Till I die
直到我死去
They gonna bury me all but my good right eye
他们会把我全部埋葬除了我的右眼
Haahahaha
哈哈哈哈
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No fathoms off the starboard bow
船头右舷已经没有了
Look out skipper pull it to the side
小心点船长把车停到路边
You gonna bust your bow and split your hide
你会拉开你的弓撕裂你的伪装
Oh great
好极了
God we done run it down
天哪我们已经成功了
Skipper gonna chase me with a big blood hound
船长会带着猎犬来追我
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