"St. James Infirmary Blues" | Silk Road Ensemble + Rhiannon Giddens

翻译人员: 潘 可儿 校对人员: Yangyang Liu

(Music)

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I went down

我走向

to St. James Infirmary

St. James 医院

To see my baby there

去看望我的宝贝

She was lying on a long wooden table

她躺在一张长长的木桌上

So cold, so still, so fair

如此的冰冷 安静 惨白

I went up to see the doctor

我上前去找医生

"She's very low," he said

“她命不久矣”，他说

I went back to see my baby

我赶忙回去看我的宝贝

Good God

苍天呐

she's lying there dead

她躺在那里没有了气息

I went down to old Joe's bar room

我走向老 Joe

On the corner of the square

在广场角落的酒吧

They were serving drinks as per usual

他们像往常一样卖着酒

那里也聚着往常的人

And the usual crowd was there

To my left stood Old Joe McKennedy

老 Joe McKennedy 站在我的左边

His eyes were bloodshot red

他的双眼因充血而发红

He turned to the crowd around him

他转向环绕在身边的人群

And these are the words he said

说出了这么一番话

"Let her go, let her go, God bless her

让她走吧 让她走吧 上帝保佑她

Wherever she may be

无论身处何方

She can search this whole wide world all over

她都能在广阔天地中四处探寻

But she'll never find another man like me

但她永远不会 再遇到如我一般的男人

She can search this whole wide world all over

她在广阔天地中四处探寻

And she'll never find

但她永远不会

another man

再遇到

like me

如我一般的男人

When I die, please God, bury me

当我死去 上帝啊 请您用

In my ten-dollar Stetson hat

我十元的 Stetson 帽子埋葬我

Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain

在我的表链上 放一枚二十元的金币

So my friends know I died standing pat

让我的朋友知道 我死时仍如初见

Get six gamblers to carry my coffin

让六个赌徒去抬我的棺材

And six choir girls to sing me a song

六个唱诗班的女孩为我唱首歌

Stick a jazz band on my hearse wagon

让爵士乐队与我的灵车相随

To raise hell as I go along

我前行时就如天罡星下凡

Now that's the end of my story

现在我的故事接近了尾声

Let's have another round of booze

让我们开始新一轮的痛饮

And if anyone should ask you

倘若有人问起你

Just tell them I got

就告诉他们 我染上了

the St. James Infirmary

St. James 医院的

blues

忧愁

(Applause)

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