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

譯者: Conway Ye 審譯者: Tina Lally

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（音樂）

I went down

我走向

to St. James Infirmary

聖詹姆斯醫院

To see my baby there

去看望我的寶貝

She was lying on a long wooden table

她躺在長長的木桌上

So cold, so still, so fair

多麼寒冷，多麼靜止，多麼平靜

I went up to see the doctor

我去見醫生

「她情況很不好，」他說

"She's very low," he said

I went back to see my baby

我回去見我的寶貝

Good God

哦上帝

she's lying there dead

她已經躺在那兒死了

I went down to old Joe's bar room

我去老喬的酒吧

在十字路口的角落

On the corner of the square

They were serving drinks as per usual

他們和往常一樣在上酒

人群也跟往常一樣

And the usual crowd was there

To my left stood Old Joe McKennedy

我的左邊站著老喬麥甘迺迪

His eyes were bloodshot red

他的眼睛異常通紅

He turned to the crowd around him

他轉向身邊的人群

And these are the words he said

這是他說的話：

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

「讓她走，讓她走，上帝保佑她

Wherever she may be

無論她會在哪

She can search this whole wide world all over

她能夠重新探索這個世界

But she'll never find another man like me

但是她再也找不到像我一樣的男人了

She can search this whole wide world all over

她能夠重新探索這個世界

And she'll never find

但是她再也找不到

像我一樣的

another man

男人了

like me

When I die, please God, bury me

當我死的時候，上帝，請你埋葬我

In my ten-dollar Stetson hat

埋在我十美元的牛仔帽裡

Put a twenty-dollar gold piece on my watch chain

放一個二十美金的金錶鏈

So my friends know I died standing pat

讓我的朋友們知道 即使我死去也還是原來的樣子

Get six gamblers to carry my coffin

讓六個賭徒帶著我的棺材

And six choir girls to sing me a song

六個唱詩班女孩給我唱首歌

Stick a jazz band on my hearse wagon

在我的靈車放一隻爵士樂隊

To raise hell as I go along

在我離去的時候大聲演奏

現在這就是我故事的結尾

Now that's the end of my story

Let's have another round of booze

讓我們再喝一輪的酒

如果有人問你

And if anyone should ask you

就告訴他們我得了

Just tell them I got

聖詹姆斯醫院

the St. James Infirmary

blues

藍調

（鼓掌）

(Applause)