The Murder Of Maria Marten - Shirley Collins

The Murder Of Maria Marten - Shirley Collins/Albion Country Band
以下歌词翻译由文曲大模型提供
Written by：Traditional

If you'll meet me at the Red Barn
若你愿在红谷仓与我相会
As sure as I have life
我以生命起誓
I will take you to Ipswich Town
我将带你前往伊普斯威奇镇
And there make you my wife
在那里娶你为妻
He straight went home and fetched his gun
他径直回家取来他的枪
His pickaxe and his spade
他的镐和铲
He went unto the Red Barn
他走向红谷仓
And there he dug her grave
在那里为她掘了坟墓
Come all you thoughtless young men
所有轻率的年轻人啊
A warning take by me
请以我为戒
To think on my unhappy fate
想想我悲惨的命运
To be hanged upon a tree
被绞死在树上
My name is William Corder
我的名字是威廉·科德
To you I do declare
我向你们坦白
I courted Maria Marten
我曾追求玛丽亚·马顿
Most beautiful and fair
她美丽而纯洁
I promised I would marry her
我曾承诺要娶她为妻
Upon a certain day
在某个特定的日子
Instead of that I was resolved
然而我却下定决心
To take her life away
要夺走她的生命
I went unto her father's house
我来到她父亲的家
The eighteenth day of May
在五月的第十八天
And said my dear Maria
并对亲爱的玛丽亚说
We will fix a wedding day
我们将定下婚礼的日子
With her heart so light she thought no harm
她心怀轻快，未曾想到会有伤害
To meet me she did go
她前来与我相会
I murdered her all in the barn
我在谷仓中将她杀害
And laid her body low
将她的身体安放低处
After the horrid deed was done
那可怕的罪行完成后
She laid there in her gore
她躺在血泊之中
Her bleeding mangled body lay
她流血破碎的身体
Beneath the Red Barn floor
躺在红谷仓的地板下
Now all things being silent
此刻万籁俱寂
Her spirit could not rest
她的灵魂无法安息
She appeared unto her mother
她出现在母亲面前
Who'd suckled her at her breast
那位曾哺育她的母亲
For many a long month or more
漫长的数月甚至更久
Her mind being sore oppressed
她的心灵备受煎熬
Neither at night nor yet by day
无论是夜晚还是白天
Could she take any rest
她都无法得到安宁
Her mother's mind being so disturbed
她母亲的心神如此不安
She dreamed it three nights o'er
她连续三夜梦见
Her daughter she lay murdered
她的女儿被谋杀
Beneath the Red Barn floor
躺在红谷仓的地板下
She sent the father to the Barn
她派父亲前往谷仓
Where he the ground did thrust
他挖掘了地面
And there he found his daughter
在那里他发现了女儿
Lay mingling with the dust
与尘土混在一起
My trial was hard I could not stand
我的审判艰难 我无法承受
Most woeful was the sight
那景象令人悲痛欲绝
When her dear bones was brought to prove
当她的遗骨被呈上作为证据
Which pierced my heart quite
深深刺痛了我的心
Her aged father standing by
她年迈的父亲站在一旁
Likewise his loving wife
还有他深爱的妻子
And in her grief her hair she tore
在悲痛中她撕扯着自己的头发
She scarcely could keep life
几乎无法维持生命
Adieu adieu my loving friends
再见了，再见了，我亲爱的朋友们
My glass is almost run
我的生命即将走到尽头
On Monday next will be my last
下周一将是我的最后一天
When I am to be hung
我将被处以绞刑
So all young men who do pass by
所有经过的年轻人们
With pity look on me
请以怜悯之心看着我
For murdering of that young girl
因为我谋杀了那个年轻女孩
I was hung upon a tree
我被吊死在树上