Patrick Russell - Tom Russell

Patrick Russell - Tom Russell
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My name is Patrick Russell I've led a Christian life
我的名字是帕特里克·拉塞尔 我过着基督徒的生活
I speak of family history as it's transcribed by my wife
我讲述着由我妻子记录的家庭历史
I sit here in New Hampton the year is nineteen ten
我坐在这里，在新汉普顿，这一年是1910年
Looking back from Iowa towards Mother Ireland
从爱荷华州回望母亲的爱尔兰
I was born in Templemore in eighteen twenty five
我于1825年出生在坦普尔莫尔
Recalled a happy boyhood until my mother died
回忆起我母亲去世前的快乐童年
Starvation crept across the land America's our dream
饥荒蔓延大地 美国是我们的梦想
Six cruel weeks on stormy seas aboard the ship Tyrene
在暴风雨的海上，我们在泰琳号船上度过了残酷的六周
American primitive man in an American primitive land
美国原始人 在美国原始的土地上
I washed my face in a frying pan American primitive man
我用煎锅洗脸 美国原始人
At last we docked in old Quebec the English offered farm and ground
最终我们停靠在古老的魁北克 英国人提供了农场和土地
But we'd lived too long under English rule to United States we're bound
但我们已受够了英国的统治 决心前往美国
By train and then by cattle boat aw the filth down in that hold
乘火车再坐牛船 船舱里的污秽令人作呕
We landed in Milwalkee trekked 200 miles or more
我们抵达密尔沃基 跋涉了200多英里
A sack of new potatoes was carried by each man
每个男人都背着一袋新土豆
Four spades for cultivation we'd brought from Ireland
我们从爱尔兰带来了四把耕作的铁锹
We worked at splitting railroad ties bought one old milking cow
我们劈开铁路枕木，买了一头老奶牛
A quarter section uncleared land two oxen and a plough
一片未开垦的土地，两头牛和一把犁
At night we heard the wolves howl on our newly purchased farm
夜晚，我们听到狼嚎，在新买的农场里
And starving lads from the civil war took shelter in our barn
内战中饥饿的年轻人，在我们的谷仓中避难
The Larsens and the Cooneys the Russells the Molloys
拉森家和库尼家，拉塞尔家和莫洛伊家
We tilled the soil of Iowa and grew a spate of girls and boys
我们耕种爱荷华的土地，养育了一群儿女
American primitive man in an American primitive land
美国原始人 在美国原始的土地上
A whiskey still in an oatmeal can American primitive man
燕麦罐中的威士忌蒸馏器 美国原始人
I'm an American primitive man
我是美国原始人