Percy’s Song - Fairport Convention

"Bad news bad news come to me where I sleep"
噩耗传来我长眠不起
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"Say one of your friends is in trouble deep"
说你的一个朋友深陷困境
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任由风雨吹拂
"Tell me the trouble tell me once to my ear"
告诉我麻烦在我耳边说一次
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"Joliet prison and ninety-nine years"
Joliet监狱和九十九年
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"Oh what's the charge of how this came to be "
这一切的根源是什么
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"Manslaughter in the highest degree"
最高程度的过失杀人
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I sat down and wrote the best words I could write
我坐下来写下我能写的最好的话
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Explaining to the judge I'd be there on Wednesday night
向法官解释我周三晚上会去
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Without a reply I left by the moon
没有一个答复我就在月光下离去
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And was in his chambers by the next afternoon
第二天下午就在他的房间里
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"Would you tell me the facts " I said without fear
"你能否告诉我真相"我毫不畏惧地说
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"That a friend of mine could get ninety-nine years"
我的一个朋友可能会被判九十九年
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"A crash on the highway flew the car to a field"
高速公路上的一场车祸让车子飞向了田野
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"There was four persons killed and he was at the wheel"
有四个人死了他当时在方向盘上
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"But I knew him as good as I'm knowing myself"
但我对他的了解就像我对自己的了解一样多
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"And he wouldn't harm a life that belonged to someone else"
他不会伤害别人的生命
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The judge he spoke out of the side of his mouth
法官开口说话了
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Saying "The witness who saw he left without doubt"
他说目击者肯定是走了
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"That may be true he's got a sentence to serve"
也许这是真的他要服刑了
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"But ninety-nine years he just don't deserve"
但99年的监禁他根本不配
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"Too late too late for his case it is sealed"
太晚了他的案子已经尘埃落定
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"His sentence it is passed and cannot be repealed"
他的判决已经通过无法撤销
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"But he ain't no criminal and his crime it is none"
可他不是罪犯他的罪行不值一提
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"What happened to him could happen to anyone"
发生在他身上的事可能发生在任何人身上
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At that the judge jumped forward and his face it did freeze
听到这句话法官突然跳上前来他的表情确实僵硬了
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Saying "Could you kindly leave my office now please "
你能不能离开我的办公室
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His eyes looked funny and I stood up so slow
他的眼神怪怪的我慢慢地站起来
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With no other choice except for to go
除了离开别无选择
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I walked down the hallway and I heard his door slam
我走在走廊上听到他摔门的声音
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I walked down the courthouse stairs and did not understand
我走下法院的楼梯不明白
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And I played my guitar through the night to the day
我弹着吉他从白天到黑夜
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And the only tune my guitar could play was "The Old Cruel Rain And The Wind"
我的吉他只会弹奏《残酷的雨与风》这首歌