Desperados Waiting for a Train - Guy Clark

Desperados Waiting for a Train - Guy Clark

I played the Red River Valley
我在红河谷玩耍嬉戏
He'd sit in the kitchen and cry
他坐在厨房里痛哭流涕
Run his fingers through seventy years of livin'
扳着手指 细数流逝的七十年时光
"I wonder Lord has every well I've drilled gone dry "
上帝啊 我想知道 为何我挖的每一口井都干涸了
We were friends me and this old man
我们曾是挚友 我和这个老人
Like desperados waitin' for a train
就像等待火车的亡命徒
Desperados waitin' for a train
就像等待火车的亡命徒
Well he's a drifter an' a driller of oil wells
他是一个流浪汉 一个钻井工人
And an old school man of the world
这个世界上的守旧派
He taught me how to drive his car when he w's too drunk to
他教我如何驾驶汽车 当他酩酊大醉
Oh and he'd wink and give me money for the girls
他会对我眨眼 让我把小费给那些女孩
An' our lives were like some old Western movie
我们的生活就像一部老西部片
Like desperados waitin' for a train
就像等待火车的亡命徒
Like desperados waitin' for a train
就像等待火车的亡命徒
An' from the time that I could walk he'd take me with him
从我学会走路 他就带我一路同行
To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe
去一个叫做青蛙咖啡屋的酒吧
An' there was old men with beer guts and dominos
他有着啤酒肚 戴着假牙齿
Oh an they're lying 'bout their lives while they played
当他们纵情狂欢 彼此都说着谎言
An' I was just a kid that they all called his sidekick
我只是个孩子 他们都把我当做他的伙伴
Like desperados waitin' for a train
就像等待火车的亡命徒
Like desperados waitin' for a train
就像等待火车的亡命徒
One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty
有一天当我抬头张望 他已经八十岁了
An' he's brown tobacco stains all down his chin
他的下巴上沾着棕色的烟草
Well to me he's one of the heroes of this country
对我来说 他是这个国家的英雄之一
So why's he all dressed up like them old men
所以 为何他总打扮得和其他老人一样
He's drinkin' beer and playin' Moon and Forty-two
他喝着啤酒 玩着游戏
Like a desperado waitin' for a train
就像一个等待火车的亡命徒
Like a desperado waitin' for a train
就像一个等待火车的亡命徒
An' then the day before he died I went to see him
在他去世的前一天 我去看望了他
I was grown and he was almost gone
我已经长大了 但他几乎就要离去
So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen
所以 我们闭上双眼 梦见我们在厨房里的情景
And sang another verse to that old song
再次唱起那首老歌
Come on Jack that son-of-a-b**ch is comin'
来吧 杰克 地狱的恶魔就要来临
We're like desperados waitin' for a train
我们就像等待火车的亡命徒
Like desperados waitin' for a train
就像等待火车的亡命徒
Like desperados waitin' for a train
就像等待火车的亡命徒
Like desperados waitin' for a train
就像等待火车的亡命徒