Talking Union-Pete Seeger

[ti:Talking Union] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:Legends] [by:] [offset:0] [00:06.09]If you want higher wages
如果你想要更高的薪水 [00:07.19]Let me tell you what to do
让我告诉你该怎么做 [00:08.42]You got to talk to the workers
你得和工人谈谈 [00:09.63]In the shop with you
和你在商店里 [00:10.53]You got to build you
你得塑造自己 [00:11.46]A union got to make it strong
一个联盟必须强大起来 [00:12.92]But if you all stick
但如果你们坚持下去 [00:13.90]Together boys it won't be long
团结一致男孩们很快就好 [00:15.24]You'll get shorter hours
你会缩短工作时间 [00:16.18] [00:18.49]Better working conditions vacations with pay
更好的工作条件带薪休假 [00:22.12]Take your kids to the seashore
带你的孩子去海边 [00:23.09] [00:24.71]It ain't quite this simple
没有这么简单 [00:25.94]So I better explain
所以我最好解释一下 [00:26.97]Just why you got to ride on the union train
为何你要坐上工会的列车 [00:29.24]'Cause if you wait for the boss
因为如果你等着老大 [00:30.66]To raise your pay
给你加薪 [00:31.83]We'll all be waiting till Judgment Day
我们会等到审判日 [00:33.86]We'll all he buried gone to Heaven
我们会将他埋葬上天堂 [00:37.24] [00:39.09]Saint Peter'll be the straw boss then
到时候圣人彼得会做个无名小卒 [00:40.65] [00:43.31]Now you know you're underpaid
现在你知道你的报酬太低了 [00:44.52]Hut the boss says you ain't
但老板说你没有 [00:45.82]He speeds up the work till you're 'bout to faint
他加快速度直到你快要晕倒 [00:47.82]You may he down and out but you ain't beaten
你也许他穷困潦倒可你从未被打败 [00:50.12]Pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'
散发传单召集大家开会 [00:52.31]Talk it over speak your mind
好好谈谈吐露心声 [00:55.40] [00:57.36]Decide to do something about it
决定做点什么 [00:58.85] [01:01.09]'Course the boss may persuade
当然老板可能会劝说 [01:02.25]Some poor damn fool
可怜的傻瓜 [01:03.36]To go to your meeting and act like a stool
去参加你的会议并表现得像个凳子 [01:05.56]But you can always tell
但你总能看出来 [01:06.36]A stool though that's a fact
凳子虽然这是事实 [01:07.64]He's got a yellow streak
他有一条黄色的条纹 [01:08.79]Running down his back
紧追不舍 [01:09.97]He doesn't have to stool
他不必大便 [01:10.86] [01:12.23]He'll always get along
他会永远和睦相处 [01:13.36] [01:15.09]On what he takes out of blind men's cups
他从盲人杯子里拿出了什么 [01:16.82] [01:22.58]You got a union now you're sitting pretty
你有一个工会现在你过得很潇洒 [01:24.76]Put some of the boys on the steering committee
让一些男孩加入指导委员会 [01:26.64] [01:27.16]The boss won't listen when one man squawks
当有人抱怨的时候老板不会听 [01:29.08]But he's got to listen
但他必须侧耳倾听 [01:30.30]When the union talks he better
当工会发言时他会更好 [01:31.69] [01:33.62]He'll be mighty lonely
他孤独寂寞 [01:34.48] [01:36.56]Everybody decide to walk out on him
每个人都决定离他而去 [01:38.41] [01:43.14]Suppose they're working you
假设他们在欺骗你 [01:43.88]So hard it's just outrageous
如此艰难令人难以置信 [01:44.96] [01:45.57]They're paying you all starvation wages
他们给你们的工资都快饿死了 [01:47.77]You go to the boss and the boss would yell
你去找老板老板会大吼大叫 [01:49.73]Before I'd raise your pay
在我给你加薪之前 [01:50.73]I'd see you all in Hell
我会在地狱里见到你们 [01:51.91]Well he's puffing a big seegar
他吞云吐雾 [01:53.26]And feeling mighty slick
感觉妙不可言 [01:54.13]He thinks he's got your union licked
他以为你的帮派被他打败了 [01:55.62] [01:56.24]He looks out the window
他望向窗外 [01:57.19] [01:57.76]And what does he see
他看到了什么 [01:58.70]But a thousand pickets and they all agree
但是一千个纠察队员都同意 [02:00.75]He's a bastard unfair slave driver [02:06.39] [02:07.25]Bet he beats his own wife
他肯定会打自己的老婆 [02:08.39] [02:12.57]Now boy you've come to the hardest time
现在男孩你已经到了最艰难的时刻 [02:14.95]The boss will try to bust your picket line
老大会试图突破你的防线 [02:16.89]He'll call out the police the National Guard
他会叫来警察和国民警卫队 [02:19.30]They'll tell you it's a crime
他们会告诉你这是犯罪 [02:20.41]To have a union card
要有工会卡 [02:21.38]They'll raid your meeting hit you on the head
他们会突袭你的会场一击致命 [02:23.39]Call every one of you a goddamn Red
把你们每个人都叫做Red [02:25.59]Unpatriotic Japanese spies sabotaging national defense
不爱国的日本间谍破坏国防 [02:32.89] [02:35.94]But out at Ford here's what they found
但在福特外面他们发现了这样的情况 [02:38.12]And out at Vultee here's what they found
这是他们在Vultee找到的东西 [02:40.23]And out at Allis Chalmers
在AllisChalmers度假村 [02:41.53]Here's what they found
这是他们的发现 [02:42.52]And down at Bethlehem here's what they found
这是他们在伯利恒找到的东西 [02:44.50]That if you don't let red baiting break you up
如果你不让那种东西把你摧毁 [02:46.64]And if you don't let stoolpigeons break you up
如果你不让臭鸽子把你打得落花流水 [02:48.94]And if you don't let vigilantes break you up
如果你不让义警把你打得落花流水 [02:51.04]And if you don't let race hatred break you up
如果你不让种族仇恨将你击垮 [02:53.24]You'll win
你会胜利的 [02:54.10]What I mean take it easy but take it
我的意思是放轻松但是不要着急