The Death of Emmett Till-Bob Dylan

[ti:The Death Of Emmett Till] [ar:Bob Dylan] [al:The Witmark Demos: 1962-1964 (The Bootleg Series Vol. 9)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Death of Emmett Till (Witmark Demo - 1962) - Bob Dylan [00:13.86]I was down in Mississippi no so long ago
在不久前的密西西比 [00:21.64] [00:23.01]When a young boy from Chicago town stepped through a Southern door
一个来自芝加哥镇的年轻男孩 迈进了南方的大门 [00:30.92] [00:32.39]This boy's dreadful tragedy I can still remember well
这个男孩命定的悲剧 你们都应铭记在心 [00:39.46] [00:40.83]The color of his skin was black and his name was Emmett Till
他的肤色是黑色的 他的名字叫做埃米提尔 [00:48.23] [00:49.79]Some men they dragged him to a barn and there they beat him up
几个男人把他拖进了谷仓 在那里殴打他 [00:57.40] [00:58.71]They said they had a reason but I can't remember what
他们自称有理有据 但我就是想不起来 [01:05.51] [01:07.47]They tortured him and did some evil things too evil to repeat
他们折磨他并做的那些事 过于邪恶而让人不忍复述 [01:13.77] [01:16.39]There was screaming sounds inside the barn there was laughing sounds out on the street
在谷仓里是一声声哀嚎 外面的街道上却是一阵阵欢笑 [01:23.89] [01:25.20]Then they rolled his body down a gulf amidst a bloody red rain
之后他们将他的尸体捆于河岸之下 在腥红血雨之中 [01:33.11] [01:34.17]And they threw him in the waters wide to cease his screaming pain
他们把他远远抛入水里 以此来结束他哀嚎之苦 [01:42.26] [01:43.01]The reason that they killed him there and I'm sure it ain't no lie
至于他们在那杀害他的原因 我很确定 这不是谎言 [01:50.66] [01:51.88]Was just for the fun of killin' him and to watch him slowly die
只是因为他们发现自己杀了他 然后看着他缓缓死去 [01:59.50] [02:00.87]And then to stop the United States of yelling for a trial
紧接着 为了阻止美国对审判的抗议 [02:08.46] [02:09.59]Two brothers they confessed that they had killed poor Emmett Till
两兄弟供认不讳 就是他们俩杀害了可怜的埃米提尔 [02:16.85] [02:17.93]But on the jury there were men who helped the brothers commit this awful crime
但在陪审团中有那么些人 曾协助这两兄弟一同犯罪 [02:25.87] [02:27.09]And so this trial was a mockery but nobody seemed to mind
因此这场审判无疑是一种嘲讽 但似乎没有人注意到这一点 [02:34.79] [02:36.03]I saw the morning papers but I could not bear to see
我看了晨报 但我非常痛恨 [02:45.53]The smiling brothers walkin' down the courthouse stairs
痛恨看到欢欣微笑的那兄弟俩 他们走下法院的台阶 [02:52.29] [02:53.47]For the jury found them innocent and the brothers they went free
因为陪审团判决他俩无罪 这两兄弟得到了释放 [03:01.37] [03:02.32]While Emmett's body floats the foam of a Jim Crow southern sea
而此时埃米提尔的尸体冒出了泡沫 在黑人专用的南方大海上漂浮 [03:10.44] [03:11.19]If you can't speak out against this kind of thing a crime that's so unjust
如果你们不能大声抗议这种事 不能抗议这场不公正的邪恶罪行 [03:18.87] [03:19.99]Your eyes are filled with dead men's dirt your mind is filled with dust
那你们的双眼定是被亡灵的污秽所蒙蔽 你们的双耳定是塞满了尘土 [03:26.93] [03:28.52]Your arms and legs they must be in shackles and chains and your blood it must refuse to flow
你们的四肢 定是被镣铐锁链所束缚 你们的血液 一定是停止了流动 [03:35.78] [03:36.71]For you let this human race fall down so God-awful low
因为你们让人类 堕落到了令人憎恶的地步 [03:44.32] [03:45.79]This song is just a reminder to remind your fellow man
这首歌只是一个警示 来警示你们的同胞 [03:52.55] [03:53.80]That this kind of thing still lives today in that ghost-robed Ku Klux Klan
警示此类现象在现今依旧存在 存在于有些党派的白袍之下 [04:01.33] [04:02.57]But if all of us folks that thinks alike if we gave all we could give
但如果所有的人们能够觉醒 如果我们尽己所能地付出全部 [04:09.66] [04:11.30]We could make this great land of ours a greater place to live
我们就能让属于我们的这片伟大土地 成为一个更美好的世界