Talking Union-Pete Seeger

[ti:Talking Union] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:Which Side Are You On] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Union - Pete Seeger
以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供 [00:02.69]Written by：L. Hays/M. Lampell/P. Seeger [00:05.39]Now if you want higher wages let me tell you what to do
如果你想要更高的薪水让我告诉你该怎么做 [00:07.67]You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you
你得和店里的工人谈谈 [00:09.97]You got to build you a union got to make it strong
你必须建立一个强大的联盟 [00:12.28]But if you all stick together boys it won't be long
但如果你们团结一致男孩那就不会太久 [00:14.67]You get shorter hours better working conditions
你缩短工作时间改善工作条件 [00:18.64] [00:20.35]Vacations with pay take your kids to the seashore
带薪休假带你的孩子去海边度假 [00:22.33] [00:23.98]It ain't quite this simple so I better explain
事情没有这么简单所以我最好解释一下 [00:26.23]Just why you got to ride on the union train
为何你要坐上工会的列车 [00:28.48]'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay
因为如果你等着老板给你加薪 [00:31.01]We'll all be a waitin' till judgment day
我们会等待着审判日的到来 [00:33.07]We'll all be buried gone to heaven
我们都会被埋葬上天堂 [00:36.38] [00:38.17]St peter'll be the straw boss then
到时候圣彼得会成为无名小卒 [00:39.87] [00:42.53]Now you know you're underpaid but the boss says you ain't
现在你知道你的薪水很低但老板说你没有 [00:44.84]He speeds up the work 'til you're 'bout to faint
他加快速度直到你快要晕倒 [00:46.92]You may be down and out but you ain't beaten
你也许穷困潦倒可你从未被打败 [00:49.03]You can pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'
你可以散发传单召开会议 [00:51.29]Talk it over speak your mind
好好谈谈吐露心声 [00:54.71] [00:56.45]Decide to do somethin' about it
决定为此做点什么 [00:58.09] [01:00.18]Course the boss may persuade some poor d**n fool
当然老板可能会说服一些可怜的傻瓜 [01:02.48]To go to your meetin' and act like a stool
去参加你的会议并表现得像个凳子 [01:04.47]But you can always tell a stool though that's a fact
但你总能说出一个凳子，尽管这是事实 [01:06.38]He's got a yaller streak a runnin' down his back
他有一个黄色的条纹一路狂飙 [01:08.80]He doesn't have to stool he'll always get along
他不必大便，他会一直相处融洽 [01:12.50] [01:13.89]On what he takes out of blind man's cups
他从盲人的杯子里拿出了什么 [01:15.88] [01:21.50]You got a union now and you're sittin' pretty
你现在有了工会你现在过得很潇洒 [01:23.66]Put some of the boys on the steering committee
让一些男孩加入指导委员会 [01:26.02]The boss won't listen when one guy squawks
当有人抱怨的时候老板不会听 [01:28.02]But he's got to listen when the union talks
但当工会发言时他必须侧耳倾听 [01:30.17]He'd better be mighty lonely
他最好孤身一人 [01:33.49] [01:35.55]Everybody decide to walk out on him
每个人都决定离他而去 [01:37.42] [01:41.94]Suppose they're working you so hard it's just outrageous
假设他们让你很辛苦这简直太过分了 [01:44.22]And they're paying you all starvation wages
他们给你的工资都快饿死了 [01:46.59]You go to the boss and the boss would yell
你去找老板老板会大吼大叫 [01:48.43]Before I raise your pay I'd see you all in hell
在我给你们加薪之前我会让你们下地狱 [01:50.43]Well he's puffing a big cigar feeling mighty slick
他吞云吐雾感觉自己游刃有余 [01:52.81]'Cause he thinks he's got your union licked
因为他觉得他把你的帮派都打败了 [01:55.11]Well he looks out the window and what does he see
他望向窗外他看到了什么 [01:57.21]But a thousand pickets and they all agree
但是一千个纠察队员都同意 [01:59.33]He's a bastard unfair slave driver [02:05.73]Bet he beats his wife
他肯定会打他老婆 [02:06.88] [02:11.24]Now boys you've come to the hardest time
现在孩子们你们已经到了最艰难的时刻 [02:13.59]The boss will try to bust your picket line
老大会试图突破你的防线 [02:15.46]He'll call out the police the national guard
他会叫来警察和国民警卫队 [02:17.87]They'll tell you it's a crime to have a union card
他们会告诉你拥有工会卡是一种罪恶 [02:20.12]They'll raid your meetin' they'll hit you on the head
他们会突袭你的会议他们会一拳打在你的头上 [02:22.11]They'll call every one of you a goddam red
他们会叫你们每个人都红得不行 [02:24.14]Unpatriotic Japanese spies sabotaging national defense
不爱国的日本间谍破坏国防 [02:31.81] [02:34.60]But out at ford here's what they found
但在福特外面他们发现了什么 [02:36.80]And out at vultee here's what they found
这是他们发现的东西 [02:39.01]And out at all is chalmers here's what they found
Chalmers一片狼藉这是他们的发现 [02:41.31]And down at Bethlehem here's what they found
这是他们在伯利恒找到的东西 [02:43.35]That if you don't let red baiting break you up
如果你不让那种东西把你摧毁 [02:45.44]And if you don't let stool pigeons break you up
如果你不让鸽子把你打垮 [02:47.77]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 [02:49.87]And if you don't let race hatred break you up
如果你不让种族仇恨将你击垮 [02:51.96]You'll win what I mean take it easy but take it
你会胜利的我的意思是放轻松但是不要着急