Talking Union-Pete Seeger

[ti:Talking Union] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:Rock Island Line] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Talking Union - Pete Seeger
以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供 [00:06.01]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 [00:08.16]You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you
你得和店里的工人谈谈 [00:10.48]You got to build you a union got to make it strong
你必须建立一个强大的联盟 [00:12.82]But if you all stick together for I won't be long
但如果你们团结一致我不会去太久 [00:15.11]You'll get shorter hours
你会缩短工作时间 [00:16.76] [00:18.04]Better working conditions vacations with pay
更好的工作条件带薪休假 [00:21.70]Take your kids to the seashore
带你的孩子去海边 [00:23.19] [00:24.09]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 [00:26.41]Just why you got to ride on the union train
为何你要坐上工会的列车 [00:28.84]'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay
因为如果你等着老板给你加薪 [00:31.18]We'll all be waiting till judgment day
我们会等到审判日 [00:33.34]We'll all he buried gone to heaven
我们会将他埋葬上天堂 [00:36.87] [00:38.17]Saint peter'll be the straw boss then
到时候圣人彼得会做个无名小卒 [00:40.17] [00:42.38]Now you know you're underpaid hut the boss says you ain't
现在你知道你的薪水很低但老板说你没有 [00:44.77]He speeds up the work till you're 'bout to faint
他加快速度直到你快要晕倒 [00:46.73]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 [00:49.03]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 [00:54.90] [00:56.12]Decide to do something about it
决定做点什么 [00:58.13] [00:59.82]'Course the boss may persuade some poor damn fool
当然老板可能会说服某个可怜的傻瓜 [01:02.19]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 [01:04.14]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 [01:06.26]He got a yellow streak running down his back
他背上有一条黄色的条纹 [01:08.43]He doesn't have to stool he'll always get long
他不必大便，他总是会变长 [01:12.70] [01:13.36]On what he takes out of blind mens cups
他从盲人杯子里拿出了什么 [01:15.69] [01:20.83]You got a union now you're sitting pretty
你有一个工会现在你过得很潇洒 [01:23.01]Put some of the boys on the steering committee
让一些男孩加入指导委员会 [01:25.34]The boss won't listen when one man squawks
当有人抱怨的时候老板不会听 [01:27.39]But he's got to listen when the union talks he better
但他必须认真倾听工会的谈话他会做得更好 [01:30.34] [01:31.43]He'll be mighty lonely everybody decided work out on here
他会非常孤独每个人都决定在这里工作 [01:36.78] [01:40.95]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 [01:43.42]They're paying you all starvation wages
他们给你们的工资都快饿死了 [01:45.56]You go to the boss and the boss would yell
你去找老板老板会大吼大叫 [01:47.32]Before I'd raise your pay I'd see you all in hell
在我给你加薪之前我会让你生不如死 [01:49.38]Well he's puffing a big segar and feeling mighty slick
他吞云吐雾感觉自己游刃有余 [01:51.79]He thinks he's got your union licked
他以为你的帮派被他打败了 [01:53.80]He looks out the window and what does he see
他望向窗外他看到了什么 [01:56.03]But a thousand pickets and they all agree
但是一千个纠察队员都同意 [01:58.22]He's a bastard unfair slave driver [02:04.51]Bet he beats his own wife
他肯定会打自己的老婆 [02:05.89] [02:09.66]Now boy you've come to the hardest time
现在男孩你已经到了最艰难的时刻 [02:12.07]The boss will try to bust your picket line
老大会试图突破你的防线 [02:14.04]He'll call out the police the national guard
他会叫来警察和国民警卫队 [02:16.32]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 [02:18.32]They'll raid your meeting hit you on the head
他们会突袭你的会场一击致命 [02:20.39]Thay're call every one of you a goddamn red
他们说你们每个人都是血帮人 [02:22.54]Unpatriotic japanese fats
不爱国的日本胖子 [02:26.85] [02:27.97]Save the talking national decides
拯救那些夸夸其谈的国家决定 [02:30.49] [02:32.63]But out in detroit here's what they found
但在底特律他们找到的是这样的 [02:34.98]And out in frisco here's what they found
这是他们在旧金山找到的东西 [02:37.14]And out in pittsburgh here's what they found
在匹兹堡这是他们的发现 [02:39.38]And down in bethlehem here's what they found
这是他们在伯利恒找到的东西 [02:41.27]That if you don't let red-baiting break you up
如果你不愿让别人伤害你 [02:43.44]And if you don't let stool pigeons break you up
如果你不让鸽子把你打垮 [02:45.71]If you don't let vigilantes break you up
如果你不让义警把你打得落花流水 [02:47.80]And if you don't let race hatred break you up
如果你不让种族仇恨将你击垮 [02:49.94]You'll win what I mean
你会胜利的我什么意思 [02:51.37]Take it easy but take it
放轻松但是不要着急