- Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat 歌詞 Pete Seeger
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- Seven cent cotton an a forty cent meat
七分錢的棉花四十分的肉
How in the world can a poor man eat?
在這世上窮人何以果腹
Flour up high and cotton down low
麵粉飛漲棉花暴跌
How in the world can we raise the dough?
在這世上我們如何發得起面
Clothes worn out, shoes run down
衣爛鞋破
Ol slouch hat with a hole in the crown
帽簷上有個洞
Back nearly broken and fingers all sore
腰酸背痛手指抽筋
Cotton gone down to rise no more
棉花暴跌一蹶不振
Seven cent cotton an eight dollar pants
七分錢的棉花八塊錢的褲
Who in the world has got a chance?
在這世上誰還有機會
We cant buy clothes, we cant buy meat
我們買不起衣買不起肉
Too much cotton and not enough to eat
棉花太多吃的不夠
Cant help each other, whatll we do?
無法互助我們能咋辦
I cant explain it so its up to you
我沒法兒說所以看你的
Seven cent cotton and two dollar hose
七分錢的棉花兩塊錢的襪
Guess well have to do without any clothes
衣不蔽體我們能幹什麼
Seven cent cotton an a forty cent meat
七分錢的棉花四十分的肉
How in the world can a poor man eat?
在這世上窮人何以果腹
Mules in the barn no crop laid by
騾子在空蕩蕩的穀倉裡
Corn cribs empty and the cows gone dry
食槽空了奶牛也乾了
Well water low, nearly outta sight
井也快枯了幾乎看不到水
Cant take a bath on a Saturday night
週六晚都不能洗澡
No use talkin, any man is beat
說也沒用每個人都精疲力竭
With seven cent cotton an a forty cent meat
七分錢的棉花四十分的肉
Seven cent cotton an a forty cent meat
七分錢的棉花四十分的肉
How in the world can a poor man eat?
在這世上窮人何以果腹
Poor are gettin poorer all around here
在這裡窮人愈窮
Kids comin regular every year
孩子漸漸中用
Fatten our harvest, take into town
幫著豐收帶進城裡
All we get is six cents a pound
一磅只有六分錢
Very next day we have to buy it back
第二天我們就得買回來
Forty cents a pound in a paper sack
四十分一磅裝在袋子裡
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