- Pete Seeger Talking Union 歌詞
- Pete Seeger
- If you want higher wages, let me tell you what to do;
想要提高工資嗎？我教你怎麼做
You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you;
你要和與你一起在店里工作的同事們談一談
You got to build you a union , got to make it strong,
你們應當建立自己的工會並讓它成長壯大起來
But if you all stick together, now, 'twont he long.
如果你們能夠團結起來那麼用不了多久
Youll get shorter hours,
你們的工時就能縮短
Better working conditions.
工作條件也會改善
Vacations with pay,
還有帶薪休假
Take your kids to the seashore.
這樣你就有空帶著孩子們去海邊散散心
It aint quite this simple, so I better explain
當然凡事沒有這麼輕鬆我再詳細地說一說
Just why you got to ride on the union train;
說說為什麼你們必須搞工會
'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay, Well all be waiting till Judgment Day;
都知道如果乾等著老闆給你漲工資恐怕得等到世界末日
Well all he buried - gone to Heaven -
等所有人統統上天堂
Saint Peterll be the straw boss then .
到時候聖彼得就是咱的好工頭
Now, you know youre underpaid, hut the boss says you aint;
你覺得你現在的待遇很不怎麼樣但老闆說已經很好了
He speeds up the work till youre 'bout to faint,
他要你快馬加鞭直到你累得昏過去
You may he down and out, but you aint beaten,
你或許會被他整得精疲力盡但不要認輸
Pass out a leaflet and call a meetin
你要散發傳單組織集會
Talk it over - speak your mind -
開誠佈公地說出你的訴求
Decide to do something about it.
並下決心做點什麼
'Course, the boss may persuade some poor damn fool To go to your meeting and act like a stool;
要小心老闆收買的那些走狗他們可能會混進來搞破壞
But you can always tell a stool, though - thats a fact;
但那些走狗其實很好分辨
Hes got a yellow streak running down his back;
那些畏首畏尾的人就是了
He doesnt have to stool - hell always make a good living
因為他們不想鬥爭- 他們已經養尊處優了
On what he takes out of blind mens cups.
他們早就靠出賣良心大賺了一筆
You got a union now; youre sitting pretty;
工會組織起來之後
Put some of the boys on the steering committee.
要設立一個委員會
The boss wont listen when one man squawks .
老闆不屑聽一個人的抱怨
But hes got to listen when the union talks.
但如果工會想找他談談他就會老實得多
He better -
畢竟老闆還是識時務的
Hell be mighty lonely one of these days.
你或許可憐他覺得工會搞得他眾叛親離
Suppose theyre working you so hard its just outrageous,
但想想老闆肆意壓榨你的那些日子
Theyre paying you all starvation wages;
只付給你勉強糊口的工資
You go to the boss, and the boss would yell,
你去找老闆他只會大罵說
'Before Id raise your pay Id see you all in Hell.' Well, hes puffing a big see-gar and feeling mighty slick,
“要我給你漲工資不如讓我下地獄” - 多麼傲慢和霸道啊
He thinks hes got your union licked.
他以為他給了工會一個下馬威
He looks out the window, and what does he see
但等他看到窗外成群的工人糾察隊（譯註：指防止工賊破壞罷工的工會成員）時他就學乖了
But a thousand pickets, and they all agree
大家都知道
Hes a bastard - unfair - slave driver -
老闆不過是個淨想著壓榨你的奴隸主罷了
Bet he beats his own wife.
他肯定還打老婆呢
Now, boy, youve come to the hardest time;
同志們接下來就是最艱難的環節
The boss will try to bust your picket line.
老闆要沖垮你們的罷工封鎖線
Hell call out the police , the National Guard;
他會叫來警察和國民警衛隊
Theyll tell you its a crime to have a union card.
他們會宣布工會非法
Theyll raid your meeting, hit you on the head.
會突擊搜查工會會議讓你受皮肉之苦
Call every one of you a goddamn Red -
把你們打成赤匪
Unpatriotic - Japanese spy-
說你們賣國是日本法西斯的間諜
Bomb throwers, even the kids.
污衊你們搞恐怖襲擊連小孩也不放過
But out in Detroit heres what they found,
儘管他們有如此種種手段但看看底特律的鬥爭
And out in Frisco heres what they found,
看看舊金山的鬥爭
And out in Pittsburgh heres what they found,
看看匹茲堡的鬥爭
And down in Bethlehem heres what they found,
再看看伯利恆的鬥爭
That if you dont let Red-baiting break you up,
你就會知道只要抵制住老闆的收買
If you dont let stool pigeons break you up,
只要不讓工賊的離間計得逞
If you dont let vigilantes break you up,
只要不懼怕老闆的流氓打手
And if you dont let race hatred break you up -
只要不讓種族仇恨分裂大家
Youll win. What I mean,
你們就能贏的勝利是的
Take it easy - but take it!
放輕鬆- 但不要大意！
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