歌词
1921 was the year
那是在1921年
Seems like yesterday to me
对我似乎就像昨天
Let me tell you about what happened then
让我告诉你当时发生了什么
Back in the mine country
回到那时的矿区
We were fightin’ hard to build a union
我们为建立工会而斗争
‘Cause at forty cents a ton
因为每吨40美分的价格
There was no way to feed a family
当每天的工作结束后
When the minin’ day was done
没办法养活一个家庭
The strike had lasted for a year
他们射杀斯米林·希德的时候
When they shot down Smilin’ Sid
罢工已经持续了一年
He was a lawman who stood up for us miners
他是个为我们矿工挺身而出的执法者
That’s the only crime he ever did
这是他唯一犯过的罪
A hundred miners locked up with no trial
一百名矿工未经审判被逮捕
There in Mingo-town
关在了明戈镇
But the last straw came in Sharples
但最后一根稻草在沙普斯
When they gunned the women down
就在他们枪杀妇女的时候
Now we’re marchin’ on to Mingo
我们正在向明戈镇进军
Ten thousand men and countin’
超过一万名矿工
Here in the hills of West Virginia
投身西弗吉尼亚的山丘
At the Battle of Blair Mountain
加入这布莱尔山之战
We shouted through the hillsides
我们的呐喊穿过山坡
In every union hall
回响在每个工会大厅
We’re marchin’ on to Mingo
我们正在向明戈镇进军
Teach them a lesson, once and all
一劳永逸给他们教训
Commandeered every freight train
我们征用了每辆货运列车
To the Kentucky line
直到肯塔基州线
Took every car that crossed our path
征用了每一辆与我们相交的汽车
And all the guns and ammo we could find
还有我们能找到的所有枪支弹药
The union leaders tried to stop us
工会领导人试图阻止我们
Mother Jones told us to turn back
琼斯妈妈劝说我们调头
But we had learned ourselves from the gun thugs
但我们已经从枪徒那里吸取教训
There’s a time to talk and a time to attack
是时候去反驳和进攻
We had no leader, we didn’t need one
我们没有领袖，但也不需要
We all knew the way through Logan County
我们都知道去洛根县的路
And we all knew once we got there
我们都知道一旦到了那里
We’re gonna hang Sheriff Chapin from a sour apple tree
要在酸苹果树上吊死查宾警长
We’re marchin’ on to Mingo
我们正在向明戈镇进军
Ten thousand men and countin’
超过一万名矿工
Here in the hills of West Virginia
投身西弗吉尼亚的山丘
At the Battle of Blair Mountain
加入这布莱尔山之战
For three days and nights we fought them
我们与他们战斗三天三夜
The front was ten miles wide
战线有十英里宽
Every cop and scab in West Virginia
西弗吉尼亚每个警察和工贼
Was there on the other side
都在阵营另一边
They dropped explosives from their airplanes
他们从飞机上投放炸药
Such a thing you never saw
这是你从未见过的事物
They shot us with machine guns
他们用机枪射击我们
It was the operator’s law
这就是老板的准则
We dug trenches and wore helmets
我们都挖着战壕
That we brought from the Argonne
头戴阿尔贡带来的头盔
All the way from France to Logan
一路从法国到洛根县
We fought from dusk to dawn
我们从黄昏打到黎明
President Harding sent in the Army
哈定总统派来了军队
And we left our line to them
我们会把战线留给他们
But the hills of West Virginia
但西弗吉尼亚的山丘
Will long remember when
将会长久地记得当年
We were marchin’ on to Mingo
我们曾经向明戈镇进军
Ten thousand men and countin’
超过一万名矿工
Here in the hills of West Virginia
投身西弗吉尼亚的山丘
At the Battle of Blair Mountain
加入这布莱尔山之战
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