Talking Union - Pete Seeger 以下歌词翻译由微信翻译提供 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 You got to talk to the workers in the shop with you 你得和店里的工人谈谈 You got to build you a union got to make it strong 你必须建立一个强大的联盟 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 You'll get shorter hours 你会缩短工作时间 Better working conditions vacations with pay 更好的工作条件带薪休假 Take your kids to the seashore 带你的孩子去海边 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 Just why you got to ride on the union train 为何你要坐上工会的列车 'Cause if you wait for the boss to raise your pay 因为如果你等着老板给你加薪 We'll all be waiting till judgment day 我们会等到审判日 We'll all he buried gone to heaven 我们会将他埋葬上天堂 Saint peter'll be the straw boss then 到时候圣人彼得会做个无名小卒 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 He speeds up the work till you're 'bout to faint 他加快速度直到你快要晕倒 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 You can pass out a leaflet and call a meetin' 你可以散发传单召开会议 Talk it over speak your mind 好好谈谈吐露心声 Decide to do something about it 决定做点什么 '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 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 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 He got a yellow streak running down his back 他背上有一条黄色的条纹 He doesn't have to stool he'll always get long 他不必大便，他总是会变长 On what he takes out of blind mens cups 他从盲人杯子里拿出了什么 You got a union now you're sitting pretty 你有一个工会现在你过得很潇洒 Put some of the boys on the steering committee 让一些男孩加入指导委员会 The boss won't listen when one man squawks 当有人抱怨的时候老板不会听 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 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 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 They're paying you all starvation wages 他们给你们的工资都快饿死了 You go to the boss and the boss would yell 你去找老板老板会大吼大叫 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 Well he's puffing a big segar and feeling mighty slick 他吞云吐雾感觉自己游刃有余 He thinks he's got your union licked 他以为你的帮派被他打败了 He looks out the window and what does he see 他望向窗外他看到了什么 But a thousand pickets and they all agree 但是一千个纠察队员都同意 He's a bastard unfair slave driver Bet he beats his own wife 他肯定会打自己的老婆 Now boy you've come to the hardest time 现在男孩你已经到了最艰难的时刻 The boss will try to bust your picket line 老大会试图突破你的防线 He'll call out the police the national guard 他会叫来警察和国民警卫队 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 They'll raid your meeting hit you on the head 他们会突袭你的会场一击致命 Thay're call every one of you a goddamn red 他们说你们每个人都是血帮人 Unpatriotic japanese fats 不爱国的日本胖子 Save the talking national decides 拯救那些夸夸其谈的国家决定 But out in detroit here's what they found 但在底特律他们找到的是这样的 And out in frisco here's what they found 这是他们在旧金山找到的东西 And out in pittsburgh here's what they found 在匹兹堡这是他们的发现 And down in bethlehem here's what they found 这是他们在伯利恒找到的东西 That if you don't let red-baiting break you up 如果你不愿让别人伤害你 And if you don't let stool pigeons break you up 如果你不让鸽子把你打垮 If you don't let vigilantes break you up 如果你不让义警把你打得落花流水 And if you don't let race hatred break you up 如果你不让种族仇恨将你击垮 You'll win what I mean 你会胜利的我什么意思 Take it easy but take it 放轻松但是不要着急