Forefathers (Album Version)

歌词

• Forefathers (Album Version) - Dan Fogelberg
• 以下歌词翻译由文曲大模型提供
• They came from Scandinavia the land of midnight sun
• 他们来自斯堪的纳维亚，那片午夜阳光照耀的土地
• And crossed the North Atlantic when this century was young
• 在本世纪之初，他们横渡北大西洋
• They'd heard that in America every man was free
• 他们听说在美国，每个人都享有自由
• To live the way he chose to live and be who he could be
• 可以按照自己的方式生活，成为想成为的人
• Some of them were farmers there and tilled the frozen soil
• 他们中有些是农民，在冻土上辛勤耕作
• But all they got was poverty for all their earnest toil
• 但所有的努力换来的只是贫困
• They say one was a sailor who sailed the wide world round
• 据说其中一人是水手，曾环游世界
• Made home port got drunk one night walked off the pier and drowned
• 却在归港后醉酒，失足坠入码头，溺水而亡
• My mother was of Scottish blood it's there that she was born
• 我的母亲流淌着苏格兰的血液 她出生在那片土地
• They brought her to America in 1924
• 1924年 他们将她带到了美国
• They left behind the highlands and the heather-covered hills
• 他们离开了高地 离开了石楠花覆盖的山丘
• And came to find America with broad expectant dreams and iron wills
• 怀着远大的梦想和钢铁般的意志 来到美国寻找新生活
• My granddad worked the steel mills of central Illinois
• 我的祖父在伊利诺伊州中部的钢铁厂工作
• His daughter was his jewel his son was just his boy
• 他的女儿是他的珍宝 儿子只是他的男孩
• For thirty years he worked the mills and stoked the coke-fed fires
• 三十年来 他在钢厂劳作 为焦炭炉添火
• And looked toward the day when he'd at last turn 65 and could retire
• 他期待着那一天 当他终于65岁 可以退休
• And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives
• 儿子们成为父亲，女儿们终将嫁作人妻
• As the torch is passed from hand to hand
• 火炬代代相传
• And we struggle through our lives
• 我们在生活中奋力前行
• Though the generations wander the lineage survives
• 尽管世代更迭，血脉依旧延续
• And all of us from dust to dust
• 我们所有人，从尘土归于尘土
• We all become forefathers by and by
• 终将成为后人的先祖
• The woman and the man were wed just after the war
• 战后，那对男女喜结连理
• And they settled in this river town and three fine sons she bore
• 他们在这河畔小镇安家，并育有三个优秀的儿子
• One became a lawyer and one fine pictures drew
• 一个成为律师，一个绘制精美的画作
• And one became this lonely soul
• 而一个成为了这个孤独的灵魂
• Who sits here now and sings this song to you
• 此刻坐在这里，为你唱这首歌
• And the sons become the fathers and their daughters will be wives
• 儿子们成为父亲，女儿们终将嫁作人妻
• As the torch is passed from hand to hand
• 火炬代代相传
• And we struggle through our lives
• 我们在生活中奋力前行
• Though the generations wander the lineage survives
• 尽管世代更迭，血脉依旧延续
• And all of us from dust to dust
• 我们所有人，从尘土归于尘土
• We all become forefathers by and by
• 终将成为后人的先祖

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