The Grave-Don McLean

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Don McLean [00:00.37]The grave that they dug him had flowers [00:05.81]Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors, [00:11.37]And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone. [00:16.87]He's gone. [00:29.19]When the wars of our nation did beckon, [00:33.75]A man barely twenty did answer the calling. [00:38.31]Proud of the trust that he placed in our nation, [00:42.66]He's gone, [00:45.64]But Eternity knows him, and it knows what we've done. [00:55.39]And the rain fell like pearls on the leaves of the flowers [01:03.00]Leaving brown, muddy clay where the earth had been dry. [01:09.84]And deep in the trench he waited for hours, [01:16.18]As he held to his rifle and prayed not to die. [01:24.74]But the silence of night was shattered by fire [01:30.66]As guns and grenades blasted sharp through the air. [01:37.20]And one after another his comrades were slaughtered. [01:42.93]In morgue of Marines, alone standing there. [01:50.09]He crouched ever lower, ever lower with fear. [01:57.06]They can't let me die! The can't let me die here! [02:00.98]I'll cover myself with the mud and the earth. [02:06.72]I'll cover myself! I know I'm not brave! [02:13.28]The earth! the earth! the earth is my grave. [02:49.78]The grave that they dug him had flowers [02:55.29]Gathered from the hillsides in bright summer colors, [03:00.69]And the brown earth bleached white at the edge of his gravestone. [03:08.63]He's gone.