Old Black Joe-Douglas Jimerson

[00:00.760]Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,
年轻快乐的日子已经过去 [00:09.560]Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,
棉花田的伙伴们也都离去 [00:18.580]Gone from the earth to a better land I know,
从这尘世去向一个更好的地方 [00:26.900]I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
我听见他们在轻声呼唤 “老黑乔” [00:39.340]I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head is bending low:
我来了，我来了，我的背已不再挺拔 [00:49.080]I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe".
我听见他们在轻声呼唤 “老黑乔” [01:02.580]Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain
为什么流泪，我不应感到忧伤 [01:11.780]Why do I sigh that my friends come not again,
为什么叹息，朋友再也不能相见 [01:21.780]Grieving for forms now departed long ago.
我为那些早已逝去的人悲痛不已 [01:31.310]I hear their gentle voices calling “Old Black Joe”.
我听见他们在轻声呼唤 “老黑乔” [01:44.930]I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head is bending low:
我来了，我来了，我已渐渐老去 [01:54.960]I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe".
我听见他们在轻声呼唤 “老黑乔” [02:07.760]Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?
那些曾经快乐自由的人都去了哪里 [02:15.590]The children so dear that I held upon my knee,
曾被我抱在膝上的爱子 [02:25.110]Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go.
也已经去了我心向往的彼岸 [02:33.300]I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe".
我听见他们在轻声呼唤我 [02:46.960]I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head is bending low:
我来了，我来了，我已时日无多 [02:59.870]I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe"
我听见他们在轻声呼唤 “老黑乔”