We Have Fed You All a Thousand Years-Utah Phillips

[00:10.04]We have fed you all for a thousand years
我们养了你们一千年 [00:14.88]And you hail us still unfed,
但是我们仍饥肠辘辘 [00:18.76]Though there's never a dollar of all your wealth
尽管你们的财富一文不值 [00:23.58]But marks the workers' dead.
但它代表着工人的死亡 [00:27.52]We have yielded our best to give you rest
我们屈服，让你们休息 [00:31.61]And you lie on crimson wool.
但你们却花天酒地 [00:35.33]Then if blood be the price of all your wealth,
如果让血泪做财富的代价 [00:40.25]Good God! We have paid it in full!
亲爱的上帝，我们已经彻底还清！ [00:44.29]There is never a mine blown skyward now
现在矿井里没有地雷会爆炸 [00:48.94]But we're buried alive for you.
但我们被你亲手埋葬 [00:52.74]There's never a wreck drifts shoreward now
现在没有沉船漂向海岸 [00:57.49]But we are its ghastly crew.
但我们是那糟糕的船员 [01:01.40]Go reckon our dead by the forges red
去看看我们受难 [01:05.31]And the factories where we spin.
和我们被压榨的工厂 [01:09.11]If blood be the price of your cursed wealth,
如果血是被诅咒的财富的代价 [01:14.03]Good God! We have paid it in!
亲爱的上帝，我们已经偿还！ [01:18.12]We have fed you all a thousand years-
我们养了你们一千年 [01:22.98]For that was our doom, you know,
这是我们悲惨的命运 [01:26.71]From the days when you chained us in your fields
从你给我们带上枷锁的日子 [01:31.60]To the strike a week ago.
到一周前的大罢工 [01:35.33]You have taken our lives, and our babies and wives,
你占领了我们的生命，我们的妻子与孩子 [01:39.36]And we're told it's your legal share,
但我们被告知那是“合法的分享” [01:42.96]But if blood be the price of your lawful wealth,
如果血是法律许可的财富的代价 [01:47.77]Good God! We bought it fair!
上帝啊，我们买的公平！