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[00:06.10]At the turning of the century I was a boy of five.
当世纪之交到来时，我还是一个五岁的男孩。 [00:12.36]Me father went to fight the Boers and never came back alive.
我父亲去和布尔人作战，它没能活着回来。 [00:18.20]Oh me mother was left to bring us up, no charity she'd seek,
于是母亲留下来抚养我们，她从不寻求任何施舍， [00:23.10]So she washed and scrubbed and scrapped along on seven and six a week.
于是她不停地洗啊洗啊，一周六七天满手褶。 [00:29.10]When I was twelve I left the school and went to find a job,
在我十二岁的时候，我辍学去找工作， [00:35.32]With growin' kids my ma was glad of the extra couple of bob.
我妈对孩子们的长大很高兴，多几个子儿会让日子好过。 [00:41.24]I sure that longer schooling would would stood me in good stead,
虽然我相信更长的学习时间肯定会对我有好处， [00:46.55]But you can't afford refinements when you're struggling for your bread.
但当你要为生计挣扎时，还怎能想在学习上投入。 [00:53.27]And when the Great War came along I didn't hesitate,
当第一次世界大战爆发时，我没有丝毫犹豫， [00:58.78]I took the royal shilling and went off to do my bit.
我拿了皇家军饷，尽我的本分上了战场去。 [01:04.09]We fought in mud and tears and blood three years or thereabout,
我们在泥泞、泪水和鲜血中战斗了三年左右， [01:09.79]Till I copped some gas in Flanders and was invalided out.
直到我在佛兰德斯弄得一身毒气，最后被我的战友所救。 [01:16.37]And when the war was over and we'd finished with the guns,
后来战争结束了，我们以为再也不用碰枪了， [01:21.85]We got back into civvies cause we thought the fighting done.
我们回到文明社会，我们觉着斗争已经结束了。 [01:27.61]We won the right to live in peace but we didn't have no luck,
我们赢得了在和平中生活的权利，但我们却没这福分， [01:32.33]For soon I found I had to fight for the right to go to work.
因为不久我就发现，我得为干活的权利而继续斗争。 [01:43.81]In 'twenty-six the General Strike saw me out on the street, 1926
年的那场大罢工使我不得不露宿街头， [01:48.96]And I'd a wife and kids by then and their needs I had to meet.
那时我已经有了妻子和孩子，我得满足他们的需求。 [01:55.20]Oh a brave new world was coming and the brotherhood of man,
看来那美丽的新世界和人类的兄弟情谊就要来临了， [02:00.40]But when the strike was over we were back where we began.
可当罢工结束后，我们又回到了开始的地方。 [02:07.00]I struggled through the 'Thirties out of work now and again,
我在三十多岁时，曾再一度丢了工作， [02:11.82]I saw the Black Shirts marching and the things the did in Spain.
我看到黑衫军在游行，看到了他们在西班牙的所做。 [02:17.61]But I raised my children decent and I taught them wrong from right,
但我把我的孩子们抚养得体面，教导他们明辨是非， [02:22.51]Oh Hitler was the boy that came and he taught them how to fight.
可希特勒那个臭小子非要跑过来，教他们怎么去打仗。 [02:29.74]We daughter was a land girl, she got married tae a Yank,
我们的女儿是个土姑娘，她嫁给了一个美国佬， [02:35.24]They gave my son a gong for stopping one of Rommel's tanks.
他们给了我女婿一个奖章，因为他搞掉了隆美尔的一辆坦克。 [02:40.96]He was wounded just before the end and convalesced in Rome,
就在战斗结束前他受了伤，并在罗马康复了， [02:46.38]He want to married a Italian nurse and never bothered to come home.
他想娶一位意大利护士为妻，并再也不想回家了。 [02:54.12]My daughter writes me once a month a cheerful little note,
我女儿每月给我写来一封令人愉快的短信， [02:58.85]About their colour telly and the other things they've got.
信上写着她们的彩色电视机和其他小玩意。 [03:04.01]She got a son, a likely lad, he's nearly twenty-one,
她有个儿子，一个可爱的小伙，快二十一岁了， [03:09.30]Now they tell me now he's being called up to fight in Vietnam.
而现在她们告诉我，他要被征召去越南打仗了。 [03:16.44]We're living on the Pension now and it doesn't go too far,
我们现在靠养老金过活，这生活还算过得去， [03:21.85]Not much to show for a life that seems like one long bloody war.
对一个一生都在血腥的战争中度过的人来说，没什么值得炫耀的。 [03:28.21]When you think of all the wasted lives it makes you want to cry,
可当你想到所有被牺牲的生命，这真的会让你想大哭， [03:34.06]I not sure how to change things but by Christ we'll have tae try.
我不知道怎样才能改变现状，但老天，我们必须得试一试。
当世纪之交到来时，我还是一个五岁的男孩。 [00:12.36]Me father went to fight the Boers and never came back alive.
我父亲去和布尔人作战，它没能活着回来。 [00:18.20]Oh me mother was left to bring us up, no charity she'd seek,
于是母亲留下来抚养我们，她从不寻求任何施舍， [00:23.10]So she washed and scrubbed and scrapped along on seven and six a week.
于是她不停地洗啊洗啊，一周六七天满手褶。 [00:29.10]When I was twelve I left the school and went to find a job,
在我十二岁的时候，我辍学去找工作， [00:35.32]With growin' kids my ma was glad of the extra couple of bob.
我妈对孩子们的长大很高兴，多几个子儿会让日子好过。 [00:41.24]I sure that longer schooling would would stood me in good stead,
虽然我相信更长的学习时间肯定会对我有好处， [00:46.55]But you can't afford refinements when you're struggling for your bread.
但当你要为生计挣扎时，还怎能想在学习上投入。 [00:53.27]And when the Great War came along I didn't hesitate,
当第一次世界大战爆发时，我没有丝毫犹豫， [00:58.78]I took the royal shilling and went off to do my bit.
我拿了皇家军饷，尽我的本分上了战场去。 [01:04.09]We fought in mud and tears and blood three years or thereabout,
我们在泥泞、泪水和鲜血中战斗了三年左右， [01:09.79]Till I copped some gas in Flanders and was invalided out.
直到我在佛兰德斯弄得一身毒气，最后被我的战友所救。 [01:16.37]And when the war was over and we'd finished with the guns,
后来战争结束了，我们以为再也不用碰枪了， [01:21.85]We got back into civvies cause we thought the fighting done.
我们回到文明社会，我们觉着斗争已经结束了。 [01:27.61]We won the right to live in peace but we didn't have no luck,
我们赢得了在和平中生活的权利，但我们却没这福分， [01:32.33]For soon I found I had to fight for the right to go to work.
因为不久我就发现，我得为干活的权利而继续斗争。 [01:43.81]In 'twenty-six the General Strike saw me out on the street, 1926
年的那场大罢工使我不得不露宿街头， [01:48.96]And I'd a wife and kids by then and their needs I had to meet.
那时我已经有了妻子和孩子，我得满足他们的需求。 [01:55.20]Oh a brave new world was coming and the brotherhood of man,
看来那美丽的新世界和人类的兄弟情谊就要来临了， [02:00.40]But when the strike was over we were back where we began.
可当罢工结束后，我们又回到了开始的地方。 [02:07.00]I struggled through the 'Thirties out of work now and again,
我在三十多岁时，曾再一度丢了工作， [02:11.82]I saw the Black Shirts marching and the things the did in Spain.
我看到黑衫军在游行，看到了他们在西班牙的所做。 [02:17.61]But I raised my children decent and I taught them wrong from right,
但我把我的孩子们抚养得体面，教导他们明辨是非， [02:22.51]Oh Hitler was the boy that came and he taught them how to fight.
可希特勒那个臭小子非要跑过来，教他们怎么去打仗。 [02:29.74]We daughter was a land girl, she got married tae a Yank,
我们的女儿是个土姑娘，她嫁给了一个美国佬， [02:35.24]They gave my son a gong for stopping one of Rommel's tanks.
他们给了我女婿一个奖章，因为他搞掉了隆美尔的一辆坦克。 [02:40.96]He was wounded just before the end and convalesced in Rome,
就在战斗结束前他受了伤，并在罗马康复了， [02:46.38]He want to married a Italian nurse and never bothered to come home.
他想娶一位意大利护士为妻，并再也不想回家了。 [02:54.12]My daughter writes me once a month a cheerful little note,
我女儿每月给我写来一封令人愉快的短信， [02:58.85]About their colour telly and the other things they've got.
信上写着她们的彩色电视机和其他小玩意。 [03:04.01]She got a son, a likely lad, he's nearly twenty-one,
她有个儿子，一个可爱的小伙，快二十一岁了， [03:09.30]Now they tell me now he's being called up to fight in Vietnam.
而现在她们告诉我，他要被征召去越南打仗了。 [03:16.44]We're living on the Pension now and it doesn't go too far,
我们现在靠养老金过活，这生活还算过得去， [03:21.85]Not much to show for a life that seems like one long bloody war.
对一个一生都在血腥的战争中度过的人来说，没什么值得炫耀的。 [03:28.21]When you think of all the wasted lives it makes you want to cry,
可当你想到所有被牺牲的生命，这真的会让你想大哭， [03:34.06]I not sure how to change things but by Christ we'll have tae try.
我不知道怎样才能改变现状，但老天，我们必须得试一试。
