If you want higher wages

如果你想要更高的薪水

Let me tell you what to do

让我告诉你该怎么做

You got to talk to the workers

你得和工人谈谈

In the shop with you

和你在商店里

You got to build you

你得塑造自己

A union got to make it strong

一个联盟必须强大起来

But if you all stick

但如果你们坚持下去

Together boys it won't be long

团结一致男孩们很快就好

You'll get shorter hours

你会缩短工作时间

Better working conditions vacations with pay

更好的工作条件带薪休假

Take your kids to the seashore

带你的孩子去海边

It ain't quite this simple

没有这么简单

So I better explain

所以我最好解释一下

Just why you got to ride on the union train

为何你要坐上工会的列车

'Cause if you wait for the boss

因为如果你等着老大

To raise your pay

给你加薪

We'll all be waiting till Judgment Day

我们会等到审判日

We'll all he buried gone to Heaven

我们会将他埋葬上天堂

Saint Peter'll be the straw boss then

到时候圣人彼得会做个无名小卒

Now you know you're underpaid

现在你知道你的报酬太低了

Hut the boss says you ain't

但老板说你没有

He speeds up the work till you're 'bout to faint

他加快速度直到你快要晕倒

You may he down and out but you ain't beaten

你也许他穷困潦倒可你从未被打败

Pass out a leaflet and call a meetin'

散发传单召集大家开会

Talk it over speak your mind

好好谈谈吐露心声

Decide to do something about it

决定做点什么

'Course the boss may persuade

当然老板可能会劝说

Some poor damn fool

可怜的傻瓜

To go to your meeting and act like a stool

去参加你的会议并表现得像个凳子

But you can always tell

但你总能看出来

A stool though that's a fact

凳子虽然这是事实

He's got a yellow streak

他有一条黄色的条纹

Running down his back

紧追不舍

He doesn't have to stool

他不必大便

He'll always get along

他会永远和睦相处

On what he takes out of blind men's cups

他从盲人杯子里拿出了什么

You got a union now you're sitting pretty

你有一个工会现在你过得很潇洒

Put some of the boys on the steering committee

让一些男孩加入指导委员会

The boss won't listen when one man squawks

当有人抱怨的时候老板不会听

But he's got to listen

但他必须侧耳倾听

When the union talks he better

当工会发言时他会更好

He'll be mighty lonely

他孤独寂寞

Everybody decide to walk out on him

每个人都决定离他而去

Suppose they're working you

假设他们在欺骗你

So hard it's just outrageous

如此艰难令人难以置信

They're paying you all starvation wages

他们给你们的工资都快饿死了

You go to the boss and the boss would yell

你去找老板老板会大吼大叫

Before I'd raise your pay

在我给你加薪之前

I'd see you all in Hell

我会在地狱里见到你们

Well he's puffing a big seegar

他吞云吐雾

And feeling mighty slick

感觉妙不可言

He thinks he's got your union licked

他以为你的帮派被他打败了

He looks out the window

他望向窗外

And what does he see

他看到了什么

But a thousand pickets and they all agree

但是一千个纠察队员都同意

He's a bastard unfair slave driver

Bet he beats his own wife

他肯定会打自己的老婆

Now boy you've come to the hardest time

现在男孩你已经到了最艰难的时刻

The boss will try to bust your picket line

老大会试图突破你的防线

He'll call out the police the National Guard

他会叫来警察和国民警卫队

They'll tell you it's a crime

他们会告诉你这是犯罪

To have a union card

要有工会卡

They'll raid your meeting hit you on the head

他们会突袭你的会场一击致命

Call every one of you a goddamn Red

把你们每个人都叫做Red

Unpatriotic Japanese spies sabotaging national defense

不爱国的日本间谍破坏国防

But out at Ford here's what they found

但在福特外面他们发现了这样的情况

And out at Vultee here's what they found

这是他们在Vultee找到的东西

And out at Allis Chalmers

在AllisChalmers度假村

Here's what they found

这是他们的发现

And down at Bethlehem here's what they found

这是他们在伯利恒找到的东西

That if you don't let red baiting break you up

如果你不让那种东西把你摧毁

And if you don't let stoolpigeons break you up

如果你不让臭鸽子把你打得落花流水

And if you don't let vigilantes break you up

如果你不让义警把你打得落花流水

And if you don't let race hatred break you up

如果你不让种族仇恨将你击垮

You'll win

你会胜利的

What I mean take it easy but take it

我的意思是放轻松但是不要着急