The Ballad Of Ira Hayes - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什)

Ira Hayes Ira Hayes Call him drunken Ira Hayes

爱尔兰共和军海耶斯说他喝醉了

He won't answer anymore

他不会回答你

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian

不是那个喝威士忌的印第安人

Nor the Marine that went to war

也不是去参军的水手

Gather round me people there's a story I would tell

都到我旁边来，我要讲一个故事

About a brave young Indian you should remember well

关于一个人人都应铭记的勇敢的印第安年轻人

From the tribe of the Pima Indian

他来自印第安皮马

A proud and peaceful band

一个高傲又高尚的地方

Who farmed the Phoenix valley in Arizona land

他们在美国亚利桑那州的凤凰谷耕种

Down the ditches for a thousand years

在那里挖了千年的水渠

The water grew Ira's peoples' crops

将水引到爱尔兰人的庄稼地里

'Till the white man stole the water rights

直到白人剥夺了使用水的权利

And the sparklin' water stopped

闪闪而过的水流被截断了

Now Ira's folks were hungry

爱尔兰人民现在正忍受饥饿

And their land grew crops of weeds

他们的土地里种着谷物的种子

When war came Ira volunteered

战争来临时，他自告奋勇

And forgot the white man's greed

忘记了白人的贪婪

Call him drunken Ira Hayes

爱尔兰共和军海耶斯说他喝醉了

He won't answer anymore

他不会回答你

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian

不是那个喝威士忌的印第安人

Nor the Marine that went to war

也不是去参军的水手

There they battled up Iwo Jima's hill

他们在山上战斗

Two hundred and fifty men

有两百五十个士兵

But only twenty-seven lived to fight back down again

只有二十七个幸存了下来

And when the fight was over

当战争结束时

And when Old Glory raised

当国旗升起来的时候

Among the men who held it high

将它高高举起的人

Was the Indian Ira Hayes

就是印第安人，爱尔兰共和军海耶斯

Call him drunken Ira Hayes

爱尔兰共和军海耶斯说他喝醉了

He won't answer anymore

他不会回答你

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian

不是那个喝威士忌的印第安人

Nor the Marine that went to war

也不是去参军的水手

Ira returned a hero

爱尔兰共和军变成了英雄归来

Celebrated through the land

举国庆祝

He was wined and speeched and honored;

他喝酒，演讲，被赋予荣耀

Everybody shook his hand

人们都与他握手

But he was just a Pima Indian

但他只是一个皮马印第安人

No water no crops no chance

没水，没庄稼，没有机会

At home nobody cared what Ira'd done

在家里没人在意他做了什么

And when did the Indians dance

也不管印第安人何时起舞

Call him drunken Ira Hayes

爱尔兰共和军海耶斯说他喝醉了

He won't answer anymore

他不会回答你

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian

不是那个喝威士忌的印第安人

Nor the Marine that went to war

也不是去参军的水手

Then Ira started drinkin' hard;

他开始酗酒

Jail was often his home

他经常入狱

They'd let him raise the flag and lower it

他们让他不停地升旗降旗

Like you'd throw a dog a bone

就像用骨头逗狗一样

He died drunk early one mornin'

他酗酒过多而死亡

Alone in the land he fought to save

独自一人死在他为之战斗的土地上

Two inches of water in a lonely ditch

可怜的水渠里只有两英寸高的水

Was a grave for Ira Hayes

那就是爱尔兰共和军海耶斯的坟墓了

Call him drunken Ira Hayes

爱尔兰共和军海耶斯说他喝醉了

He won't answer anymore

他不会回答你

Not the whiskey drinkin' Indian

不是那个喝威士忌的印第安人

Nor the Marine that went to war

也不是去参军的水手

Yeah call him drunken Ira Hayes

爱尔兰共和军海耶斯说他喝醉了

But his land is just as dry

他的土地也一样的干涸

And his ghost is lyin' thirsty

他的灵魂在渴求着

In the ditch where Ira died

在他死去的水渠里