Ballad For Americans - Paul Robeson (罗伯逊)
In seventy-six the sky was red
Thunder rumbling overhead
Bad King George couldn't sleep in his bed
And on that stormy morn Ol' Uncle Sam was born
Some birthday
Ol' Sam put on a three cornered hat
And in a Richmond church he sat
And Patrick Henry told him that while
America drew breath
It was "Liberty or death "
What kind of hat is a three-cornered hat
Did they all believe in liberty in those days
Nobody who was anybody believed it
Ev'rybody who was anybody they doubted it
Nobody had faith
Nobody Nobody but Washington Tom Paine
Benjamin Franklin
Chaim Solomon Crispus Attucks
Lafayette Nobodies
The nobodies ran a trea party at Boston
Betsy Ross
Organized a sewing circle
Paul Revere had a horse race
And a little ragged group believed it
And some gentlemen and ladies believed it
And some wise men and some fools
And I believed it too
And you know who I am
No Who are you mister Yeah how come all this
Well I'll tell you
No let us tell you
Mister Tom Jefferson a mighty fine man
He wrote it down in a mighty fine plan
And the rest all signed it with a mighty fine hand
As they crossed thier T's and dotted their I's
A bran' new country did arise
And a mighty fine idea
"Adopted unanimously in Congress July 4 1776
We hold these truths to be self-evident
That all men are created equal
That they are endowed by their
Creator with certain inalienable rights
That among these rights are Life
Yes sir Liberty That's right
And the pursuit of happiness
Is that what they said The very words
That does sound mighty fine
Building a nation is awful tough
The people found the going rough
Some lived in cities some worked the land
And united they did stand
To make our country grand
Still nobody who was anybody believed it
Everybody who anybody they stayed at home
But Lewis and Clarke and the pioneers
Driven by hunger haunted by fears
The Klondike miners and the forty niners
Some wanted freedom and some wanted riches
Some liked to loaf while others dug ditches
But they believed it And I believed it too
And you know who I am
No who are you anyway Mister
Well I started to tell you
Let my people go That's the idea
Old Abe Lincoln was thin and long
His heart was high and his faith was strong
But he hated oppression he hated wrong
And he went down to his grave to free the slave
A man in white skin can never be free
While his black brother is in
Slavery
"And we here highly resolve that
These dead shall not have died in vain
And this government of the people
By the people and for the people
Shall not perish from the Earth "
Abraham Lincoln said that on November 19
1863 at Gettysburg Pennsylvania
And he was right I believe that too
Say we still don't know who you are mister
Well I started to tell you
The machine age came with a great big roar
As America grew in peace and war
And a million wheels went around and 'round
The cities reached into the sky
And dug down deep into the ground
And some got rich and some got poor
But the people carried through
So our country grew
Still nobody who was anybody believed it
Everybody who was anybody they doubted it
And they are doubting still
And I guess they always will
But who cares what they say whem I am on my way
Say will you please tell us who you are
What's your name Buddy Where you goin'
Who are you
Well I'm the everybody who's nobody
I'm the nobody who's everybody
What's your racket What do you do for a living
Well I'm an
Engineer musician street cleaner carpenter
Teacher
How about a farmer Also Office clerk Yes sir
That's right (Homemaker ) Certainly
Factory worker You said it (Mail carrier )
Yes ma'am
(Hospital worker ) Absotively (Social worker )
Posolutely
Truck driver Definitely
Miner seamstress ditchdigger all of them
I am the "etceteras" and the "and so forths"
That do the work
Now hold on here what are you trying to give us
Are you an American
Am I an American
I'm just an Irish (African) Jewish Italian
French and English Spanish Russian Chinese
Polish
Scotch Hungarian (Jamaican) Swedish Finnish
(Dominican) Greek and
Turk and Czech
And (Native American)
And that ain't all
I was baptized Baptist Methodist
Congregationalist Luthern
Atheist Roman Catholic (Moslem) Jewish
Presbyterian Seventh Day
Adventist
Mormon Quaker Christian Scientist and lots more
You sure are something
Our country's strong our country's young
And her greatest songs are still unsung
From her plains and mountains we have sprung
To keep the faith with those who went before
We nobodies who are anybody belive it
We anybodies who are everybody have no doubts
Out of the cheating out of the shouting
It will come again
Strong as the people who made it
For I have always believed it
And I believe it now
And now you know who I am
Who are you
America America
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