16 years old when I went to the war, 当我到了战争16岁，

To fight for a land fit for heroes, 争取土地适合英雄，

God on my side, and a gun in my hand, 上帝在我身边，在我手中的枪，

Chasing my days down to zero, 追我的天下降到零，

And I marched and I fought and I bled 我游行和我打，我流血

And I died & I never did get any older, 我就死了 - 我从来没有得到任何年龄的增长，

But I knew at the time, That a year in the line, 但我知道在当时，这一年的路线，

Was a long enough life for a soldier, 是一个足够长的寿命的士兵，

We all volunteered, 我们都主动请缨，

And we wrote down our names, 我们写下我们的名字，

And we added two years to our ages, 我们增加了两个年我们的年龄，

Eager for life and ahead of the game, 渴望生活和游戏的未来，

Ready for history's pages, 准备好历史的页面，

And we brawled and we fought 我们brawled和我们打

And we whored 'til we stood, 我们whored ，直到我们站，

Ten thousand shoulder to shoulder, 一万比肩，

A thirst for the Hun, 渴了匈奴，

We were food for the gun, and that's 我们的食品换枪，这是

What you are when you're soldiers, 你是什么，当你的士兵，

I heard my friend cry, 我听我朋友哭了，

And he sank to his knees, coughing blood 他沉入了他的膝盖，咳血

As he screamed for his mother 当他尖叫为他的母亲

And I fell by his side, 我就俯伏在他身边，

And that's how we died, 这就是我们怎么死的，

Clinging like kids to each other, 像小孩子一样紧紧地抱住对方，

And I lay in the mud 我躺在泥

And the guts and the blood, 而且胆量和血，

And I wept as his body grew colder, 我哭了他的身体越来越冷，

And I called for my mother 我打电话给我妈

And she never came, 她没有来，

Though it wasn't my fault 虽然这不是我的错

And I wasn't to blame, 我并没有责怪，

The day not half over 一天不超过半

And ten thousand slain, and now 和10000被杀了，现在

There's nobody remembers our names 有没有人记得我们的名字

And that's how it is for a soldier. 这就是它如何是一名军人。