I'd sing 'Red River Valley' 我会唱“红河谷”

He'd sit out in the kitchen and cry 他会坐在厨房和呐喊

Run his fingers through seventy years of livin' 通过70年活着的“跑他的手指

And wonder, Lord, has every well I drilled, gone dry? 和奇迹，上帝，每一个有很好我钻，有些发干的？

   

We was friends, me and this old man 我们是朋友，我和这个老男人

Like desperados waiting for a train 像亡命之徒等车

Like desperados waiting for a train 像亡命之徒等车

   

He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells 他是一个流浪汉和油井的钻

An old school man of the world 一个老派男人的世界

Taught me how to drive his car when he's too drunk to 教我如何驾驶他的车的时候，他太醉

And he'd wink and give me money for the girls 而且他会眨眼，给我钱的女孩

   

And our lives was like some old western movie 和我们的生活是像一些老西部电影

Like desperados waiting for a train 像亡命之徒等车

Like desperados waiting for a train 像亡命之徒等车

   

From the time I could walk he'd take me with him 从我会走路，他会带我一起去

To a place called the Green Frog Cafe 一个叫绿蛙咖啡的地方

And there was old men with beer guts and Dominos 并有老男人用啤酒胆量和多米诺

Lyin' 'bout their lives while they'd play 说谎回合他们的生活，而他们会玩

   

And I was just a kid they all called his sidekick 而我只是个孩子，他们都被称为他的伙伴

Like desperados waiting for a train 像亡命之徒等车

Like desperados waiting for a train 像亡命之徒等车

   

One day I looked up and he's pushin' eighty 有一天，我抬头一看，他推着80

And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin 并有棕色的烟渍都顺着他的下巴

To me he's one of the heroes of this country 对我来说，他是这个国家的英雄之一

So why's he all dressed up like them old men? 那么，为什么是他所有的打扮像他们一样老矣？

   

Drinkin' beer and playin' moon and forty two 喝醉啤酒和弹唱“月亮和42

Like desperados waiting for a train 像亡命之徒等车

Like desperados waiting for a train 像亡命之徒等车

   

The day before he died I went to see him 前一天，他死了我去看他

I was grown and he was almost gone 我在成长，他几乎走了

So we just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen 因此，我们刚刚结束我们的眼睛和我们的梦想了厨房

And sang another verse to that old song 并演唱另一首诗，以那首老歌

   

Right, Jack, that son of a bitch is comin' 没错，杰克，狗娘养的是儿子马上就要来

Like desperados waiting for a train 像亡命之徒等车

Like desperados waiting for a train, waiting 像亡命之徒等车，等

Like desperados waiting for a train 像亡命之徒等车