I'd play the Red River Valley 我玩红河谷

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

Run his fingers through seventy years of living and wonder 通过70年生活和奇迹的运行他的手指

Lord, has every well I drilled gone dry 主啊，每天都有好我钻了干

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

Desperados waiting for the train 亡命之徒等待火车

Desperados waiting for the train. 亡命之徒等待火车。

   

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

And an old school man of the world 和一个老同学的男人世界

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

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

Like desperados waiting for the train 像亡命之徒等待火车

Like desperados waiting for the train. 像亡命之徒等待火车。

   

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

To a bar called the Green Frog Cafe 一个酒吧叫做绿蛙咖啡馆

There was old men with beer guts playin' dominos 有老男人用啤酒胆量在玩“多米诺骨牌

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

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

Like desperados waiting for the train 像亡命之徒等待火车

Like desperados waiting for the train. 像亡命之徒等待火车。

   

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

There's brown tobacco stains all down his chin 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男人

Drinking beer and playing moon and 42 喝啤酒，打月亮和42

Like desperados waiting for the train 像亡命之徒等待火车

Like desperados waiting for the train. 像亡命之徒等待火车。

   

Just before he died I went to see him 就在他去世前我去看他

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

So we closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen 因此，我们关闭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

He said come on Jack I swear this time it's comin' 他说，来吧杰克，我发誓这一次它的坠落

And we're desperados waiting for the train 我们正在亡命之徒等待火车

We're desperados waiting for the train. 我们是亡命之徒等火车。

   

We're desperados waiting for the train... 我们是亡命之徒等待火车...