Elijah came to Texas 以利亚来到德州

To build his family a home 要建立他的家人一个家

With his wife and new baby 他的妻子和新生婴儿

And what little goods that they owned 而且他们拥有什么样的小物品

Had a good yoke of oxen 牛有一个良好的枷锁

And hand tools for clearing the land 和手工工具清理土地

And he built him a church 和他建立他的教会

'Cause he was a God fearin' man 因为他是一个神fearin “人

   

All of his children when there 所有他的孩子时，

Worshiped here through the years 这里供奉通过几年

On down to my granddad 下来我的爷爷

He's buried 'bout 40 yards from here 他从这里埋葬回合40码

It's where I was baptized 这是我在那里受洗

And where I took me a wife 而且在这里我把我老婆

And if I have my say so 如果我有我说的那么

That's where I'll rest when it's time 这就是我休息的时候，它的时间

   

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When I'm dead and I'm gone 当我死了，我走了

Won't you carry me home 你不带我回家

To that little white church 那个小白色教堂

In my daddy's home town 在我爸爸的家乡

   

'Cause Lord knows I'm some kind of sinner [因为上帝知道我是某种罪人

But I've done come this far 不过，我已经做了走到这一步

And it's too late for changin' 而且它是为时已晚了变化“

When this race has been run 当这场比赛已运行

Take me back where I came from 带我回我从哪里来

And let me return what I took from the ground 而让我回到了我从地上爬了

When this body won't carry me no further 当这个身体会不会把我没有进一步的

Take me back 带我回去

And lay me down 而躺下

   

This east Texas red dirt 这个德克萨斯州东部红土

Won't grow much of nothin' they say 不会增长太多，他们说什么也没了“

'Cept tomatoes and peaches “ CEPT西红柿和桃子

They mostly drill for oil nowadays 他们大多钻探石油时下

And a hired hand named Regan 和雇工里根命名

First made me understand 首先让我明白了

And he told me the red was the blood of my kin in the land 他告诉我，红色是我的亲人的鲜血的土地

   

[Chorus] [合唱]