I think I'm gonna call the Police, I hear something upstairs 我想我会打电话报警，我听到楼上东西

I know good and well there ain't nothing good going on up there 我知道好，那么有没有什么好去的那里

There's probably ten or more of them sittin' all around 有可能是10或更多的人正坐在四周

Smokin' that stuff and drinkin' that hard liquor down 斯莫的东西，喝了那烈性酒倒

   

I've been living in this city since the day I was born 我一直生活在这个城市，因为我出生那天

I've seen good times come and go and I've seen bad times drag on 我已经看到了美好的时光来来去去，我已经看到了坏的时候拖

I've seen white and black folks alike get treated just like sin 我已经看到了白色和黑色的乡亲都得到治疗，就像罪

And every year or so I see a new truck load of white trash movin' in 每一年左右我看到的白色垃圾往前一个新的卡车装载

   

When I was sixteen I had a little trouble with the law 当我十六岁那年我有一个小麻烦与法律

He said "Boy come here" I said "Boy yourself 他说： “孩子到这里来”我说：“小子你自己

I ain't done nothing wrong" 我是不是做错任何事“

He grabbed me by the arm and He went upside my head 他抓住我的胳膊，他又颠倒我的头

Nobody saw nothing 没有人看到什么

But I got a little spot where my hair ain't grown back yet 但我有在我的头发不长回来了一个小点

   

I used to have me a woman and a pretty fine home 我曾经有我一个女人，一个漂亮精致的家

But it took so much to keep them both going I was always out and gone 但花了这么多，让他们两个去，我总是出来，走了

I came home one afternoon to get me change of clothes 回到家后，我一个下午让我换洗的衣服

Caught a quick walkin' slick talkin' guitar picker 抓住一个快速走着滑头说吉他采摘

Headin' out my back door 航向我的后门

   

Now I'm proud to say I ain't never been no violent man 现在，我可以自豪地说我是不是从来没有暴力的人

But I'd sure be rotting in jail today if I'd had me a gun in my hand 不过我确实在今天腐烂在监狱里，如果我把我一把枪在我手中

I went inside threw her clothes on the floor and laid a suitcase across the bed 我去里面把她的衣服在地板上，整个床奠定了旅行箱

Not a word got spoke not a lick got throwed 没有一个字有辐条不是舔得到扔

And my woman ain't come back yet 而我的女人还没回来

   

Now I live in this building with the punks and the freaks 现在我住在这栋楼的小混混的怪胎

And I don't do much of nothing except go to work, come home, and drink 我也不做太多的什么，除了上班，回家，和饮料

So guitar man you done picked the wrong damn place to stay 所以吉他的人，你做选择了错误的该死的地方呆

I'm a feeble old man 我是一个衰弱的老人

You're a young smart-ass 你是一个年轻聪明的屁股

And there's a law-man on his way 还有的途中法律人