There goes Bobby Ray, Junior 那还有鲍比雷，少年

Pullin’ out of town 普林出城

Got his family in a U-Haul 得到了他的家人在一个U型牵引

They’re all sunbelt bound 他们都是Sunbelt的束缚

Another farm abandoned 另一种被遗弃的农场

They gave the land back to the wind 他们把土地回风

The price of fuel went up, corn went down 燃油价格上涨，玉米下跌

And I don’t think we’ll be seeing Bobby again 我不认为我们将再次看到鲍比

   

It’s a hard country 这是一个困难的国家

Last year the fields were all too wet to plow 去年，田都太湿耕

Hard country 硬的国家

And this year they say that it looks like a drought 而今年，他们说，它看起来像一个干旱

But I can’t leave 但我不能离开

My roots go deep in this hard country 我的根深入这个国家的硬

   

I’ve got a friend got a job in the city 我有一个朋友在城里找到了一份工作

Installing burglar alarms 安装防盗报警器

He says he’s makin’ real good money 他说，他是金真正的好钱

But I can tell he misses the farm 但我可以告诉他错过农场

He calls to ask how the crops are doin’ 他打电话问怎么作物干什么

I say we could use some rain 我说我们可以使用一些雨

Says his life is movin’ kinda fast 说他的生命往前还挺快

And I tell him out here things are always the same 我告诉他，在这里的东西都是一样的

   

Well the snow piles up in the winter 以及雪堆积在冬季

And the bugs come out in June 和虫子出来六月

But somehow, it’s all worth it 但不知何故，这一切都是值得的

When I see that harvest moon 当我看到那中秋之月