He started a company 他开了一家公司

When he was a young man 当他还是个年轻人

handsome, and like a reed so tall 帅的，像芦苇这么高

With a face like an old photograph 有了这样一张老照片一张脸

She would fall for him 她会爱上他

Fall for him 爱上他

She would fall 她将下降

   

She wore her mother's cocktail dress 她穿着她母亲的鸡尾酒裙

With saddle shoes 与鞍鞋

She was pretty and she was small 她很漂亮，她是小

She worked the switchboard 她曾交换机

Down the hall from him 下来从他身上大厅

Down the hall 在大厅

   

[Chorus:] [合唱： ]

He said: "Hello little woman" 他说： “你好小女人”

She said: "Hello big man" 她说： “你好大的男人”

And that was how the wooing 也就是如何在求爱

And the winning began 并且赢取的开始

He said: "Hello little woman" 他说： “你好小女人”

She said: "Hello big man" 她说： “你好大的男人”

   

Of course New York in those days 当然，纽约的那些日子

Was carriage rides and matinees 是马车和午后的演出

He took her to a ball 他把她带到一球

At the Waldorf Astoria 在华尔道夫

He would fall for her 他会爱上她

Fall for her, he would fall 爱上她，他将下降

   

[Chorus] [合唱]

   

You could hear them laugh 你可以听到他们笑

As they danced in their room 因为他们在自己的房间跳舞

And the shadows on the avenue 和大街上的阴影

Rose into a jealous moon 上升到一个嫉妒的月亮

Which swung low in the dawn like 它在黎明随即像低

To see what was going on with those two 看到与这两个是怎么回事

   

you keep on expecting 你一直在期待

Something to go wrong 东西出问题

And nothing does 并没有什么不

They still live in the house 他们还住在房子里

Where we were born 我们在哪里出生

Pictures of us kids 图片我们的孩子

Hanging up all over the walls 挂上墙上到处都是

   

And some say he built his empire 也有人说他建立他的帝国

For wealth and toil 对于财富和辛劳

But, if you ask him why 但是，如果你问他为什么

He'll say he did it all for her 他会说他这样做是为了她

All for her 一切为了她

All for her 一切为了她

   

[Chorus] [合唱]