I was born in '37, a sharecropper's son 我出生在37一个佃农的儿子

Out on the great south plains 出的巨大平原南部

There in the suburbs of a dryland cotton patch 有在旱地棉花补丁郊区

In the middle of a west Texas rain 在西得克萨斯雨中间

   

And for all of you folks out there in radioland 并为所有的人，你在那里的radioland

who don't know what a West Texas rain is, 谁也不知道什么是西得克萨斯雨，

Well that's what's commonly known as a sandstorm 那么这是什么俗称沙尘暴

Remember that, you'll need it later 请记住，你以后会需要它

   

I guess times were hard but livin' was easy 我想日子过得很艰难，但活着的话是很容易

We always found a way to survive 我们总能找到一条血路

Fried chicken and gravy and an old tune off the guitar 炸鸡和肉汁和一个老调重弹了吉他

Was enough to keep a country boy alive 足以让一个国家的男孩还活着

   

And on Saturday afternoons it was Lester Pruitt's "The Picture Show" 周六下午是莱斯特·普鲁特的“照片秀”

On Saturday's nights is the Grand Ol' Uproar from Nashville Tennessee, take it away boys 上周六的晚上是大OL “从田纳西州的纳什维尔沸沸扬扬，把它拿走男孩

   

Lookin' back now and thinkin' it over 回首现在想的是过

Life was like an old country song 生命就像一个古老的乡村歌曲

My mama taught me the melody and daddy taught me the chords 我妈妈教我的旋律和爸爸教我的和弦

I made the words up on my own 我做的话在我自己的

   

And sometimes it didn't rhyme, but they always had a reason, 有时候它并没有押韵，但他们总是有一个理由，

Even if it was unbeknownst to no one but myself 即使是不知道的任何人，但我自己

I guess all that west Texas sand in my crawl, that's what make me so mean 我想所有的德克萨斯州西部沙在我的爬行，这就是让我这样的意思

I'd bet I was the only boy ever expelled from Sunday school 我敢打赌，我是唯一的男孩曾经从周日学校开除

Lover, fighter, wild-horse rider, and purty dern good windmill maker 情人，战士，野生马骑手和俊俏惬意良好的风车制造商

Look out world, here I come 看出来的世界，我来了