You know you've done enough when every bone is sore 你知道你已经做得足够时，每根骨头酸痛

You know you've prayed enough when you don't ask any more 你知道你已经够祈祷时，你不问任何更多

You know you're coming to some kind of understanding 你知道你来了某种默契

When every dream you've dreamed has passed and you're still standing 当你的梦想是每一个梦想已经过去了，你还站在

Mama says god tends to every little skinny sheep 妈妈说，上帝往往每个小瘦羊

So count your ribs and say your prayers and get to sleep 所以指望你的肋骨，说你的祷告，让睡觉

Nothing is louder to god's ears than a poor mans sorrow 没有什么是更响亮上帝的耳朵比一个贫穷的男人的悲哀

Daddy is poor today and he will be poor tomorrow 爸爸今天是穷人，他将在明天不佳

   

Hey that's the poor man's house 嘿，这就是穷人的房子

Everybody get a look at the poor man's house 大家赶快来看看这个可怜的男人的家

Everywhere they went before must have turned them out 所到之处之前必须把它们列

And now they're living in a poor man's house 而现在，他们正生活在一个贫穷的人的家

   

There's nothing like poverty to get you into heaven 有没有像贫困，让你进入天堂

They got a lot of wine and fish up there 他们得到了很多的酒和鱼在那里

And the bread's unleavened 而面包的酵

They got a lot of ears that heard a whip go crack 他们得到了很多耳朵听到鞭子去破解

Lots of missing toes and fingers and scars upon their backs 许多在他们的背上缺少脚趾和手指和疤痕

Daddy's been working too much for days and days 爸爸一直工作太多了好多天

He doesn't eat 他不吃饭

He never says much but I think this time it's got him beat 他从来不说太多，但我认为这一次的让他打

It isn't that he isn't strong or kind or clever 这并不是说他不强或实物或聪明

Your daddy's poor today 你爸爸今天的穷人

And he will be poor forever 他将是永远的穷人

   

Tey that's the poor man's house 泰伊这就是穷人的房子

Those kids are living in a poor man's house 这些孩子生活在一个贫穷的人的家

They walk to school with the soles of their shoes worn out 他们步行到学校与他们的鞋子磨损的鞋底

And come home in the evening to the poor man's house 而回家，晚上给穷人的房子

   

What are you chopping that wood for 什么是你砍的柴

Why are you growing that corn 你为什么越来越多的玉米

Mama's sewing a brand new shirt and 妈妈缝制了一个全新的衬衫，

You're wearing the one that's torn 你穿的是撕开一个

I guess it's for some one elses kid who wasn't born 我想这是对谁不是天生有人偷别人的孩子

In a poor man's house 在一个穷人家

   

Hey take a look at that house 嘿，看看那家

Everybody we're living in a poor man's house 每个人，我们正生活在一个贫穷的人的家

Seems like everywhere we go they find us out 好像我们走到那里，他们找到我们了

Find out that we've been living in a poor man's house 发现，我们已经生活在一个贫穷的人的家