Our history runs down our rivers 我们的历史耗尽我们的河流

Down our rivers to the sea 下来我们的河流入海

Reminds us of the things that matter 想起那事的事情我们

Home and heart and history 家庭和心脏和历史

And all our sins will be forgiven 和我们所有的罪将被赦免

Washed away to set us free 冲走到我们自由

By the rivers that run through our homesteads 通过通过我们的家园运行的河流

By myth and modal melody 由神话和模态的旋律

   

I traced these rivers from the cities to the seas 我跟踪这些河流从城市到海洋

To remind me of what I already know 提醒我已经知道了我

I traced the shorelines through a thousand histories 我经历了千年的历史追溯的海岸线

To remind me an island is my home 提醒我的一个小岛就是我的家

An island is my home 一个岛就是我的家

   

I traveled far across this country 我前往远在这个国家

Northumberland to Southern Downs 诺森伯兰郡南部丘陵

I wandered up the rolling Humber 我徘徊了滚动亨伯

And down the Thames to London town 上下泰晤士河伦敦小镇

Countless lives were lived and lingered 无数的生命被生活和徘徊

In the cuts, swerves, and the fells 在削减，转了个弯，和荒原

I left a tapestry called England 我离开了一个叫英格兰挂毯

And life and those who lived it well 生活和那些谁住得很好

   

I traced these rivers from the cities to the seas 我跟踪这些河流从城市到海洋

To remind me of what I already know 提醒我已经知道了我

I traced the shorelines through a thousand histories 我经历了千年的历史追溯的海岸线

To remind me an island is my home 提醒我的一个小岛就是我的家

An island is my home 一个岛就是我的家

   

Round here the sky is a little closer 回合这里的天空是一点点接近

A little closer to the ground 一点点接近地面

It's hard for someone to get lost here 很难有人到这里迷失

Harder still to get found 更难得到发现

Though I've seen a thousand rivers 虽然我已经看到了一千河

From the Mississippi to the Rhine 从密西西比河到莱茵河

The only place that I'll lay my hat down 我会躺在我的帽子下来的唯一的地方

Is by an English riverside 是由英国河边

   

I traced these rivers from the cities to the seas 我跟踪这些河流从城市到海洋

To remind me of what I already know 提醒我已经知道了我

I traced the shorelines through a thousand histories 我经历了千年的历史追溯的海岸线

To remind me an island is my home 提醒我的一个小岛就是我的家

An island is my home 一个岛就是我的家

   

So place your trust into the sea 所以，把你的信任入海

It's kept us safe for centuries 它使我们的安全数百年

It shaped our shores and steadily 它塑造了我们的海岸和稳定

Its care has brought us, come 其护理也给我们带来了，来

When I die, I hope to be buried out in English seas 当我死了，我希望能在英语的海洋被埋没了

So all that then remains of me 因此，所有的话仍然是我的

Will lap against these shores 针对这些海岸意志圈

Until England is no more 直到英格兰不再是