I grew up along way from here 我从小就沿着路从这里开始

I slept with the lights on for fifteen years 我睡在十五年的灯

And Sabbath kept me home on Friday nights 与安息日让我回家上周五晚

and Daddy sang me Rodgers 爸爸给我唱了罗杰斯

just to make everything alright 只是为了让一切好起来

My town wasn't even on the map 我镇甚至没有在地图上

You could pass right through it in twenty seconds flat 你可以在二秒内通过它传递正确的

But the south was like the whole world to me 但南方就像整个世界对我来说

it wasn't easy to stay but it was harder to leave 这是不容易留下，但它是难以离开

   

Yeah I was a south bound child 是啊，我是南行的孩子

Yeah I had a small town life 是的，我有一个小镇生活

But I turned out alright in the north 不过，我在北方横空出世好吗

Livin' that southern kind of life 活着是南方的生活

   

Old friends and bibles filled the house 老朋友圣经充满了殿

no room for money and no money anyhow 没房要钱没钱，无论如何

deprived was something we always heard 被剥夺了的东西，我们总是听说

but to me and my brother it was just another word 但对我和我的弟弟，这只是一个字

   

I use to think the north was the end 我用以为北方是结束

Cause people go there and they don't come back again 引起人们去那里，他们不回来

but my father's father was a man of the sea 但我父亲的父亲是大海的男人

He lived a southern life two blocks away from me 他住南部的生活两个街区离我而去

   

Yeah I was a south bound child 是啊，我是南行的孩子

Yeah I had a small town life 是的，我有一个小镇生活

But I turned out alright in the north 不过，我在北方横空出世好吗

Livin' that southern kind of life 活着是南方的生活

   

Yeah I was a south bound child 是啊，我是南行的孩子

Yeah I had a small town life 是的，我有一个小镇生活

But I turned out alright in the north 不过，我在北方横空出世好吗

Livin' that southern kind of life 活着是南方的生活