I looked upon the book of life 我看着在生命册上

Tracing the lines of face after face 追踪人脸脸后的行

Looking down at their naked feet 低头看着自己赤裸的脚

Bound in chains bound in chains 链子锁着链子锁着

Chains of leather chains of gold 金革链的链

We knew it was wrong but we looked away 我们知道这是错误的，但我们看着别处

And paraded them down the colonial streets 和游行下来的殖民地街道

And that's how they became enslaved 这就是他们如何成为奴役

   

They came across on the great ships 他们遇到的巨大战舰

Mothers separated from their babes 母亲从他们的婴孩分离

Husbands stood on the auction block 丈夫站在拍卖台上的

Bound in chains bound in chains 链子锁着链子锁着

Chains of leather chains of gold 金革链的链

Men knew it was wrong but they looked away 男人知道这是错误的，但他们看向别处

And led them to toil in fields of white 并带领他们在白色区域劳碌

As they turned their necks to a bitter landscape 当他们打开他们的脖子，以苦景观

   

Oh the people I hear them calling 哦，我听到人们叫他们

Am I not a man and a brother 我不是一个男人和一个兄弟

Am I not a woman and a sister 我不是一个女人和一个妹妹

   

History sends us such strange messengers 历史向我们发送这种奇怪的使者

They come down through time 他们下来，通过时间

To embrace to enrage 拥抱激怒

And in their arms even stranger fruit 而在他们的手臂更奇怪的水果

And they swing from the trees 他们从树上荡

With their vision in flames 凭借其在火焰的愿景

Ropes of leather ropes of gold 金革绳索绳索

Men knew it was wrong but they looked away 男人知道这是错误的，但他们看向别处

Messengers swinging from twisted rope 使者从扭绳摆动

As they turned their necks to a bitter landscape 当他们打开他们的脖子，以苦景观

   

Oh the people I hear them calling 哦，我听到人们叫他们

Am I not a man and a brother 我不是一个男人和一个兄弟

Am I not a woman and a sister 我不是一个女人和一个妹妹

r We will be heard we will be heard ř我们会听到，我们会听到