Well if this old fiddle could talk 那么，如果这个老提琴会说话

If this old fiddle could sing 如果这个老提琴能唱

Man if this old fiddle could only talk 男人如果这个老提琴只能聊

It could tell you some wondrous things 它可以告诉你一些奇妙的事情

Talk to me fiddle 跟我说话的小提琴

   

Tell me about when you came across the sea 告诉我，当你来到隔海相望

In the hands of a Jewish immigrant who was longing to be free 在犹太移民的手中谁是渴望自由

And you were part of his life for forty years 而你是他生命中的一部分了四十年

Through times both lean and fat 经过双方多次瘦肉和脂肪

As he raised his family and lived out his days 当他举起他的家人住了他的日子

In a New York tenement flat 在纽约的唐平

Talk to me fiddle 跟我说话的小提琴

   

Tell me about how that Cajun fiddlin' man 告诉我怎么说印第安fiddlin “人

Found you in a pawn shop and took you back down 发现你在一个当铺，把你背下来

To the Louisiana bayou land 到路易斯安那州河口土地

You knew his wife and you knew his kids 你知道他的妻子，你知道他的孩子们

And you watched his family grow 而你看着他的家庭里成长

And you played your heart out Cajun style 和你打你的心脏了印第安风格

At the Louisiana Fais Do Do 在路易斯安那州FAIS做呢

Well talk to me fiddle 好吧我说话小提琴

   

Then a big shot Yankee gambler found you down in New Orleans 然后大人物洋基赌徒在新奥尔良找到你失望

And took you up the river on the Mississippi Queen 并把您的密西西比河女王河

Then there came the day that you were all 再有，你是所有的日子到了

That he had left to lose 他已经离开了输

And a black man won you in a poker game 和一个黑人男子在扑克游戏中赢了你

And taught you how to play the blues 教你如何玩蓝调

Cry for me fiddle 为我哭泣的小提琴

   

The a young man from the mountains of Kentucky came along 在一个年轻的男子从肯塔基州的山区来了

And he bought you for a dollar 他给你买一块钱

And took you all the way back home 并把你一路回家

He gave you to his grandpa on his golden wedding day 他给了你他的爷爷在他的黄金结婚的日子

And the people would come from miles around just to hear the old man play 和人民将来自各地的只是英里听到老头玩

Dance for me fiddle 舞小提琴

   

Then a hobo from Biloxi found you living in the rain 然后从比洛克西无业游民找到你居住在雨中

And he got himself a free ride on a west-bound cattle train 他给自己买了搭便车上西行的火车牛

And you got off in Texas 而你在德州下车

Where they play that western swing 在那里，他们打的西部摇摆

Where the people do the two-step 那里的人们做两步

And old Bob Wills was the king 老鲍勃·威尔斯是国王

Swing for me fiddle 摆动我的小提琴

   

If this old fiddle could talk 如果这个老提琴会说话

If this old fiddle could sing 如果这个老提琴能唱

Man if this old fiddle could only talk 男人如果这个老提琴只能聊

It could tell you some wondrous things 它可以告诉你一些奇妙的事情

You've been bouncing around America from sea to shining sea 你已经蹦跳着美国从岸到彼岸

Now your traveling days are over fiddle 'cause you belong to me 现在，您的旅行日子已经一去不复返了小提琴​​，因为你是属于我的