I left the field one evening my fingers so cold and sore 我离开现场的一个晚上我的手指那么冷和痛

From fair to middlin' cotton 300 pounds or more 从公平的middlin棉质300磅以上

Jim McCann was still pickin' straddle in the row 吉姆·麦肯仍然接下去该行中跨价买卖

The sun began to sinkin' and the wind began to blow 太阳开始沉没“风开始吹

   

He was bound to get 400 a draggin' a twelve foot sack 他一定会得到400 draggin “十二脚袋

I hollered out Jim come weight it but I only saw his back í叫喊了吉姆重来，但我只看到他的背影

So I went on home to supper and I gathered around my kin 于是我就回家吃晚饭，我围着我的亲人

I was thinkin' of Jim out there pickin' with winter settin' in 我当时想的吉姆在那里捡“在冬季设置搜索

   

Next morning the air was freezin' the snow was nine feet deep 第二天早晨，空气中freezin “雪是九英尺深

I jerked on my long red handles and I left my kids asleep 我抽出我的长红把手，我离开了我的孩子睡着了

I got myself a shovel and went to where I seen Jim go 我得到了我一把铁锹，走到那里我看到吉姆去

And commenced to a diggin' for him at the other end of his row 而在他行的另一端开始为他陷

   

I found his body frozen and I took him in to thaw 我发现他的尸体冷冻，我带他到解冻

I dragged in his sack and I weighed it and I added Jim's marks that I saw 我拖着他的口袋，我的体重也和我说，我看到了吉姆的标志

The total was over 400 so he'd picked more than he'd bet 总超过400 ，所以他会挑比他赌

Of fair to middlin' cotton but Jim ain't thawed out yet 的公平middlin棉质，但吉姆没有解冻出来呢