I was reading a magazine 我正在读一本杂志

And thinking of a rock and roll song 和思维的摇滚歌曲

The year was nineteen fifty six 这一年是一九五六年

And I hadn't been playing that long 我没有被打那么长的时间

   

When a man came on the radio 当一个人来到收音机

And this is what he said 这是他说的话

He said "I hate to break it to his fans" 他说：“我不想打破它给他的粉丝”

But Johnny Ace is dead, yeah, yeah, yeah 但约翰尼一点是死，是啊，是啊，是啊

   

Well, I really wasn't, such a Johnny Ace fan 好吧，我真的不是，这样的约翰尼一点风扇

But I felt bad all the same 但我觉得不好都一样

So I sent away for his photograph 所以，我送走了他的照片

And I waited till it came 我等到它来了

   

It came all the way from Texas 它一路走过来，从得克萨斯州

With a sad and simple face 带着忧伤，简单的面

And they signed it on the bottom 他们签署了在底部

From the late great Johnny Ace, yeah, yeah, yeah 从已故的伟大约翰尼一点，是啊，是啊，是啊

   

It was the year of the Beatles 这是甲壳虫乐队的一年

It was the year of the Stones 这是滚石乐队的一年

It was nineteen sixty four, I was living in London 这是一九六四年，我住在伦敦

With the girl from the summer before 从夏季前的女孩

   

It was the year of the Beatles 这是甲壳虫乐队的一年

It was the year of the Stones, a year after J.F.K 这是滚石乐队的一年，一年后J.F.K

We were staying up all night and giving the days away 我们都晚了几天的路程熬夜和给

And the music was flowing amazing and blowing my way 而音乐是流动惊人的，吹我的方式

   

On a cold December evening 在一个寒冷的晚上，月

I was walking through the Christmas tide 我走过的圣诞潮

When a stranger came up and asked me 当一个陌生人走过来问我

If I'd heard John Lennon had died 如果我听到约翰·列侬去世

   

And the two of us went to this bar 而且我们两个人去了这个酒吧

And we stayed to close the place 和我们住，关闭到位

And every song we played 而且每首歌我们打

Was for the late great Johnny Ace, yeah, yeah, yeah. 是为已故的伟大约翰尼一点，是啊，是啊，是啊。