I got my discharge from Fort Irwin 我得到了我放的欧文堡

Took a place on the San Diego county line 把一个地方的圣迭戈县行

Felt funny bein' a civilian again 觉得好笑拜因“又是一个平民

It'd been some time 这将会是一段时间

My wife had died a year ago 我的妻子一年前去世

I was still tryin' to find my way back whole 我还在试着找到回去的路全

Went to work for the INS on the line 去工作，移民局就行了

With the California border patrol 与加州边境巡逻

   

Bobby Ramirez was a ten-year veteran 鲍比·拉米雷斯是一个10岁的老将

We became friends 我们成了朋友

His family was from Guanajuato 他的家庭是从瓜纳华托

So the job it was different for him 因此，这项工作是不同的他

He said "They risk death in the deserts and mountains 他说： “他们冒着生命危险，在沙漠和山脉

Pay all they got to the smugglers rings 支付所有他们得到了走私分子环

We send 'em home and they come right back again 我们送时间回家，他们来到右后卫再次

Carl hunger is a powerful thing." 卡尔饥饿是一种强大的东西。 “

   

Well I was good at doin' what I was told 嗯，我擅长干什么我被告知

Kept my uniform pressed and clean 我不停地按压均匀，干净

At night I chased their shadows 晚上，我追着他们的影子

Through the arroyos and ravines 通过对阿罗约和沟壑

Drug runners farmers with their families 毒贩农民与他们的家人

Young women with little children by their sides 年轻妇女与小孩由他们双方

Come night we'd wait out in the canyons 快来晚上，我们都等在外面，在峡谷

And try to keep 'em from crossin' the line 并尽量保持时间从横穿而过“行

   

Well the first time that I saw her 以及第一次见到她

She was in the holdin' pen 她在牵着笔

Our eyes met and she looked away 我们的目光相遇，她把头扭

Then she looked back again 然后，她回头一看，又

Her hair was black as coal 她的头发是黑色的煤

Her eyes reminded me of what I'd lost 她的眼神提醒了我失去了我

She had a young child cryin' in her arms 她在她的怀里一个年轻的孩子哭泣

I asked "Señora is there anything I can do ?" 我问“塞诺拉有什么我可以做什么？ ”

   

There's a bar in Tijuana 有蒂华纳酒吧

Where me and Bobby drink alongside 凡我和鲍比一起喝

The same people we'd sent back the day before 我们会发回的前一天相同的人

She said her name was Louisa 她说，她的名字是露

She was from Sonora and had just come north 她是来自索诺拉和刚从北

We danced and I held her in my arms 我们跳舞，我在拥她入怀

And I knew what I would do 我知道我会做什么

She said she had some family in Madera county 她说，她有一些家庭在马德拉县

If she her child and younger brother could just get through 如果她自己的孩子，弟弟可能只是打通

   

At night they come across the levee 到了晚上，他们遇到了大堤

In the searchlight's dusty glow 在探照灯的光芒尘土飞扬

We'd rush 'em in our Broncos 我们会赶时间在我们的野马

Force 'em back down into the river below 迫使他们回来下到河里

She climbed into my truck 她爬进了我的卡车

She leaned toward me and we kissed 她俯身向我，我们亲吻

As we drove her brother's shirt slipped open 当我们驱车哥哥的衬衫溜开

And I saw the tape across his chest 我又看见在胸前的胶带

   

We were just about on the highway 我们只是在高速公路上

When Bobby's jeep come up in the dust on my right 当鲍比的吉普车上来的灰尘在我右边

I pulled over and let my engine run 我拉过来，让我的发动机运行

And stepped out into his lights ，走进了他的灯

I felt myself movin' 我觉得自己往前

My gun restin' 'neath my hand 我的枪的休眠照耀下我的手

We stood there starin' at each other 我们站在那里盯着“对方

As off through the arroyo she ran 由于关通过阿罗约她跑

   

Bobby Ramirez he never said nothin' 鲍比·拉米雷斯，他从来没有说过什么也没

Six months later I left the line 六个月后，我离开了线

I drifted to the central valley í漂流到中央山谷

And took what work that I could find 并且采取了哪些工作，我能找到

At night I searched the local bars 晚上，我找遍了当地的酒吧

And the migrant towns 而农民的城镇

Lookin' for my Louisa 看着他对我的路易莎

With the black hair fallin' down 与黑头发掉到下来