Chicago is where the woman downstairs 芝加哥是，该名女子下楼

Starved herself to death last summer 饿死自己死亡，去年夏天

Her boyfriend Ted ate hot dogs and wept 她的男友特德吃热狗和哭泣

With the gray rats out on the fire escape 用灰色老鼠出来的火灾逃生

   

In a thrift store chair I drank cases of beer 在旧货店的椅子，我喝啤酒病例

And dreamed of laying down on the El tracks 并梦想放下对厄尔尼诺轨道

The trains roared by under smoke-gray skies 列车在烟灰色的天空大吼了

Lake Michigan rose and fell like a bird 密歇根湖起起落落像一只鸟

   

And when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue 并且当风尖叫起来阿什兰大道

The corner bars were full by noon 街角的酒吧充满了中午

And the old stewbums sliding down their stools 和老stewbums往下滑的凳子

Ate boiled eggs and fed beer to the dogs 吃煮鸡蛋和啤酒喂养的狗

   

The woman downstairs lost all her hair 该女子下楼失去了所有的头发

And wore a beret in the laundryroom 和穿在laundryroom贝雷帽

I borrowed her soap and bought her a Coke 我借她的肥皂为她买了可乐

But she left it on a dryer 但她离开它放在烘干机

   

She died in June weighing 82 她于六月重82死

Her boyfriend went back to New York 她的男友又回到了纽约

The cops wandered through her dusty rooms 警察在她的房间布满灰尘逛到

One of them stole her TV 其中一人偷走了她的电视

   

And when the wind screamed up Ashland Avenue 并且当风尖叫起来阿什兰大道

The corner bars were full by noon 街角的酒吧充满了中午

And the old stewbums sliding down their stools 和老stewbums往下滑的凳子

Ate boiled eggs and fed beer to the dogs 吃煮鸡蛋和啤酒喂养的狗