[00:00.00]Lyndon Johnson Told the Nation - Tom Paxton
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[00:08.50]I got a letter from L B J
[00:10.32]我收到了林登·B·约翰逊的信
[00:10.32]It said this is your lucky day
[00:12.34]信上说这是你的幸运日
[00:12.34]It's time to put your khaki trousers on
[00:16.41]是时候穿上你的卡其色军裤了
[00:16.41]Though it may seem very queer
[00:18.21]虽然这听起来很奇怪
[00:18.21]We've got no jobs to give you here
[00:20.24]我们这里没有工作给你
[00:20.24]So we are sending you to Vietnam
[00:24.42]所以我们把你送去越南
[00:24.42]Lyndon Johnson told the nation
[00:26.34]林登·约翰逊向全国宣告
[00:26.34]Have no fear of escalation
[00:28.12]不要害怕局势升级
[00:28.12]I am trying everyone to please
[00:32.47]我试图让每个人都满意
[00:32.47]Though it isn't really war
[00:34.13]尽管这并非真正的战争
[00:34.13]We're sending fifty thousand more
[00:36.18]我们却派出了五万多人
[00:36.18]To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese
[00:40.41]去帮助越南人拯救越南
[00:40.41]I jumped off the old troop ship
[00:42.29]我从旧军舰上跳下
[00:42.29]And sank in mud up to my hips
[00:44.19]陷入齐腰深的泥沼
[00:44.19]I cussed until the captain called me down
[00:48.35]我咒骂着，直到船长让我闭嘴
[00:48.35]Never mind how hard it's raining
[00:50.18]别管雨下得多大
[00:50.18]Think of all the ground we're gaining
[00:52.06]想想我们占领了多少土地
[00:52.06]Just don't take one step outside of town
[00:56.15]只要别踏出城镇一步
[00:56.15]Lyndon Johnson told the nation
[00:58.11]林登·约翰逊向全国宣告
[00:58.11]Have no fear of escalation
[01:00.12]不要害怕局势升级
[01:00.12]I am trying everyone to please
[01:04.09]我试图让每个人都满意
[01:04.09]Though it isn't really war
[01:05.98]尽管这并非真正的战争
[01:05.98]We're sending fifty thousand more
[01:08.00]我们却派出了五万多人
[01:08.00]To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese
[01:14.22]去帮助越南人拯救越南
[01:14.22]Every night the local gentry
[01:16.10]每晚当地的贵族
[01:16.10]Slip out past the sleeping sentry
[01:18.09]悄悄溜过沉睡的哨兵
[01:18.09]They go to join the old V see
[01:21.90]他们去加入老V
[01:21.90]In their nightly little dramas
[01:24.07]在他们每晚的小戏剧中
[01:24.07]They put on their black pajamas
[01:26.09]他们穿上黑色睡衣
[01:26.09]And come lobbing mortar shells at me
[01:29.90]然后向我投掷迫击炮弹
[01:29.90]When Lyndon Johnson told the nation
[01:32.09]当林登·约翰逊告诉全国
[01:32.09]Have no fear of escalation
[01:34.03]不要害怕局势升级
[01:34.03]I am trying everyone to please
[01:37.97]我试图让每个人都满意
[01:37.97]Though it isn't really war
[01:39.83]尽管这并非真正的战争
[01:39.83]We're sending fifty thousand more
[01:41.98]我们却派出了五万多人
[01:41.98]To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese
[01:48.22]去帮助越南人拯救越南
[01:48.22]We go round in helicopters
[01:49.84]我们乘坐直升机盘旋
[01:49.84]Like a bunch of big grasshoppers
[01:51.98]像一群巨大的蚱蜢
[01:51.98]Searching for the Viet Cong in vain
[01:56.06]徒劳地搜寻越共的踪迹
[01:56.06]They left a note that they had gone
[01:58.02]他们留下一张纸条，说他们已经离开
[01:58.02]They had to get down to Saigon
[01:59.96]他们必须前往西贡
[01:59.96]Their government positions to maintain
[02:03.90]为了维持他们的政府职位
[02:03.90]And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
[02:05.96]林登·约翰逊告诉国民
[02:05.96]Have no fear of escalation
[02:07.95]不要害怕局势升级
[02:07.95]I am trying everyone to please
[02:12.10]我试图让每个人都满意
[02:12.10]Though it isn't really war
[02:13.90]尽管这并非真正的战争
[02:13.90]We're sending fifty thousand more
[02:16.02]我们却派出了五万多人
[02:16.02]To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese
[02:21.93]去帮助越南人拯救越南
[02:21.93]Well here I sit in this rice paddy
[02:23.98]我坐在这片稻田里
[02:23.98]Wondering about big daddy
[02:25.96]想着那位大人物
[02:25.96]And I know that Lyndon loves me so
[02:30.06]我知道林登是爱我的
[02:30.06]Yet how sadly I remember
[02:31.82]但我悲伤地记得
[02:31.82]Way back yonder in November
[02:33.94]在很久以前的十一月
[02:33.94]When he said I'd never have to go
[02:37.70]他曾说我永远不必去
[02:37.70]And Lyndon Johnson told the nation
[02:39.94]林登·约翰逊告诉国民
[02:39.94]Have no fear of escalation
[02:41.90]不要害怕局势升级
[02:41.90]I am trying everyone to please
[02:45.89]我试图让每个人都满意
[02:45.89]Though it isn't really war
[02:47.69]尽管这并非真正的战争
[02:47.69]We're sending fifty thousand more
[02:49.85]我们却派出了五万多人
[02:49.85]To help save Vietnam from the Vietnamese
[02:54.08]去帮助越南人拯救越南