老黑乔(美音)

Old Black Joe

by Stephen Collins Foster

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Gone are the days when my heart was young and gay,

那些心头年轻, 无忧无虑的日子已离我远去

Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away,

我的伙伴也离开了棉花田

Gone from the earth to a better land I know,

离开这里到一个更好的地方, 我知道,

I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe."

我听见他们柔声呼唤!

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I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low:

我来了, 我来了, 因为我的头渐渐低垂;

I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe."

我听见他们柔声呼唤, 老黑乔!

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Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain

我为何哭泣, 我心并不悲伤?

Why do I sigh that my friends come not again,

我为何要叹息伙伴不复来?

Grieving for forms now departed long ago?

只为怀念早已逝去的人,

I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe."

我听见他们柔声呼唤, 老黑乔!

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I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low:

我来了, 我来了, 因为我的头渐渐低垂;

I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe."

我听见他们柔声呼唤, 老黑乔!

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Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?

昔日快乐无羁的人们, 如今安在?

The children so dear that I held upon my knee,

还有, 我抱在膝上可爱的小家伙?

Gone to the shore where my soul has longed to go.

他们都已到了我灵魂所渴望去的海岸,

I hear their gentle voices calling "Old Black Joe."

我听见他们柔声呼唤, 老黑乔!

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I'm coming, I'm coming, for my head is bending low:

我来了, 我来了, 因为我的头渐渐低垂;

I hear those gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe."

我听见他们柔声呼唤, 老黑乔!