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Old Black Joe

老黑喬

Stephen Collins. Foster

史蒂芬·柯林斯·福斯特

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

那些心頭年輕、無憂無慮的日子已離我遠(yuǎn)去

Gone are my friends from the cotton fields away;

我的伙伴也離開了棉花田

Gone from the earth to a better land I know,

離開這里到一個(gè)更好的地方，我知道

I hear their gentle voices calling, "Old Black Joe!"

我聽見他們?nèi)崧暫魡?/p>

I’m coming, I’m coming, for my head is bending low;

我來了，我來了，因?yàn)槲业念^漸漸低垂;

I hear their gentle voices calling,

我聽見他們?nèi)崧暫魡?/p>

"Old Black Joe!"

老黑喬!

Why do I weep when my heart should feel no pain?

我為何哭泣，我心并不悲傷?

Why do I sigh that my friends come not again?

我為何要嘆息伙伴不復(fù)來?

Grieving for forms now departed long ago,

只為懷念早已逝去的人，

I hear their gentle voices calling,

我聽見他們?nèi)崧暫魡?/p>

"Old Black Joe!"

老黑喬!

Where are the hearts once so happy and so free?

昔日快樂無羈的人們，如今安在?

The children so dear that I held upon my knee?

還有，我抱在膝上可愛的小家伙?

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

他們都已到了我靈魂所渴望去的海岸，

I hear their gentle voices calling,

我聽見他們?nèi)崧暫魡?/p>

"Old Black Joe!"

老黑喬!