歌词
作词：John Lennon
作曲：John Lennon
If you had the luck of the Irish
如果你有爱尔兰人的运气
You'd be sorry and wish you were dead
你会难过的生不如死
You should have the luck of the Irish
你应该有爱尔兰人的运气
And you'd wish you was English instead!
而且你会希望你是个英国人
A thousand years of torture and hunger
一千年的折磨和饥饿
Drove the people away from their land
把他们从他们的土地上赶走
A land full of beauty and wonder
那片充满美丽与奇迹的土地
Was raped by the British brigands! Goddamn! Goddamn!
却被英国强盗掠夺！该死的，该死的
If you could keep voices like flowers
如果你发出的声音像花朵
There'd be shamrock all over the world
三叶草将会在世界各地盛开
If you could drink dreams like Irish streams
如果你啜饮梦想如同爱尔兰的溪流
Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn
这个世界就会像晨峰一样高耸
In the 'Pool they told us the story
在池中他们告诉我们这个故事
How the English divided the land
英国人如何瓜分这片土地
Of the pain, the death and the glory
这些痛苦，死亡和荣誉
And the poets of auld Eireland
还有古老的爱尔兰诗人
If we could make chains with the morning dew
如果我们将朝露编织成花环
The world would be like Galway Bay
这个世界就会像高威湾一般
Let's walk over rainbows like leprechauns
让我们像精灵一样在彩虹上漫步
The world would be one big Blarney stone
世界就会变成一块巨大的巧言石
Why the hell are the English there anyway?
为什么那些该死的英国人在那里
As they kill with God on their side
杀戮的同时还打着上帝的名义
Blame it all on the kids the IRA
把责难扔给爱尔兰共和军的孩子们
As the bastards commit genocide! Goddamn! Genocide!
那些混蛋们密谋着这场屠杀！该死的！屠杀！
If you had the luck of the Irish
如果你有爱尔兰人的运气
You'd be sorry and wish you was dead
你会难过的生不如死
You should have the luck of the Irish
你应该有爱尔兰人的运气
And you'd wish you was English instead!
而且你会希望你是个英国人
Yes you'd wish you was English instead!
而且你会希望你是个英国人
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