There's a place your mother goes when everybody else is soundly sleeping 这是你的妈妈去当别人都在熟睡的地方

Through the lights of beacon street 通过对灯塔街的灯

And if you listen you can hear her weeping, 如果你听，你可以听到她哭，

She's weeping, cause the gentlemen are calling 她的哭泣，引起嘉宾呼吁

And the snow is softly falling on her petticoats. 和雪轻轻地飘落在她的衬裙。

And she's standing in the harbour 而她站在港

And she's waiting for the sailors in the jolly boat. 她在等待，在菜市场买菜的船水手。

See how they approach 看看他们是如何对待

   

With dirty hands and trousers torn they grapple 'til she's safe within their keeping 用肮脏的手和裤子撕破他们搏斗，直到她自己保持在安全的

A gag is placed between her lips to keep her sorry tongue from any speaking, or screaming 插科打诨放在她的嘴唇之间让她难过的舌头从任何说话或尖叫

And they row her out to packets where the sailor's sorry racket calls for maidenhead 他们排她出去的数据包，其中水手的遗憾球拍要求梅登黑德

And she's scarce above the gunwales when her clothes fall to a bundle and she's laid in bed on the upper deck 而她的稀缺上面的船舷时，她的衣服掉下来捆绑和她躺在床上对上层

   

And so she goes from ship to ship, her ankles clasped, her arms so rudely pinioned 于是她从船去船，她的脚踝紧紧地握住她的手臂那么粗鲁pinioned

'Til at last she's satisfied the lot of the marina's teeming minions, and their opinions 直到最后她满足了很多码头的拥挤的爪牙，他们的意见

   

And they tell her not to say a thing to cousin, kindred, kith or kin or she'll end up dead 他们告诉她，不是说一个东西表弟，亲情，骨肉或亲属或她最终会死

And they throw her thirty dollars and return her to the harbour where she goes to bed, and this is how your fed 他们把她30块钱，回到她那里，她上床睡觉的海港，这是你如何喂养

   

So be kind to your mother, though she may seem an awful bother, and the next time she tries to feed you collard greens, 所以，要善待你的母亲，虽然她看似可怕的麻烦，下一次，她会尝试喂你吃羽衣甘蓝，

Remember what she does when you're asleep 还记得她做什么，当你睡着了