Some people think that America invented the blues 有些人认为，美国发明了蓝调

And few people doubt that America is the home of the blues 很少有人怀疑美国是蓝调的故乡

As the bluesicians have gone all over the world carrying the blues message 由于bluesicians已经在世界各地开展的蓝调消息

And the world has snapped its fingers and tapped its feet right along with the blues folks 已与世界上抢购了手指，拍了拍它的脚走过来的人布鲁斯

But, the blues has always been totally American 不过，蓝军一直完全美

As American as apple pie 由于美国的苹果馅饼

As American as the blues 由于美国的蓝调

As American as apple pie 由于美国的苹果馅饼

The question is why? 现在的问题是为什么呢？

Why should the blues be so at home here 为什么蓝调这么在家里在这里

Well, America provided the atmosphere 那么，美国提供的氛围

   

America provided the atmosphere for the blues and the blues was born 美国提供的氛围，为蓝调和布鲁斯出生

The blues was born on the American wilderness 布鲁斯出生在美国荒野

The blues was born on the beaches where the slave ships docked 布鲁斯出生在那里的奴隶船停靠海滩

Born on the slave man's auction block 天生的奴隶的人的拍卖台上

The blues was born and carried on the howling wind 布鲁斯出生在瑟瑟的寒风中进行

The blues grew up a slave 蓝调长大的奴隶

The blues grew up as property 蓝调长大财产

The blues grew up in Nat Turner visions 布鲁斯在纳特·特纳愿景长大

The blues grew up in Harriet Tubman courage 布鲁斯在哈里特的勇气长大

The blues grew up in small town deprivation 蓝调小城镇剥夺长大

The blues grew up in big city isolation 布鲁斯在大城市隔离长大

The blues grew up in the nightmares of the white man 布鲁斯在白人的噩梦长大

The blues grew up in the blues singing of Bessie and Billie and Ma 布鲁斯在贝茜和比利和马的蓝调歌声长大

The blues grew up in Satchmo's horn, on Duke's piano and Langston's poetry, on Robeson's baritone 布鲁斯在的Satchmo的号角长大，在杜克大学的钢琴和兰斯顿的诗歌，在罗伯逊的男中音

   

The point is 该点是

That the blues has grown 这蓝调增长

The blues is grown now, full grown 布鲁斯现在种植，生长完全

And you can trace the evolution of the blues 而且你可以跟踪蓝调的演变

On a parallel line with the evolution of this country 在这个国家的发展平行线

From Plymouth Rock to acid-rock 从普利茅斯岩石酸岩

From 13 states to Watergate 来自13个国家，以水门事件

The blues is grown 蓝调种植

But not the home 但不在家

The blues is grown 蓝调种植

But the country has not 但该国并没有

The blues remembers everything the country forgot 蓝调记得一切国家忘记

   

It's a bicentennial year and the blues is celebrating a birthday 这是一个两百周年和布鲁斯庆祝生日

And it's a bicentennial blues 这是一个二百年蓝调

   

America has got the blues and it's a bicentennial edition 美国已经拿到了蓝色，这是一个二百周年版

The blues view might amuse you 布鲁斯认为可能会逗你

But make no mistake, it's a bicentennial year 但毫无疑问，这是一个两百周年

A year of hysterical importance 歇斯底里的重要一年

A year of historical importance 历史意义的一年

   

Ripped off like donated moments from the past 扯掉像捐赠的时刻从过去

200 years ago this evening 200年前的今天晚上

200 years ago last evening 200年前的最后一个晚上

And what about now? 又是怎么回事呢？

The blues is now 布鲁斯现在

The blues has grown up and the country has not 布鲁斯已经长大了，国家也没有

The country has been ripped off 该国已被扯掉

Ripped off like the Indians 扯掉像印度人

Ripped off like jazz 扯掉喜欢爵士乐

Ripped off like nature 扯掉类似性质

Ripped off like Christmas 扯掉像圣诞节

Man-handled by media overkill 曼处理媒体矫枉过正

Goosed by aspiring vice presidents 由拟任副总统Goosed

Violated by commercial corporations 由商业公司侵犯

   

A bicentennial year à两百周年

The year the symbol transformed into the B-U-Y centennial 今年符号转化为购买一百周年

Buy a car 买车

Buy a flag 卖旗

Buy a map 买地图

Until the public in mass has been bludgeoned into bicentennial submission 直到市民大众已bludgeoned到二百年提交

Or bicentennial suspicion 或二百年的怀疑

I fall into the latter category 我跌倒后一类

It's a blues year 这是一个蓝调一年

And America has got the blues 和美国已经得到了蓝调

It's got the blues because of partial deification 它有因为部分神化蓝调

Of partial accomplishments 部分成绩

Over partial periods of time 随着时间的部分周期

   

Halfway justice 中途正义

Halfway liberty 半路自由

Halfway equality 中途平等

It's a half-ass year 这是一个半屁股年

   

And we would be silly in all our knowledge 而我们将是愚蠢的在我们所有的知识

In all our self-righteous knowledge 在我们所有的自以为是的知识

When we sit back and laugh and mock the things that happen in our lives 当我们坐下来，笑，嘲笑这种情况发生在我们生活中的事

To accept anything less than the truth 接受任何低于真相

About this bicentennial year 关于这两百周年

And the truth relates to 200 years of people and ideas getting by 而事实涉及到200年的人民和想法通过获取

   

It got by George Washington 它得到了由乔治·华盛顿

The ideas of justice, liberty and equality 正义，自由和平等的思想

Got cold by George Washington 由乔治·华盛顿临阵

Slave-owner general 奴隶主一般

Ironic that the father of this country 讽刺的是，这个国家的父亲

Should be a slave owner 应该是一个奴隶主

   

The father of this country a slave-owner 这个国家的奴隶主的父亲

Having got by him 已经得到了他

It made it easy to get by his henchman 这使得它很容易被他的心腹得到

The creators of this liberty 这个自由的创造者

Who slept in the beds with the captains of slave ships 谁在床睡了的奴隶船的船长

Fought alongside black freed men in the union army 并肩作战在联合军队的黑男子获释

And left America a legacy of hypocrisy 离开美国虚伪的遗产

It's a blues year 这是一个蓝调一年

   

Got by Gerald Ford 由杰拉尔德·福特得到

Oatmeal man 燕麦片的人

Has declared himself at odds 一直宣称自己有分歧

With people on welfare, people who get food stamps 随着人们对福利的人谁得到食品券

Day care children, the elderly, the poor, women 日间照顾儿童，老人，穷人，妇女

And people who might vote for Ronald Reagan 人们谁可能投票给里根

   

Ronald Reagan, it got by him 罗纳德·里根，但他得了

Hollyweird Hollyweird

Acted like a actor 行动像一个演员

Acted like a liberruuuuuuuulllzz lolz 行动像liberruuuuuuuulllzz LOLZ

Acted like General Franco when he acted like governor of California 行为像佛朗哥将军时，他表现得好像加州州长

Now he acts like somebody might vote for him for president 现在他就像有人可能投他一票的总统

   

It got by Jimmy Carter 它得到了卡特

Skippy 四季宝

Got by Jimmy Carter and got by him and his friend the colonel 由他和他的朋友上校由吉米·卡特得到了，得到了

The creators of southern-fried triple talk 南部炒三谈创造者

A blues trio 蓝调三人

America got the blues 美国得到了蓝调

   

It got by Henry Kissinger 它得到了亨利·基辛格

The international godfather of peace 和平的国际教父

A piece of Vietnam 一块越南

A piece of Laos 一块老挝

A piece of Angola 一块安哥拉

A piece of Cuba 一块古巴

   

A blues quartet 蓝调重唱

And America got the blues 和美国得到了蓝调

   

The point is that it may get by you 的一点是，它可以由你

For another 4 years 另一个4年

For another 8 years 另一个8年

You stuck 您卡住

Playing 2nd fiddle in a blues quartet 在蓝调四重奏演奏小提琴第二

   

Got the blues looking for the first principle 得到了布鲁斯找为先的原则

Which was justice 这是正义

It's a blues year for justice 这是一个蓝色的一年正义

   

It's a blues year for the San Quentin 6 这是一个蓝色的一年圣昆廷6

Looking for justice 寻找正义

   

It's a blues year for Gary Tyler 这是一个蓝色的一年加里·泰勒

Looking for justice 寻找正义

   

It's a blues year for Rev. Ben Chaves 这是一个蓝色的一年修订本·查韦斯

Looking for justice 寻找正义

   

It's a blues year for Boston 这是一个蓝色的一年波士顿

Looking for justice 寻找正义

   

It's a blues year for baby's on buses 这是一个蓝色的一年宝宝的公交车

It's a blues year for mothers and fathers with babies on buses 这是一个蓝色的一年父亲和母亲与婴儿在巴士上

It's a blues year for Boston 这是一个蓝色的一年波士顿

   

And it's a blues year all over this country 这是一个蓝调每年都超过这个国家

America has got the blues 美国已经拿到了蓝调

And the blues is in the street looking for the 3 principles 和布鲁斯是在街上寻找3原则

Justice, liberty and equality 正义，自由和平等

We would do well to join the blues looking for justice, liberty and equality 我们会很好地加入了蓝调寻找正义，自由和平等

   

The blues is in the street 布鲁斯是在大街上

America has got the blues 美国已经拿到了蓝调

But don't let it get by us. 但是不要让它由我们搞定。