I'd sing the Red River Valley and he'd sit in the kitchen and cry 我会唱红河谷，他会坐在厨房里哭

Run his fingers through seventy years of livin' 通过70年活着的“跑他的手指

Wonder Lord has every well I drilled ran dry 不知道上帝有充分以及我钻干涸

We were friends me and that old man 我们是朋友，我和那个老头

Like desperados waiting for the train like desperados waiting for the train 像亡命之徒等待像亡命之徒等待火车的火车

   

He's a drifter and a driller of oil wells and an old school man of the world 他是一个流浪汉和油井的钻机和一个老同学的男子世界

Taught me how to drive his car when he's too drunk to 教我如何驾驶他的车的时候，他太醉

And he'd wink and give me money for the girls 而且他会眨眼，给我钱的女孩

And our lives was like some old western movie 和我们的生活是像一些老西部电影

Like desperados waiting for the train like desperados waiting for the train 像亡命之徒等待像亡命之徒等待火车的火车

   

From the time that I could walk he take me with him 从我会走路的时候，他带我和他

To a place called the Green Frog Cafe 一个叫绿蛙咖啡的地方

There was old men with beer guts and dominos 有老男人用啤酒胆量和多米诺骨牌

Lyin' bout their lives while they'd play 说谎的回合他们的生活，而他们会玩

And I was just a kid that they all called his sidekick 而我只是个孩子，他们都被称为他的伙伴

Like desperados waiting for the train like desperados waiting for the train 像亡命之徒等待像亡命之徒等待火车的火车

   

Now I looked up and he was pushin' eighty 现在，我抬头一看，他推着80

And there's brown tobacco stains all down his chin 并有棕色的烟渍都顺着他的下巴

To me he's one of the heroes of this country 对我来说，他是这个国家的英雄之一

So why's he all dressed up like some old men 那么，为什么是他所有的打扮像一些老男人

Drinking beer and playing moon and 42 喝啤酒，打月亮和42

Like desperados waiting for the train like desperados waiting for the train 像亡命之徒等待像亡命之徒等待火车的火车

   

Then just before he died I went to see him I was grown and he was almost gone 然后就在他去世前我去看他，我长大了，他几乎走了

We just closed our eyes and dreamed us up a kitchen 我们刚刚结束我们的眼睛，我们梦想一个厨房

And sang another verse to that old song 并演唱另一首诗，以那首老歌

(Don't cry Jack it's only Jesus comin') （不要哭杰克，这只是耶稣科曼 ）

Like desperados waiting for the train like desperados waiting for the train 像亡命之徒等待像亡命之徒等待火车的火车

Like desperados waiting for the train 像亡命之徒等待火车