It's only when the high winds blow that I wish my hair was long 只有当强风吹，我想我的头发很长

Sailing through the autumn leaves singing an ancient song 航行通过叶秋唱的古老歌曲

Or falling in love in the streets at night at the edge of a local square 或夜间坠入爱河，在街头，在当地的广场边上

It's only that I'm here tonight thinking I was there 只是，我在这里想今晚我在那里

   

There are high winds on the pier tonight, my soul departs from me 还有在码头上，今晚大风，我的灵魂从我离开

Striding like Thalia's ghost south on the murky sea 像塔利亚的鬼魂大踏步南下的阴暗海

And into midnight's tapestry she fades, ragged and wild 进入午夜的挂毯，她变淡，衣衫褴褛，野

Searching down her ancestry in the costume of a Persian child 搜索了她的祖先在波斯儿童服装

   

And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon 和海湾的风把我的飞鱼闪耀的新月

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew 让我看看地平线那里的黎明将重新突破

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low 凉爽我在这里在这个孤独的码头所在的鹭飞低

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico 回声的歌我父亲知道在墨西哥小镇

   

When I was young my eyes were wise, my father was good to me 我年轻的时候我的眼睛是明智的，我的父亲对我很好

Instead of having a flock of sons he had two other girls and me 而不是有儿子了一群他有另外两个女孩和我

And if we had used our Spanish names, here's the way they'd run 如果我们用了我们的西班牙名字，这里的他们会运作方式

Thalia, Margarita and Juanita, I'm the middle one. 塔利亚，玛格丽塔和胡安妮塔，我是中间的一个。

   

The screen door kept the demons in as we moved from town to town 纱门保持了恶魔，因为我们从城里搬到城里

It's hard to be a princess in the States when your skin is brown 很难在美国公主当你的皮肤是棕色的

And mama smoothed my worried brow as I leaned on the kitchen door 和妈妈平滑我担心的眉头，我靠在厨房的门

Why do you carry the weight, she said, of the world and maybe more? 为什么你随身携带的重量，她说，世界上，也许更多？

   

And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon 和海湾的风把我的飞鱼闪耀的新月

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew 让我看看地平线那里的黎明将重新突破

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low 凉爽我在这里在这个孤独的码头所在的鹭飞低

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico 回声的歌我父亲知道在墨西哥小镇

   

My grandfathers were ministers and it came on down the line 我的祖父是部长和它来了就下了线

My father preached in his parents' church when he was ten years and nine 我的父亲传给他的父母教会时，他是十年九

And mama dressed in parishoners' clothes and didn't believe in hell 和妈妈穿着parishoners的衣服，不信地狱

Her daddy fought the DAR, if he'd lived I'd have known him well 她的爸爸打的DAR ，如果他还活着，我想知道他的好

   

They said go find a Sunday School, we must have tried them all 他们说，去找到一个主日学，我们必须把它们都试过

I never stole from the silver plate, my sisters had more gall 我从来没有从银盘偷走了，我的姐妹们有更多的胆

One preacher said sing out loud and clear, it's the only life you've got 一位传道人说，大声地唱出来，清晰，这是你所拥有的唯一生命

And the next one said be good on earth, you've another life at the feet of God 而下一个说好地球上，你在神的脚已经另一种生活

   

And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon 和海湾的风把我的飞鱼闪耀的新月

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew 让我看看地平线那里的黎明将重新突破

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low 凉爽我在这里在这个孤独的码头所在的鹭飞低

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico 回声的歌我父亲知道在墨西哥小镇

   

My father turned down many a job just to give us something real 我的父亲拒绝了很多工作只是给我们一些真正的

It's hard to be a scientist in the States when you've got ideals 很难在美国的科学家，当你有理想

And mama kept the budget book, she kept the garden, too 和妈妈不停的预算书，她不停地在花园里

Bought fish from the man on Thursday, fed all of us and strangers, too 上周四买的鱼的人，所有喂过我们和陌生人，太

   

But time will pass and so, alas, will most of what we know 但时间会过去，所以，唉，将大部分我们所知道的

Though tonight my memory's eye is clear as the story's being told 虽然今晚我的记忆的眼睛是清澈如故事的被告知

And I'll play ball with the underdog and sit with the child who's wrong 我会玩球的劣势，坐在一起的孩子是谁的错

Be still when the earth is silent and sing when my strength is gone 还可以当地球是无声的，唱的时候我的优势就是走了

   

And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon 和海湾的风把我的飞鱼闪耀的新月

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew 让我看看地平线那里的黎明将重新突破

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low 凉爽我在这里在这个孤独的码头所在的鹭飞低

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico 回声的歌我父亲知道在墨西哥小镇

   

Now father's going to India sometime in the fall 现在，父亲去印度的某个时候在秋天

They tried to stay together but you just can't do it all 他们想呆在一起，但你不能做这一切

I'll think about him if he goes, there's a little grey in his hair 我会想他，如果他去，有一个小灰在他的头发

Though not much because he's Mexican, they don't age, they just prepare 虽然没有多少，因为他是墨西哥人，他们没有年龄，他们只是准备

   

And if he goes to India I'll miss him most of all 如果他去印度，我会想念他最重要的是

He'll see me in the mudlarks' face, hear me in the beggar's call 他会看到我在mudlarks的脸，听到我在乞丐的号召

And mama will stay home, I guess, and worry if she did wrong 和妈妈会留在家里，我想，如果她错了没有后顾之忧

And I'll say a prayer for both of them and sing them both my song 我会说祈祷他们俩唱他们两个我的歌

   

And gulf winds bring me flying fish that shine in the crescent moon 和海湾的风把我的飞鱼闪耀的新月

Show me the horizon where the dawn will break anew 让我看看地平线那里的黎明将重新突破

And cool me here on this lonely pier where the heron are flying low 凉爽我在这里在这个孤独的码头所在的鹭飞低

Echo the songs my father knew in the towns of Mexico 回声的歌我父亲知道在墨西哥小镇