Drivin' down on a dry summer's day 驾乘着倒在干燥的夏季的一天

Old Route 66 and I was just a kid 旧66号，我只是个孩子

Met a pretty little Indian girl 遇到了一个漂亮的小印度女孩

Along the way 一路上

Got her into my car 让她到我的车

And tried to give her a kiss 并试图给她一个吻

I'll give you beads and wampum 我给你珠子和贝壳串珠

Whatever it takes girl, to make you trade 不管怎么样姑娘，让你交易

She jumped into the back seat 她跳进后座

And she kind of flipped her lid 她种翻转她的盖子

She said you're tryin' to get something for nothing 她说，你试着不劳而获

Like the pilgrims in the olden days 就像古时香客

   

We rode for a while till the sun went away 我们骑了一会儿，直到太阳走了

And I realized it was sort of an honor 我意识到这是某种一种荣誉

Bein' around this girl 贝因解决这个女孩

I felt embarrassed 我感到尴尬

Of what I tried to do earlier that day 什么我试过一天做早期

She was the saddest girl I ever knew 她是最悲惨的女孩，我所知道

She told me stories about the Indian nations 她告诉我，印度的国家的故事

And how the white man stole their lives away 如何白人偷走他们的生活远

And although she kinda liked me 虽然她有点喜欢我

She could never trust me 她永远无法相信我

And when the sun comes up 而当太阳升起

We'd go our different ways 我们会去我们的方式不同

   

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Now everybody has got the choice 现在每个人都已经拿到了选择

Between hotdogs and hamburgers 热狗和汉堡之间

Every one of us has got to choose 我们每个人都有得选择

Between right and wrong 对与错之间

And givin' up or holdin' on 并得到安宁或牵着上

   

So I dropped her off at some railroad crossing in Texas 所以，我在得克萨斯州的一些铁路道口下车时她

An old Indian man was waiting there 一个古老的印度男子被等候在那里

He smiled and thanked me 他微笑着向我表示感谢

But he saw right through me 但他看到看穿我

I could tell he didn't like me 我可以告诉他不喜欢我

For my kind he did not care 对于我这种，他根本不在乎

Because to him I was the white man 因为他，我是白人

The one who sold him something that he already owned 谁卖给他的东西之一，他已经拥有

And it was like he'd been riding in the car right there with us 而且就像他一直骑在车上一直和我们在一起

And I felt ashamed of my actions 我觉得惭愧，我的行动

And the way the west was really won 和路西是真的赢了

So I drove down the highway 所以，我开车在高速公路上

Till I came to Los Angeles 直到我来到洛杉矶

The town of the angels 天使镇

The best this country can do 最好这个国家能做到

I got down on my knees ì我跪下

And I asked for forgiveness 我求上帝宽恕

I said, Lord, forgive us for we know not what we do 我说，主啊，原谅我们，我们不知道我们做什么

   

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