Let him roll, boys let him roll 让他滚，男孩让他滚

I bet he's gone to dallas rest his soul 我敢打赌，他去了达拉斯安息他的灵魂

   

Now he was a wino, tried and true 现在，他是一个酒鬼，尝试和真正的

Done about everything there is to do 做什么都没有做

He worked on freighters, he worked in bars 他曾在货，他在酒吧工作

He worked on farms, 'n he worked on cars 他曾在农场， N他从事汽车

   

Now it was white port whine, that put that look in his eye 现在是白港的哀鸣，是把那看着他的眼睛

That grown men get when they need to cry 那成年男子获得，当他们需要哭泣

And we sat down on the curb to rest 而我们就坐在路边休息

And his head just fell down on his chest 他的头刚刚倒下在他的胸口

   

He said "every single day it gets 他说：“每一天它会

Just a little bit harder to handle and yet..." 只是一点点很难处理，但......“

Then he lost the thread and his mind got cluttered 然后，他失去了线程和他的心灵得到了混乱

The words just rolled off down in the gutter 话刚下线倒在阴沟里

   

He was a elevator man in a cheap hotel 他是一个电梯的人在一个便宜的旅馆

In exchange for the rent on a one room cell 在一间客房电池换取租金

And he's years old before his time 而且他几年，他又老

No thanks to the world, and the white port wine 不，谢谢走向世界，与白波特酒

   

And he said "son", he always called me son 他说： “儿子” ，他总是叫我的儿子

He said, "life for you has just begun" 他说， “生活中你才刚刚开始”

And then he told me the story that i heard before 然后他跟我说，我以前听到的故事

How he fell in love with a dallas whore 他爱怎么跌了达拉斯妓女

   

He could cut through the years to the very night 他可以通过多年切到很夜

That it all ended, in a whore house fight 这一切结束后，在妓院打

And she turned his last proposal down 她转过最后一个向下的建议

In favor of being a girl about town 赞成的是一个城里姑娘

   

Now it's been seventeen years right in line 现在，它已经17年右行

And he ain't been straight none of the time 而他没有直没有时间

It's too many years of fightin' the weather 这太多年争斗的“天气

And too many nights of not being together 和太多的不在一起的夜

   

So he died... 于是，他死了...

   

Let him roll, boys let him roll 让他滚，男孩让他滚

I bet he's gone to dallas rest his soul 我敢打赌，他去了达拉斯安息他的灵魂

Let him roll, boys let him roll 让他滚，男孩让他滚

He always thought that heaven 他一直以为天上

Was just a dallas whore 只是一个妓女达拉斯

   

When they went through his personal affects 当他们经历了他个人的影响

In among the stubs from the welfare checks 从福利支票存根中

Was a crumblin' picture of a girl in a door 是一个女孩crumblin “的图片在门

An address in dallas, and nothin' more 在达拉斯的一个地址，别无他物

   

Well the welfare people provided the priest 以及福利的人提供的牧师

And a couple from the mission down the street 一对夫妇从沿街的使命

Sang amasing grace, and nobody cried 桑amasing恩典，没有人哭

'cept some lady in black way off to the side CEPT黑的方式有些女士在一旁

   

We all left and she's standing there 我们都离开了，她的站在那里

The black veil covering her silver hair 黑色的面纱，包括她的银发

And one-eyed john said her name was alice 和独眼约翰说，她的名字是爱丽丝

She used to be a whore in dallas 她以前是在达拉斯一个妓女

   

Let him roll, boys let him roll 让他滚，男孩让他滚

I bet he's gone to dallas rest his soul 我敢打赌，他去了达拉斯安息他的灵魂

Let him roll, boys let him roll 让他滚，男孩让他滚

He always thought that heaven 他一直以为天上

Was just a dallas whore 只是一个妓女达拉斯

Let him roll, boys let him roll 让他滚，男孩让他滚