The legs of Maddox kitchen tables 马多克斯的厨房桌子腿

My whole life twisted on a lathe 我的整个生活绞在车床上

In a foreman's torrent 在工头的洪流

My first English was 我的第一个英文是

"faster boy if you want your pay" “如果你想你的工资快男”

Barking commands 吠命令

Loud and simple 响亮而简单

We could all obey 大家都可以听

   

Then I was forever pulling silvers 然后，我永远拉着银

Rubbed the sawdust always 擦锯末总

Deeper in my eye 在我的眼睛更深

Varnish vapor that could linger 清漆蒸气可能徘徊

On my skin 我的皮肤

It held tight 它举行紧

The whine of spinning blades 旋转叶片的哀鸣

Still echoes to bother my sleep at night 还是呼应打扰我的睡眠，晚上

   

See that ox 看到牛

Stamped dead center 冲压死点

On the letter head of the company mail 在公司的邮件信头

Four decades a spitting image 四十年活脱

Of the animal I portrayed 动物我描绘

At Maddox Table a yoke was carved 在马多克斯表轭被雕刻

For my neck 对于我的脖子

   

Sun through the window oil spattered 阳光透过窗户油喷溅

And in mason jars 而在梅森罐

Tricked plenty seeds thrive 被骗很多种子茁壮成长

The standing joke 站立笑话

Around the shop was 周围的店铺是

With my green thumb 与我的绿拇指

Anything'd grow Anythingd成长

My part was to laugh 我的部分是笑

Show and ornery jig had 展和故意刁难夹具过

Cut it at the knuckle bone 在关节骨剪

   

See that ox 看到牛

Trade mark burned 商标烧毁

Into every stick of furniture 为每件家具棒

From horn to tail 从角尾

Four decades a spitting image 四十年活脱

Of the animal I portrayed 动物我描绘

At Maddox Table a yoke was carved 在马多克斯表轭被雕刻

For my neck 对于我的脖子

   

Was tailor made 是定做的

   

O my Dolly was a weak 啊，我的多莉是一个软弱的

Not a burdened girl 不是背负的女孩

Treat her to a piece of vaudville 对待她一块vaudville的

A Wintergarden moving picture show à冬季花园运动图像显示

Bemus Point on July Sundays Bemus点七月星期日

By trolley we'd go 由手推车，我们会去

   

To your benefit we's strike or bargain 为了您的利益，我们的罢工或讨价还价

With the waving fist a union man 随着挥舞的拳头工会的人

Not just for 不只是为

Smokes spirits candy and cologne 抽烟的精神糖果和科隆

But for 但对于

Automobile keys 汽车钥匙

Cash in the bank 在银行的现金

And the deed 和契税

On a place called home 在家里地方叫