You want to grow up to paint houses like me, a trailer in my yard till you're 23 你想长大后画的房子和我一样，一拖在我的院子里，直到你23

You want to be old after 42 years, keep dropping the hammer and grinding the gears 你想42年后到老，不断落槌磨齿轮

   

Well, I used to go out in a Mustang, a 302 Mach One in green. 好吧，我去了一个野马， 302马赫一为绿色。

Me and your Mama made you in the back and I sold it to buy her a ring. 我和你妈妈让你在后面，我把它卖给她买一枚戒指。

And I learned not to say much of nothing and I figured you already know 我学会了不说太多的什么，我想你已经知道了

But in case you don't or maybe forgot, I'll lay it out real nice and slow 但如果你不也许忘了，我就躺在它真正的好慢

   

Don't call what your wearing an outfit. Don't ever say your car is broke. 不要打电话给你穿的是什么衣服。永远不要说你的车是破产了。

Don't worry about losing your accent, a Southern Man tells better jokes. 不要担心失去你的口音，一个南方男人告诉好笑话。

Have fun but stay clear of the needle. Call home on your sister's birthday. 有乐趣，但留下清晰的针。给家里打电话对你妹妹的生日。

Don't tell them you're bigger than Jesus, don't give it away. 不要告诉他们你是大于耶稣，不要送人。

   

Six months in a St. Florian foundry, they call it Industrial Park. 半年的圣弗洛里安代工，他们称之为工业园区。

Then hospital maintenance and Tech School just to memorize Frigidaire parts. 然后，医院维修和技术学院只是记住北极地区。

But I got to missing your Mama and I got to missing you too. 不过，我得缺少你妈妈和我太思念你。

So I went back to painting for my old man and I guess that's what I'll always do 于是我又回到了画我老头子，我想这就是我会一直做

   

So don't try to change who you are boy, and don't try to be who you ain't. 所以，不要试图去改变你是谁的孩子，不要试图成为你不是谁。

And don't let me catch you in Kendale with a bucket of wealthy-man's paint. 不要让我抓到你Kendale与富裕人的漆桶。

   

Don't call what your wearing an outfit. Don't ever say your car is broke. 不要打电话给你穿的是什么衣服。永远不要说你的车是破产了。

Don't sing with a fake British accent. Don't act like your family's a joke. 不唱了假的英国口音。不要跟你的家庭是一个笑话。

Have fun, but stay clear of the needle, call home on your sister's birthday. 有乐趣，但留下清晰的针，给家里打电话你妹妹的生日。

Don't tell them you're bigger than Jesus, Don't give it away. 不要告诉他们你是大于耶稣，不要送人。

   

Don't give it away 不要送人