When I was a child my family would travel 当我还是个孩子的我的家人将前往

Down to Western Kentucky where my parents were born 下降到西肯塔基在我的父母都出生

And there's a backwards old town that's often remembered 并有一个向后的老城区是常常想起

So many times that my memories are worn. 所以很多时候，我的记忆被磨损。

   

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And daddy won't you take me back to Muhlenberg County 爸爸你不带我回穆伦堡县

Down by the Green River where Paradise lay 走在绿河，躺在天堂

Well, I'm sorry my son, but you're too late in asking 嗯，对不起我的儿子，但你是在问为时已晚

Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away 先生皮博迪煤炭列车拖走它扔掉

   

Well, sometimes we'd travel right down the Green River 嗯，有时候我们会前往沿着这条绿河

To the abandoned old prison down by Airdrie Hill 要废弃的旧监狱下降艾尔德里山

Where the air smelled like snakes and we'd shoot with our pistols 这里的空气闻起来像蛇，我们就拍我们的手枪

But empty pop bottles was all we would kill. 但是，空饮料瓶是所有我们会杀了。

   

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Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel 那么煤炭公司就与世界上最大的铲

And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land 他们折磨了木材和剥离所有的土地

Well, they dug for their coal till the land was forsaken 那么，他们挖的煤，直到土地被抛弃

Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man. 然后，他们写了这一切为人类的进步。

   

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When I die let my ashes float down the Green River 当我死了，让我的骨灰漂浮在青川

Let my soul roll on up to the Rochester dam 让我的灵魂翻滚，一直到罗切斯特坝

I'll be halfway to Heaven with Paradise waitin' 我会在中途天堂与天堂等着

Just five miles away from wherever I am. 仅五英里远的地方我。

   

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