Me and my best friend Lillian 我和我最好的朋友莉莲

And her blue tick hound dog Gideon, 而她的蓝色刻度猎犬基甸，

Sittin on the front porch cooling in the shade 就好好坐着前廊冷却，在阴凉处

Singin every song the radio played 唱每一首歌在电台打

Waitin for the Alabama sun to go down 等待着阿拉巴马太阳下去

Two red dirt girls in a red dirt town 两个红色的泥土女孩在红土镇

Me and Lillian 我和莉莲

Just across the line and a little southeast of Meridian. 对面线和子午线有点东南部。

   

She loved her brother I remember back when 她爱她的哥哥，我记得回来的时候

He was fixin up a '49 Indian 他fixin了49印度

He told her 'Little sister, gonna ride the wind 他告诉她， “小妹妹，要骑风

Up around the moon and back again" 围绕月球，然后再返回“

He never got farther than Vietnam, 他从来没有比越南更远，

I was standin there with her when the telegram come 我跟她standin时有电报来

For Lillian. 对于莉莲。

Now he's lyin somewhere about a million miles from Meridian. 现在，他撒谎从经络的地方约一百万英里。

   

She said there's not much hope for a red dirt girl 她说，没有多少希望了红土的女孩

Somewhere out there is a great big world 在外面有一个大大的世界

Thats where I'm bound 那地方我一定

And the stars might fall on Alabama 和星星可能落在阿拉巴马州

But one of these days I'm gonna swing 但有一天我会荡

My hammer down 我倒锤

Away from this red dirt town 离开这个红土镇

I'm gonna make a joyful sound 我会做一个快乐的声音

   

She grew up tall and she grew up thin 她长大了身材，她从小就瘦

Buried that old dog Gideon 埋在老狗吉迪恩

By a crepe myrtle bush in the back of the yard, 在院子里的背面绉桃金娘灌木，

Her daddy turned mean and her mama leaned hard 她的爸爸转身均值和她的妈妈俯下身硬

Got in trouble with a boy from town 有麻烦与镇一个男孩

Figured that she might as well settle down 想通了，她还不如安定下来

So she dug right in 于是，她挖权

Across a red dirt line just a little south east from Meridian 对面经络红色泥土线东往南一点

   

She tried hard to love him but it never did take 她努力地爱他，但从来没有采取

It was just another way for the heart to break 这只是另一种为心脏破裂

So she dug right in. 于是，她挖了对世权。

But one thing they don't tell you about the blues 但有一件事他们不告诉你的蓝调

When you got em 当你有EM

You keep on falling cause there ain't no bottom 你不断下降的原因不过是没有底

There ain't know end. 还有就是不知道到底。

At least not for Lillian 至少对莉莉安

   

Nobody knows when she started her skid, 没有人知道，当她开始了她的打滑，

She was only 27 and she had five kids. 她只有27岁，她有五个孩子。

Coulda' been the whiskey, 本应该“得到了威士忌，

Coulda been the pills, 本应该丸，

Coulda been the dream she was trying to kill. 本应该在梦中，她试图将其杀死。

But there won't be a mention in the news of the world 但也不会有一提，在世界新闻报

About the life and the death of a red dirt girl 关于生命和一个红色的泥土女孩死亡

Names Lillian 莉莲的名字

Who never got any farther across the line than Meridian. 谁从来没有跨线比子午线更远的地方。

   

Now the stars still fall on Alabama 现在的明星仍然落在阿拉巴马州

Tonight she finally laid 今晚，她终于奠定

That hammer down 这倒锤

Without a sound 如果没有健全的

In the red dirt ground 在红土地上