They say immigrants steal the hubcaps 他们说，移民偷轮毂罩

Of the respected gentlemen 尊敬的先生们：

They say it would be wine an' roses 他们说，这将是葡萄酒的“玫瑰

If England were for Englishmen again 如果英格兰队的英国人再次

   

Well I saw a dirty overcoat 嗯，我看到了一个肮脏的外套

At the foot of the pillar of the road 在路的支柱脚下

Propped inside was an old man 内撑起了一个老人

Whom time would not erode 谁的时间不会削弱

When the night was snapped by sirens 当夜晚被抢购了警报器

Those blue lights circled fast 这些蓝灯快速盘旋

The dancehall called for an' ambulance 呼吁“救护车的舞厅

The bars all closed up fast 酒吧所有快收涨

   

My silence gazing at the ceiling 我默默地凝视着天花板

While roaming the single room 漫游时的单间

I thought the old man could help me 我以为老头能帮助我

If he could explain the gloom 如果他能解释的阴霾

You really think it's all new 你真的认为这是所有新

You really think about it too 你真的认为它太

The old man scoffed as he spoke to me 这位老人嘲笑，因为他对我说话

I'll tell you a thing or two 我要告诉你一件事或两个

   

I missed the fourteen-eighteen war 我错过了一四一八年战争

But not the sorrow afterwards 但不是悲伤之后

With my father dead and my mother ran off 与我的父亲死了，我妈妈跑了

My brothers took the pay of hoods 我的兄弟们把抽油烟机的薪酬

The twenties turned the north was dead 上世纪二十年代转向北方已经死了

The hunger strike came marching south 绝食来到南方进发

At the garden party not a word was said 在游园会没有一个字是说

The ladies lifted cake to their mouths 女士们举起蛋糕给自己的嘴巴

   

The next war began and my ship sailed 下一场战争开始了，我的船航行

With battle orders writ in bed 随着作战命令令状在床上

In five long years of bullets and shells 在5年之久的子弹和炮弹

We left ten million dead 我们离开了千万死亡

The few returned to old Piccadily 少数回到了老Piccadily的

We limped around Leicester Square 我们一瘸一拐的Leicester广场

The world was busy rebuilding itself 世界正忙于重建自己

The architects could not care 建筑师也不在乎

   

But how could we know when I was young 但是我们怎么能知道我年轻的时候

All the canges that were to come? 所有这一切都来的canges ？

All the photos in the wallets on the battlefield 所有的照片在战场上的钱包

And now the terror of the scientific sun 科学的阳光，现在的恐怖

There was masters an' servants an' servants an' dogs 有主人的“公务员的”公务员的狗

They taught you how to touch your cap 他们教你如何触摸你的帽子

But through strikes an' famine an' war an' peace 但通过罢工的饥荒的“战争的”和平

England never closed this gap 英格兰永远不会关闭这一差距

   

So leave me now the moon is up 所以，离开我现在的月亮升

But remember all the tales I tell 但要记住所有的故事，我告诉

The memories that you have dredged up 你已经挖出了回忆

Are on letters forwarded from hell 是从地狱里转信

   

The streets were by now deserted 满街都是现在冷清

The gangs had trudged off home 该团伙曾拖着沉重的脚步回家了

The lights clicked off in the bedsits 该灯在bedsits点击关闭

An' old England was all alone 一个“老英格兰是独自一人