I was an unmarried girl 我是一个未婚女孩

I'd just turned twenty-seven 我刚满27

When they sent me to the sisters 当他们把我送到了姐妹

For the way men looked at me 对于男人看着我的方式

Branded as a jezebel 烙的耶洗别

I knew I was not bound for Heaven 我知道我不是开往天堂

I'd be cast in shame 我被丢在耻辱

Into the Magdalene laundries 入抹大拉洗衣店

   

Most girls come here pregnant 大多数女孩来这里怀孕

Some by their own fathers 有些被自己的父亲

Bridget got that belly 布里奇特了肚

By her parish priest 她的教区神父

We're trying to get things white as snow 我们正在努力把事情洁白如雪

All of us woe-begotten-daughters 我们所有的疾苦，独生子，女儿

In the streaming stains 在流污渍

Of the Magdalene laundries 抹大拉的洗衣店

   

Prostitutes and destitutes 妓女和赤贫

And temptresses like me-- 与香艳女郎像我 -

Fallen women-- 堕落women--

Sentenced into dreamless drudgery ... 被判为无梦的苦差事...

Why do they call this heartless place 为什么叫这个没良心的地方

Our Lady of Charity? 我们的慈悲圣母？

Oh charity! 哦慈善！

   

These bloodless brides of Jesus 耶稣的这些不流血的新娘

If they had just once glimpsed their groom 如果他们只是有一次瞥见了自己的新郎

Then they'd know, and they'd drop the stones 然后，他们会知道的，他们会掉落的石头

Concealed behind their rosaries 隐瞒自己的念珠背后

They wilt the grass they walk upon 他们枯萎的小草他们走时

They leech the light out of a room 他们蚂蟥光出​​室

They'd like to drive us down the drain 他们想推动我们血本无归

At the Magdalene laundries 在抹大拉洗衣店

   

Peg O'Connell died today PEG奥康今天去世了

She was a cheeky girl 她是个厚脸皮的女孩

A flirt 调情

They just stuffed her in a hole! 他们只是塞进她的一个洞！

Surely to God you'd think at least some bells should ring! 当然，上帝，你会觉得至少有一些钟声敲响应该！

One day I'm going to die here too 有一天我会死在这里也

And they'll plant me in the dirt 他们会种我的污垢

Like some lame bulb 就像有些跛灯泡

That never blooms come any spring 从不开花，到这儿来了春天

Not any spring 没有任何弹簧

No, not any spring 不，没有任何弹簧

Not any spring 没有任何弹簧