We are two mariners 我们是两个水手

Our ship's sole survivors 我们的船的唯一幸存者

In this belly of a whale 在这个肚子鲸鱼

It's ribs are ceiling beams 它的肋骨天花板横梁

It's guts are carpeting 它的胆量是地毯

I guess we have some time to kill 我想我们有一些时间来杀死

   

You may not remember me 你可能不记得我

I was a child of three 我是三个孩子

And you, a lad of eighteen 而你，一个十八岁的小伙子

But, I remember you 不过，我记得你

And I will relate to you 我将与你

How our histories interweave 如何我们的历史交织

At the time you were 那时的你

A rake and a roustabout 耙式和码头工人

Spending all your money 花光你的钱

On the whores and hounds 在妓女和猎犬

(oh, oh) （哦，哦）

   

You had a charming air 你有一个迷人的风

All cheap and debonair 所有的廉价和温文尔雅

My widowed mother found so sweet 我守寡的母亲发现这么甜

And so she took you in 于是她把你

Her sheets still warm with him 她张着他依然温暖

Now filled with filth and foul disease 现在充满了肮脏和疾病犯规

As time wore on you proved 随着时间的你穿证明

A debt-ridden drunken mess 阿债务缠身​​醉酒乱

Leaving my mother 离开我的母亲

A poor consumptive wretch 一个可怜的消费坏蛋

(oh, oh) （哦，哦）

   

And then you disappeared 然后你消失

Your gambling arrears 赌博欠款

The only thing you left behind 你留下的唯一的事

And then the magistrate 然后裁判官

Reclaimed our small estate 回收我们的小庄园

And my poor mother lost her mind 我可怜的母亲失去了她的心

Then, one day in spring 然后，有一天春

My dear sweet mother died 我亲爱的母亲去世

But, before she did 不过，之前她做了

I took her hand as she, dying, cried: 我拉着她的手，她，快死了，叫道：

(oh, oh) （哦，哦）

   

"Find him, Bind him “找到他，他绑定

Tie him to a pole and break 牵绊一极和休息

His fingers to splinters 他的手指，稀里哗啦

Drag him to a hole until he 拖他到一个洞，直到他

Wakes up naked 醒来裸体

Clawing at the ceiling 扣在天花板上

Of his grave" 他的坟墓“的

   

It took me fifteen years 我花了15年

To swallow all my tears 吞下我的眼泪

Among the urchins in the street 在街上的顽童

Until a priory 直到修道院

Took pity and hired me 带着怜悯和聘请我

To keep their vestry nice and neat 为了保持自己的教区漂亮和整洁

But, never once in the employ 但是，从来没有一次在受雇于

Of these holy men 这些圣人的

Did I ever, once turn my mind 我曾经，曾经把我的心

From the thought of revenge 从复仇的想法

(oh, oh) （哦，哦）

   

One night I overheard 一天晚上，我无意中听到

The prior exchanging words 事先交换的话

With a penitent whaler from the sea 来自大海的忏悔捕鲸船

The captain of his ship 他的船的船长

Who matched you toe to tip 谁匹配你的脚趾给小费

Was known for wanton cruelty 被称为对肆意虐待

The following day 翌日

I shipped to sea 给我发货到海

With a privateer 与私

And in the whistle 而在终场

Of the wind 风

I could almost hear 我几乎可以听到

(oh, oh) （哦，哦）

   

"Find him, Bind him “找到他，他绑定

Tie him to a pole and break 牵绊一极和休息

His fingers to splinters 他的手指，稀里哗啦

Drag him to a hole until he 拖他到一个洞，直到他

Wakes up naked 醒来裸体

Clawing at the ceiling 扣在天花板上

Of his grave 他的坟墓

   

There is one thing I must say to you 有一件事我必须对你说

As you sail across the sea 当你越过大海航行

Always, your mother will watch over you 总是，你的妈妈会守护着你

As you avenge this wicked deed" 正如你报仇这邪恶的行为“

   

And then, that fateful night 然后，命运之夜

We had you in our sight 我们在我们的视线中了你

After twenty months at sea 经过二十个月的海

Your starboard flank abeam 您的右舷正横后刀面

I was getting my muskets clean 我让我的步枪干净

When came this rumbling from beneath 当来到这从下面隆隆

The ocean shook 大洋震撼

The sky went black 天空又黑

And the captain quailed 和船长有些畏缩

And before us grew 而摆在我们面前长大

The angry jaws 愤怒的爪

Of a giant whale 一个巨大的鲸鱼

   

(oh..) （哦..）

   

Don't know how I survived 不知道我是怎么活下来的

The crew all was chewed alive 船员们都被活活嚼

I must have slipped between his teeth 我一定是他的牙齿之间滑

But, oh, what providence 但是，哦，什么天意

What divine intelligence 什么神圣的智慧

That you should survive 你应该生存

As well as me 还有我

It gives my heart great joy 它给我的心脏如痴如醉

To see your eyes fill with fear 看你的眼神充满恐惧

So lean in close 因此，在靠近瘦

And I will whisper 我会耳语

The last words you'll hear 最后的话，你会听到

(oh, oh) （哦，哦）