The Folk Society meet on Thursday nights 上周四晚的民俗学会满足

Clear their throats and put their coughs to flight 明确自己的喉咙，并把自己的咳嗽飞行

To sing the dusty cobwebs from the room 唱从房间布满灰尘的蜘蛛网

A repertoire both in and out of tune 在国内外享有很高调的曲目

Don't assume a singalong, or worse 不要假设上口，甚至更糟

This history in song and countless verse 这段历史在歌声和无数诗歌

Pays homage to the man who, long ago 致敬的人谁，不久前

Collected all the songs the singers know 收集所有的歌曲的歌手知道

Collected all the songs the singers know 收集所有的歌曲的歌手知道

   

Edward Alexander, man of action 爱德华·亚历山大，实干家

Armed only with his reel-to-reel contraption 只有与他卷到卷玩意儿武装

One hundred years ago in mac and boots 一百年前在Mac和靴子

Set out to faithfully preserve the region's roots 载忠实地维护本地区的根源

And every night in some small village inn 每天晚上在一些小村旅馆

Fortified with fortitude and gin 强化刚毅和杜松子酒

Mr Alexander, for a shilling 亚历山大先生，对于先令

Would thus record your song, if you were willing 从而将记录你的歌，如果你愿意

Would thus record your song, if you were willing 从而将记录你的歌，如果你愿意

   

So word got round, and soon there formed a queue 所以字传开后，很快就有形成一个队列

And the line of willing singers grew and grew 并愿意歌手的线越做越大

Brass for oohs and aahs? You can't go wrong 黄铜的惊呼，赞叹之余？你不能去错了

When there's someone paying a shilling for a song 当有一个人付出一先令一首歌

When all his tapes are filled up, Edward leaves 当他所有的磁带都充满了爱德华离开

There's a history preserved, so he believes 有保存完好的历史，所以他认为

But all the so-called singers back inside 但是，所有的所谓歌手内回

They know they took a city scholar for a ride 他们知道他们把一个城市的学者兜风

They know they took a city scholar for a ride 他们知道他们把一个城市的学者兜风

   

For they shook the man for every coin he'd got 对于他们震撼了男人的任何事物，他已经找到了

With words and tunes all made up on the spot 用文字和曲调都在现场由

Invented tales not twenty minutes old 发明故事，不到二十分钟之前

So history, like ale, is bought and sold. 所以历史上，像啤酒，是买和卖。

The old contraption's packed away and boxed 老玩意儿的打包带走和盒装

And a century is marked upon the clock 一个世纪被标记后，时钟

So tradition holds that Edward's great collection 因此，传统认为，爱德华的大集合

Is honoured with a weekly resurrection 很荣幸能与每周一次的复活

Honoured with a weekly resurrection 荣幸与每周一次的复活

   

And now the old Society sing the songs 而现在的旧社会唱的歌曲

Word for word, and kept where they belong 一个字一个字，并保持属于他们的地方

As once again, they eulogise the past 如再次，它们eulogise过去

You can hear the ghosts of history laughing last 你可以听到历史的鬼笑最后

You can hear the ghosts of history laughing last 你可以听到历史的鬼笑最后