My name is Gary Tyler, Louisiana-born 我的名字是加里·泰勒，路易斯安那州出生的

Shadow of the poplar tree on fields all ripe with corn 杨树对所有领域的成熟与玉米的影子

Sixteen years I counted on the rising of the sun 十六年来，我算的上太阳的升起

I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home 我只是在等公交车带我回家

Of all the Disunited States divided black and white 所有的国家不统一分为黑色和白色

Louisiana taught me how to think and how to fight 路易斯安那州教会了我如何思考，如何打

Sixty of us kids aboard the number 91 我们的孩子六十搭乘91号

I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home 我只是在等公交车带我回家

   

Bus was barely moving we were set upon and stopped 公交车几乎没有动，我们分别设置在停

Watched 200 white boys throwing bottles, cans and rocks 看着200白人男孩扔瓶子，罐子和岩石

Trapped and scared together there was nowhere we could run 被困和害怕起来有无处我们可以运行

I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home 我只是在等公交车带我回家

Boy outside the bus, an automatic in his hand 车外的男孩，自动在他的手

We heard a single shot and then we all just hit the ground 我们听到了一枪，然后我们都只是砸在地上

I never pulled a trigger and I never held a gun 我从来没有拉扳机，我没开过枪

I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home 我只是在等公交车带我回家

   

White boy lay there bleeding cops they searched the bus 白人男孩躺在那里流血警察，他们搜查了公交车

Never found a thing to say that it was one of us 从来没有发现一个东西说，这是我们的一员

Took us down the station they were beating us for fun 带我们下站他们打的乐趣

I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home 我只是在等公交车带我回家

Gun produced from nowhere pinned the crime on me 不知从哪儿生产的枪钉罪在我身上

A lynchmob for a jury meant they'd never set me free à lynchmob由陪审团意味着他们从来没有让我自由

Thirty years in prison for a crime I haven't done 三十年徒刑的罪行我没有做过

I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home 我只是在等公交车带我回家

   

Waiting here the world has turned a thousand times or more 等待在世界上已经翻了千倍以上

Stranded like the man who never knew they'd stopped the war 滞留喜欢的人从来没有谁知道他们会停止战争

Waiting for the pardon but the pardon never comes 等待着赦免，但赦免永远不会到来

I'm just waiting for the bus to take me home. 我只是在等公交车带我回家。