Yankee Bayonet (I Will Be Home Then)

Heart-carved tree trunk Yankee bayonet
美國人把樹幹修剪成心的形狀
A sweetheart left behind
一顆心便赫然而現
Far from the hills of the sea-swelled Carolinas
此地遠離波濤洶湧的卡羅萊納的山丘
That's where my true love lies
那裡有我真摯的愛

羽毛光鮮的燕子飛翔的時候找一找我
Look for me when the sun-bright swallow
它們的歌聲迴盪在樺樹枝頭
Sings upon the birch bough high
你所站的土地上有田鼠和象鼻蟲
But you are in the ground with the voles and the weevils
叮在你乾硬的骨頭上
All a'chew on your bones so dry
太陽破土而出

照在已經沒有戰鬥口號的告示板上
But when the sun breaks
你能不能給我立個碑
To no more bulletin battle-cry
我就要回家了
Then will you make a grave
我就要回家了
For I will be home then
我就要回家了
I will be home then
我就要回家了
I will be home then
一會兒就回
I will be home then
我還是個小姑娘的時候奧康尼的山丘
Then
彷彿是將我縫在了裡面
When I was a girl how the hills of Oconee
集市上我們不經意的目光接觸
Made a seam to hem me in
我的心竟像被針刺了一下
There at the fair when our eyes caught careless
你看到了馬納薩斯戰場上的亡靈了嗎
Got my heart right pierced by a pin
殘肢斷臂

我滯留在荒蕪的平原上
But oh did you see all the dead of Manassas
肚子裡懷著一個小孩
All the bellies and the bones and the bile
太陽破土而出
Though I lingered here with the blankets barren
照在已經沒有戰斗口號的告示板上
And my own belly big with a child
你能不能給我立個碑

我就要回家了
But when the sun breaks
我就要回家了
To no more bulletin battle-cry
我就要回家了
Then will you make a grave
我就要回家了
For I will be home then
森嚴壁壘
I will be home then
橫亙在你我之間
I will be home then
鬆弛的皮膚完全不能
I will be home then
讓我嫌棄你
Stems and bones and stone walls too
即使肉體之愛會斷絕
Could keep mefrom you
即使肌膚不能相觸
Scaly skin is all too few
隨著羽毛光鮮的麻雀找一找我
To keep me from you
或許我感覺到風的氣息
But oh my love though our bodies may be parted
Though our skin may not touch skin
Look for me with the sun-bright sparrow
I will come on the breath of the wind