Lend a Hand to the Farmers (把手借給農民) by Willie Nelson & Marty Dread 歌詞中譯

"Lend a Hand to the Farmers" (把手借給農民)
By Willie Nelson and Marty Dread
Chinese translation of the lyrics by Chang Jui-chuan (張睿銓)

Lend a hand to the farmers on this land
Put the power of production back in their hands
Lend a hand to the farmers in this time
The very future of the nation is on the line
把手借給這片土地上的農民
將生產的力量還到他們手中
現在就把手借給農民
國家的未來岌岌可危

Think of all these families
Being forced off their land
The small farmer is a chess piece
Being pushed by corporate hands
想想這些家庭
被迫離開他們的土地
渺小的農民只是一個棋子
被企業之手推來推去

Lend a hand to the farmers on this land
Put the power of production back in their hands
Lend a hand to the farmers in this time
The very future of the nation is on the line
把手借給這片土地上的農民
把生產的力量還到他們手中
現在就把手借給農民
國家的未來岌岌可危

Can't you see that
To have a healthy nation
Good food is what we need
But without the cultivators
Who's gonna plant the seeds?
你不懂嗎？
要有一個健康的國家
我們需要好的食物
但如果沒有耕種者
誰能來播種？

Lend a hand to the farmers on this land
Lend a hand to the farmers on this land
Let's put the power of production back in their hands
Put the power of production back in their hands
把手借給這片土地上的農民
把手借給這片土地上的農民
讓我們把生產的力量還到他們手中
把生產的力量還到他們手中

Can't you see
A bunch of rusted tractors
Thousands of idle hands
A nation raised on junk food
Millions of acres of wasted land
你沒看到
一部部生鏽的牽引機
成千上萬賦閒的手
垃圾食物養大的國家
數百萬畝荒廢的土地

Lend a hand to the farmers on this land
Put the power of production back in their hands
Lend a hand to the farmers in this time
The very future of the nation is on the line
把手借給這片土地上的農民
把生產的力量還到他們手中
現在就把手借給農民
這個國家的未來岌岌可危

Lend a hand to the farmers
Let's lend a hand to the farmers
Put the power of production back in their hands
把手借給農民
讓我們把手借給農民
把生產的力量還到他們手中

Let's lend a hand, let's lend a hand to the farmers
讓我們把手借出來，讓我們把手借給農民

At one time we had more than 8 million small family farmers on the land in this country. Now we're down to less than 2 million, losing 300-500 every week. The backbone of this country is the farmer. We're losing our farmers. We're losing the bottom rung on the economic ladder. If we don't help our farmers we will go hungry.
在這個國家（美國）裡，這片土地上，我們曾經有超過八百萬個小型農業農民。但現在我們只剩下不到兩百萬個，每個禮拜減少三百到五百個。農民是這個國家的主幹。我們正在失去­我們的農民。我們的經濟根基正在搖動流失。如果不幫助我們的農民，我們將有饑荒。

Lend a hand to the farmers and you are lending a hand to yourself.
把手借給農民，其實就是把手借給你自己。

Lend a hand to the farmers
Put the power of production back into their hands
Lend a hand to the farmers
The future of the nation is on the line
把手借給農民
將生產的力量還到他們手中
把手借給農民
這個國家的未來岌岌可危

Lend a hand to the farmers
把手借給農民

附註：「lend a hand」可簡譯為「幫助」，但因為我喜歡「手」在這個情境裡的意象，遂直譯之。

Category:

Music

Tags:

• roots
• reggae
• country
• farmer
• agriculture
• devastation