0728 Hell Among The Yearlings--Gillian Welch

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这是Gillian Welch 的第二张录音室音乐专辑,发表在1998年的7月28日。

这张专辑 Gillian Welch 与 David Rawlings 已经在合作了,此后他们一直合作到了现在,3年之后Gillian Welch才会发布那张让她彻底走红的「TIme」。

如果你喜欢民谣,就不会错过Gillian Welch,她身上有个标签是什么「新传统主义」,也够绕的。她的歌里面大量使用了班卓琴,有的歌还有那么一点点诡异,比如这首《Caleb Meyer》,被称之为谋杀民谣(murder ballad)。

Caleb Meyer, he lived alone
In them hollering pines
And he made a little whiskey for himself
Said it helped to pass the time

凯勒布·迈耶独自生活
住在呼啸的松林间
他自酿了一点威士忌
说那能帮他打发时光

Long one evening in back of my house
Caleb come around
And he called my name ‘til I went out
With no one else around

某个黄昏,在我家后头
凯勒布悄悄来到
他一再呼唤我的名字
直到我走出去,四下无一人

Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattling chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don’t you call my name

凯勒布·迈耶,你的鬼魂将会
拖着叮当作响的铁链游荡
可当我夜里入睡
别再来叫我的名字

Where’s your husband, Nellie Kane
Where’s your darling gone?
Did he go on down the mountainside
And leave you all alone?

“你的丈夫去哪了,内莉·凯恩?
你心爱的人跑哪去了?”
“他是不是顺着山坡走下去
把你孤零零地留下?”

Yes, my husband’s gone to Bowling Green
To do some business there
Then Caleb threw a bottle ‘cross the floor
And broke a chair

“是的,我丈夫去了博灵格林
他到那儿去办点事”
随后凯勒布朝地上扔了一瓶酒
还把椅子砸了个粉碎

Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gonna
Wear them rattling chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don’t you call my name

凯勒布·迈耶,你的鬼魂将会
拖着叮当作响的铁链游荡
可当我夜里入睡
别再来叫我的名字

I threw myself against the wall
And I tore my dress in shame
And he pinned me down on the floor
My tears they fell like rain

我狠狠撞向墙壁
羞愧中撕破了自己的裙子
他将我压倒在地
我的泪水如雨般落下

The knife was in my hand and I
Stuck it in his head
And I felt his blood run fast and hot
Around me where I lay

我的手中握着一把刀
我将它刺入他的头颅
我感觉他的血迅速滚烫地
流淌在我躺着的地方

Caleb Meyer, your ghost is gone
To wear them rattling chains
But when I go to sleep at night
Don’t you call my name

凯勒布·迈耶,你的鬼魂已经走了
将永远拖着叮当作响的铁链
可当我夜里入睡
别再来叫我的名字