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[00:00.00] 作词 : Tom Paxton (我收到了一封来自L.B.J.的信)
[00:00.00] 作曲 : Tom Paxton
[00:00.00] I got a letter from L. B. J
[00:09.93]It said this is your lucky day (他说今天是你的幸运日)
[00:11.91]It's time to put your khaki trousers on (是时候穿上卡其色军装裤啦)
[00:15.99]Though it may seem very queer (尽管这听起来很奇怪)
[00:17.82]We've got no jobs to give you here (但是我们没法给你任何工作)
[00:19.80]So we are sending you to Viet Nam (所以我们准备送你去越南)
[00:23.94]Lyndon Johnson told the nation (林登约翰逊告诉全国)
[00:25.98]Have no fear of escalation (不要害怕战争扩大)
[00:28.05]I am trying everyone to please (我已经努力让大家都满意)
[00:32.01]Though it isn't really war (尽管这不是一场真正的战争)
[00:33.84]We're sending fifty thousand more (我们已经送去了五万多人)
[00:35.79]To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese. (从越南人手中拯救越南)
[00:39.93]I jumped off the old troop ship (我跳下那艘老运兵船)
[00:41.82]And sank in mud up to my hips (陷入了能没到屁股的淤泥里)
[00:43.80]I cussed until the captain called me down (我一路咒骂直到队长叫我过去)
[00:47.94]Never mind how hard it's raining (不要在意这倾盆大雨)
[00:49.98]Think of all the ground we're gaining (想想我们所得到的一切)
[00:51.84]Just don't take one step outside of town (只是千万别离开城镇一步)
[00:55.89]Lyndon Johnson told the nation (林登约翰逊告诉全国)
[00:57.87]Have no fear of escalation (不要害怕战争扩大)
[00:59.94]I am trying everyone to please (我已经努力让大家都满意)
[01:03.90]Though it isn't really war (尽管这不是一场真正的战争)
[01:05.73]We're sending fifty thousand more (我们已经送去了五万多人)
[01:07.83]To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese. (从越南人手中拯救越南)
[01:14.07]Every night the local gentry (每天晚上那些本地的绅士)
[01:15.81]Sneak out past the sleeping sentry (从睡着的哨兵身边偷偷溜走)
[01:17.91]They go  to join the old VC (他们要去加入老越共啦)
[01:21.78]In their nightly little dramas (每天晚上的小情景剧里)
[01:23.88]They put on their black pajamas (他们穿上那些黑色睡衣)
[01:25.89]And come lobbing mortar shells at me (又开始对着我们狂扔迫击炮弹)
[01:29.79]Lyndon Johnson told the nation (林登约翰逊告诉全国)
[01:31.80]Have no fear of escalation (不要害怕战争扩大)
[01:33.78]I am trying everyone to please (我已经努力让大家都满意)
[01:37.74]Though it isn't really war (尽管这不是一场真正的战争)
[01:39.54]We're sending fifty thousand more (我们已经送去了五万多人)
[01:41.67]To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese. (从越南人手中拯救越南)
[01:45.06]We  go round in helicopters (我们坐在直升机里转悠)
[01:49.83]Like a bunch of big grasshoppers (像一大群蝗虫一样)
[01:51.75]Searching for the Viet Cong in vain (徒劳地寻找越共的踪迹)
[01:55.71]They left a note that they had gone (他们留下了小纸条说“爷走啦”)
[01:57.72]They had to get down to Saigon (已经一路走到了西贡)
[01:59.58]Their government positions to maintain (他们的政府地位依然稳固)
[02:03.78]Lyndon Johnson told the nation (林登约翰逊告诉全国)
[02:05.82]Have no fear of escalation (不要害怕战争扩大)
[02:07.83]I am trying everyone to please (我已经努力让大家都满意)
[02:11.79]Though it isn't really war (尽管这不是一场真正的战争)
[02:13.62]We're sending fifty thousand more (我们已经送去了五万多人)
[02:15.72]To help save Viet nam from Viet Namese. (从越南人手中拯救越南)
[02:19.23]Well  here I sit in this rice paddy (现在我坐在稻田里面)
[02:23.76]Wondering about Big Daddy (想知道空中支援啥时候能来)
[02:25.77]And I know that Lyndon loves me so (我知道林登总统是爱我的对吗)
[02:29.61]Yet how sadly I remember (不过我还清楚的记得)
[02:31.71]Way back yonder in November (不久之前的那个十一月)
[02:33.75]When he said I'd never have to go (他还说我完全不需要参战)
[02:37.68]Lyndon Johnson told the nation (林登约翰逊告诉全国)
[02:39.60]Have no fear of escalation (不要害怕战争扩大)
[02:41.67]I am trying everyone to please (我已经努力让大家都满意)
[02:45.63]Though it isn't really war (尽管这不是一场真正的战争)
[02:47.46]We're sending fifty thousand more (我们已经送去了五万多人)
[02:49.59]To help save Viet nam from  Viet Namese. (从越南人手中拯救越南)