Ol' Man River - From "Showboat"

作曲：Jerome Kern

作词：Oscar Hammerstein II

Here we all work long the Mississippi

Here we all work while the white folk play

Pulling them boats from the dawn till sunset

Getting no rest till the judgment day

Don't look up and don't look down

You don't dare make the white boss frown

Bend your knees and bow your head

And pull that rope until you're dead

Ol' Man River that Ol' Man River

He must know something but he don't say nothing

He just keeps rolling he keeps on rolling along

He don't plant taters he don't plant cotton

And them that plants 'em is soon forgotten

But Ol' Man River he just keeps rolling along

You and me we sweat and strain

Bodies all aching and wracked with pain

Tote that barge and lift that bale

Get a little drunk and you lands in jail

I gets weary and sick of trying

I'm tired of living but feared of dying

And Ol' Man River he just keeps rolling along