《North Country Blues》歌词

歌曲： North Country Blues

所属专辑：Any Day Now

歌手： Joan Baez

时长： 04:59

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North Country Blues (北方乡村布鲁斯) - Joan Baez (琼·贝兹)[00:00:00]

Come gather 'round friends[00:00:06]

And I'll tell you a tale[00:00:08]

Of when the red iron ore pits ran plenty[00:00:12]

But the cardboard filled windows[00:00:20]

And old men on the benches[00:00:23]

Tell you now that the whole town is empty[00:00:27]

In the north end of town[00:00:35]

My own children are grown[00:00:37]

But I was raised up on the other[00:00:42]

In the wee hours of youth[00:00:49]

My mother took sick[00:00:52]

And I was brought up by my brother[00:00:56]

The iron ore poured[00:01:04]

As the years passed the door[00:01:06]

The drag lines an' the shovels was a-humming[00:01:11]

Till one day my brother[00:01:18]

Failed to come home[00:01:21]

The same as my father before him[00:01:25]

Well a long winter's wait[00:01:32]

From the window I watched[00:01:35]

My friends they couldn't have been kinder[00:01:39]

And my schooling was cut[00:01:47]

As I quit in the spring[00:01:50]

To marry John Thomas a miner[00:01:54]

Oh the years passed again[00:02:02]

And the givin' was good[00:02:04]

With the lunch buckets filled every season[00:02:08]

What with three babies born[00:02:15]

The work was cut down[00:02:19]

To a half a day's shift with no reason[00:02:23]

Then the shaft was soon shut[00:02:30]

And my work it was cut[00:02:33]

And the firing air it felt frozen[00:02:37]

Till a man come to speak[00:02:45]

And he said in one week[00:02:47]

That number eleven was closin'[00:02:51]

They complained in the East[00:02:59]

That they are paying too high[00:03:02]

They say that your ore ain't worth digging[00:03:05]

That it's much cheaper down[00:03:13]

In South American town[00:03:16]

Where the miners work almost for nothing[00:03:20]

So the mining gates locked[00:03:28]

And the red iron rotted[00:03:30]

And the room smelled heavy from drinking[00:03:34]

Where the sad silent song[00:03:41]

Made the hour twice as long[00:03:45]

As I waited for the sun to go sinking[00:03:49]

I lived by the window[00:03:56]

As he talked to himself[00:03:59]

This silence of tongues it was building[00:04:03]

Then one morning's wake[00:04:11]

The bed it was bare[00:04:14]

And I's left alone with three children[00:04:17]

The summer is gone[00:04:26]

The ground's turning cold[00:04:28]

The stars one by one they're a-foldin'[00:04:32]

My children will go[00:04:39]

As soon as they grow[00:04:42]

Oh there ain't nothing here now to hold them[00:04:47]