[00:00:00] Ballad for Americans - Paul Robeson (罗伯逊) [00:00:10] Composer：Robinson/Latouche [00:00:20] In seventy six the sky was red [00:00:24] Thunder rumbling overhead [00:00:29] Bad King George couldn't sleep in his bed [00:00:33] And on that stormy morn [00:00:37] Ol' Uncle Sam was born [00:00:41] Some birthday [00:00:45] Ol' Sam put on a three cornered hat [00:00:49] And in a Richmond church he sat [00:00:53] And Patrick Henry told him that while America drew breath [00:01:01] It was Liberty or death [00:01:08] What kind of hat is a three cornered hat [00:01:13] Did they all believe in liberty in those days [00:01:16] Nobody who was anybody believed it [00:01:22] Ev'rybody who was anybody they doubted it [00:01:27] Nobody had faith [00:01:29] Nobody nobody but [00:01:31] Washington [00:01:33] Tom Paine [00:01:35] Benjamin Franklin [00:01:36] Chaim Solomon [00:01:38] Crispus Attucks [00:01:40] Lafayette [00:01:41] Nobodies [00:01:44] The nobodies ran a tea party at Boston [00:01:47] Betsy Ross organized a sewing circle [00:01:50] Yeah Paul Revere had a horse race [00:01:52] And a little ragged group believed it [00:01:57] And some gentlemen and ladies believed it [00:02:02] And some wise men and some fools and I believed it too [00:02:07] And you know who I am [00:02:12] No [00:02:13] Who are you mister [00:02:14] Yeah how come all this [00:02:16] Well I'll tell you [00:02:18] Now let me [00:02:18] No let us tell you [00:02:21] Then Mister Tom Jefferson a mighty fine man [00:02:26] He wrote it down in a mighty fine plan [00:02:30] And the rest all signed it with a mighty fine hand [00:02:33] As they crossed their T's and dotted their I's [00:02:38] A bran' new country did arise [00:02:42] And and and and a mighty fine idea [00:02:49] Adopted unanimously in Congress July 4 1776 [00:02:54] We hold these truths to be self evident [00:02:59] That all men are created equal [00:03:03] That they are endowed by their creator [00:03:07] With certain inalienable rights [00:03:11] That among these rights are life [00:03:14] Yes Sir [00:03:15] Liberty [00:03:16] That's right [00:03:17] And the pursuit of happiness [00:03:21] Is that what they said [00:03:23] The very words [00:03:24] That sure does sound mighty fine [00:03:28] Building a nation is awful tough [00:03:32] The people found the going rough [00:03:36] And thirteen states weren't large enough [00:03:40] So they started to expand [00:03:44] Into the western lands [00:03:50] Still nobody who was anybody believed it [00:03:56] Everybody who anybody they stayed at home [00:04:00] But Lewis and Clarke and the pioneers [00:04:04] Driven by hunger haunted by fears [00:04:07] The Klondike miners and the forty niners [00:04:09] Some wanted freedom and some wanted riches [00:04:12] Some liked to loaf while others dug ditches [00:04:17] But they believed it [00:04:20] And I believed it too [00:04:22] And you know who I am [00:04:29] No who are you Mister anyway [00:04:31] Well I started to tell you [00:04:38] Yes Mister tell us who you are [00:04:40] You see I represent the whole [00:04:47] That's it [00:04:48] Let my people go [00:04:52] That's the idea [00:04:54] Old Abe Lincoln was thin and long [00:04:58] His heart was high and his faith was strong [00:05:03] But he hated oppression he hated wrong [00:05:07] And he went down to his grave to free the slave [00:05:17] A man in white skin can never be free [00:05:20] While his black brother is in slavery [00:05:25] And we here highly resolve that these dead [00:05:28] Shall not have died in vain [00:05:32] And this government of the people [00:05:35] By the people and for the people [00:05:39] Shall not perish from the earth [00:05:42] Abraham Lincoln said that on November 19 1863 at Gettysburg Pennsylvania [00:05:47] And he was right I believe that too [00:05:50] Say Mister we still don't know who you are [00:05:52] I've been trying to tell you you see [00:05:56] There it is [00:05:57] The machine age came with a great big roar [00:06:01] As America grew in peace and war [00:06:06] And a million wheels went around and 'round 404

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