- Tom Paxton Buy a Gun for Your Son 歌词
- Tom Paxton
- Halleluiah, dads and mommies, cowboys, rebles, yanks and commies,
哈利路亚，各位爹妈，牛仔，反叛者，美国佬和康米
buy yourselves some real red-blooded fun.
给你们自己来点“热血”的乐子
If you want to make the grade,
如果要想做出些成绩
you've got to have a hand grenade,
就要去找一颗手榴弹
and a fully automatic G.I. gun (改进的M1911手枪).
再来一把全自动G.I.手枪
So buy a gun for your son right away, sir.
所以亲爱的先生，立刻给您心爱的儿子买把枪吧
Shake his hand like a man and let him play, sir.
（让枪）像真男人一样握住他的手，任由他把玩
Let his little mind expand, place a weapon in his hand.
让他眼界大开，让他手枪在握
For the skills he learns today will someday pay, sir.
只是为了他的技巧未来可以大现身手
Pound that kid into submission,
殴打他直至屈服
till he's mastered nuclear fission.
直至他掌握了核裂变
Buy him plastic warheads by the store.
考试好了奖励他塑料子弹
Once he's got the taste of blood,
一旦他尝到了鲜血的滋味
He's gonna sneak up on his buddies,
便会偷偷接近他的小伙伴
starting his own thermo-nuclear war.
开始他用热核的征服之旅
So buy a gun for your son right away, sir.
所以亲爱的先生，立刻给您心爱的儿子买把枪吧
Shake his hand like a man and let him play, sir.
（让枪）像真男人一样握住他的手，任由他把玩
Let his little mind expand, place a weapon in his hand.
让他眼界大开，让他手枪在握
For the skills he learns today will someday pay, sir.
只是为了他的技巧未来可以大现身手
Buy him khakis and fartigues,
给他买来卡其裤和军裤
and sign him up in little leagues,
然后把他送去少年联盟
and give him calisthenics as a rule.
也要让他坚持练健美操
Once you've banished fear and dread,
一旦你消除了内心的恐惧和忧虑
then pat his seven-year-old head,
那就拍拍他七岁的小脑瓜
and send him off to military school.
然后把他送去军校
So buy a gun for your son right away, sir.
所以亲爱的先生，立刻给您心爱的儿子买把枪吧
Shake his hand like a man and let him play, sir.
（让枪）像真男人一样握住他的手，任由他把玩
Let his little mind expand, place a weapon in his hand.
让他眼界大开，让他手枪在握
For the skills he learns today will someday pay, sir.
只是为了他的技巧未来可以大现身手
Once he's grown to be a man,
等到他长大成人之后
he might get tired of blasting granny,
他可能厌倦了他疯癫的奶奶
then you'll see a cisis coming on.
到时候你就遇到了束手无策的事情
Don't get worried, don't get nervous.
不要忧虑，不要紧张
Send that kid into service,
把那个小孩送去服役
let him rise into the Pentagon （本意五边形）.
让他晋升到五角大楼
At the Pentagon he'll rise.
在五角大楼他会晋升
The president he will advice.
他可以给总统提建议
His reputation growing all the while.
他的名声也跟随增长
With your picture on the wall,
和着你在墙上的照片
he'll get that long-awaited call,
他很快接到那通电话
and press the firing buttons with a smile.
带着微笑按下“发射”
So buy a gun for your son right away, sir.
所以亲爱的先生，立刻给您心爱的儿子买把枪吧
Shake his hand like a man and let him play, sir.
（让枪）像真男人一样握住他的手，任由他把玩
Let his little mind expand, place a weapon in his hand.
让他眼界大开，让他手枪在握
For the skills he learns today will someday pay, sir.
只是为了他的技巧未来可以大现身手
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