A Cautionary Song歌詞

[00:00.00] 作曲 : The Decemberists
[00:10.65]There's a place your mother goes
[00:12.94]When everybody else is soundly sleeping
[00:20.31]Through the lights of Beacon Street
[00:22.97]And if you listen, you can hear her weeping
[00:27.66]She's weeping
[00:31.90]'Cause the gentlemen are calling
[00:34.81]And the snow is softly falling on her petticoat
[00:41.67]And she's standing in the harbor
[00:44.76]And she's waiting for the sailors in the jolly boat
[00:49.83]See how they approach
[00:55.07]With dirty hands and trousers torn
[00:57.35]They grapple till she's safe within their keeping
[01:04.63]A gag is placed between her lips
[01:07.07]To keep her sorry tongue from any speaking
[01:11.96]Or screaming
[01:15.94]And they row her out to packets
[01:19.18]Where the sailors' sorry racket falls for maidenhead
[01:25.60]And she's scarce above the gunwales
[01:28.74]When her clothes fall to a bundle and she's laid in bed
[01:33.72]On the upper deck
[01:57.83]And so she goes from ship to ship
[02:01.16]Her ankles clasped, her arms so rudely pinioned
[02:08.85]'Till at last she's satisfied
[02:11.35]The lot of the marina's teeming minions
[02:15.74]In their opinions
[02:20.37]And they tell her not to say a thing
[02:23.71]To cousin, kindred, kith or kin or she'll end up dead
[02:30.19]And they throw her thirty dollars
[02:33.29]And return her to the harbor where she goes to bed
[02:37.89]And this is how you're fed
[02:42.33]So be kind to your mother
[02:48.01]Though she may seem an awful bother
[02:53.14]And the next time she tries to feed you collard greens
[03:02.75]Remember what she does when you're asleep