The Downeaster "Alexa"

Well I'm on the Downeaster 'Alexa'
我現在正在唐依斯特-阿麗莎號船上
And I'm cruising through Lond Island Sound
我正駕駛著它巡航穿越石峽島
I have chartered a course to the Vineyard
我已經準備好去向溫亞德的行程
But tonight I am Nantucket bound
但今夜我將向楠塔基特前進
We took on diesel back in Montauk yesterday
昨天我們已在蒙托克加滿油
And left this morning from the bell in Gardner's Bay
今晨伴隨著加德納海灣的鐘聲出發
Like all the locals here I've had to sell my home
和當地的其他人一樣我必須賣掉我的房子
Too proud to leave I worked my fingers to the bone
出於自尊我不願離開這裡，一直拼命工作
So I could own my Downeaster 'Alexa'
我堅信唐依斯特-阿麗莎號郵輪會有的
And I go where the ocean is deep
揚帆去向浩瀚深邃的海洋
There are giants out there in the canyons
峽谷中充滿巨形怪物
And a good captain can't fall asleep
而我作為好船長則絲毫不能鬆懈
I've got bills to pay and children who need clothes
我的賬單還沒付清，我的孩子還沒有衣服穿
I know there's fish out there but where God only knows
我知道海裡有魚，但是天知道他們到底在哪兒
They say these waters aren't what they used to be
他們說這些海洋已經今非昔比
But I've got people back on land who count on me
但是陸地上還有需要我照顧的人
So if you see my Downeaster 'Alexa'
因此，如果你看見我的唐依斯特-阿麗莎號
And if you work with the rod and the reel
而且你在海邊用釣魚竿捕魚
Tell my wife I am trolling Atlantis
請告訴我的妻子，我正在大西洋捕魚
And I still have my hands on the wheel
我會堅持到底，決不放棄
Now I drive my Downeaster 'Alexa'
如今我駕駛著我的唐依斯特-阿麗莎號
More and more miles from shore every year
逐年遠離海岸
Since they told me I can't sell no stripers
他們告訴我條紋鱸魚已經賣不出去了
And there's no luck in swordfishing here
但是我也沒有運氣碰見劍魚
I was a bayman like my father was before
我和我老爸一樣也是一個漁民
Can't make a living as a bayman anymore
這種工作已經不能維持生計
There ain't much future for a man who works the sea
以海為生的人也沒有什麼未來
But there ain't no island left for islanders like me
但我這樣有信念的漁民終會擁有自己的一片天地