The Red Flag

Sing:Billy Bragg
演唱：Billy Bragg
Words: jim connell
作词： jim connell
Music: "the white cockade"
曲："the white cockade"
The people's flag is deepest red
人民的旗帜是深红色的
It shrouded oft our martyred dead
它笼罩着我们牺牲的烈士
And ere their limbs grew stiff and cold
他们的四肢还没有僵硬冰冷
Their hearts' blood dyed to every fold
他们的心窝里被染上了
Then raise the scarlet standard high
更加猩红的颜色
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
在它的角落里，我们将生死攸关
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
尽管懦夫在畏缩，汉奸在讥笑
We'll keep the red flag flying here
我们将让红旗在这里飘扬
music~
music~
It waved above our infant might
它在我们婴儿的身体上挥舞
When all ahead seemed dark as night
当一切都像黑夜一样黑暗
It witnessed many a deed and vow
它见证了许多行动和誓言
We must not change its colour now
我们现在不能改变它的颜色
Then raise the scarlet standard high
然后把猩红的标准调高
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
在它的心窝里，我们将生死攸关
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
尽管懦夫在畏缩，汉奸在讥笑
We'll keep the red flag flying here
我们将保持红旗在这里飘扬
It well recalls the triumphs past
它很好地回忆过去的胜利
It gives the hope of peace at last
它最终给了和平的希望
The banner bright, the symbol plain
那明亮的旗帜，象征着朴素
Of human right and human gain
人民的权力和利益
Then raise the scarlet standard high
然后把猩红的标准调高
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
在它的心窝里，我们将生死攸关
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
尽管懦夫畏缩，汉奸讥笑
We'll keep the red flag flying here
我们将坚持让红旗在这里飘扬
music~
music~
It suits today the meek and base
它适合今天驯服和卑鄙的人
Whose minds are fixed on pelf and place
他们胸有成竹
To cringe beneath the rich man's frown
在富人的皱眉下畏缩
And haul that sacred emblem down
把那个神圣的徽章拿下来
Then raise the scarlet standard high
然后把猩红的标准调高
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
在它的心窝里，我们将生死攸关
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
尽管懦夫在畏缩，汉奸在讥笑
We'll keep the red flag flying here
我们将保持红旗在这里飘扬
With heads uncovered swear we all
我们都发誓
To bare it onward till we fall
直到我们倒下
Come dungeons dark or gallows grim
到黑暗的地狱或残酷的绞刑架吧
This song shall be our parting hymn
这首歌将是我们的诀别歌
Then raise the scarlet standard high
然后把猩红的标准调高
Beneath its folds we'll live and die
在它的心窝里，我们将生死攸关
Though cowards flinch and traitors sneer
尽管懦夫在畏缩，汉奸在讥笑
We'll keep the red flag flying here
我们将保持红旗在这里飘扬！