（乔治亚州巴恩斯维尔）
（1927年）
唱得好 玛 Yeah, Ma!
唱得好 宝贝 Yeah, baby!
（奔赴应许之地）
（《芝加哥捍卫者》 邀请所有人去北方）
（诚聘！招聘男女工 做各种劳力工作）
（管家、搬运工、服务员和厨师）
（格兰德）
（今晚 玛雷尼 “蓝调之母”）
（伊利诺伊州芝加哥）
试音 一、二、三 Testing, testing, one, two, three.
试音 一、二、三 Testing, one, two, three.
-试音 一、二、三… -拿到歌单了吗？ - Testing, testing, one, two... - Got that list
拿到了 别担心 Uh, I got it. Don't worry about it.
你要控制住她 出了什么事由你负责 I'm holding you responsible. You keep her in line.
我不会容忍胡作非为的事 听到了吗？艾尔？ I'm not putting up with any shenanigans. You hear, Irv Irv
艾尔？ Irv
艾尔！ Irv!
我才不信“蓝调天后”之类吹嘘的话 Not putting up with any Royal Highness, Queen of the Blues bullshit.
是“蓝调之母” 梅尔 Mother of the Blues, Mel. Mother of the Blues.
托雷多 你昨晚 真该听听勒维在夜总会说的话 Heh. You should've heard Levee at the club last night, Toledo.
他想跟玛身边那姑娘搭讪 Trying to talk to that gal Ma had with her.
你不用告诉我 我知道勒维的手段 You ain't got to tell me. I know how Levee do.
勒维想跟她搭讪 却被伤了感情 Levee tried talking to her and got his feelings hurt.
我要你把她弄进来 I want you to get her in here,
把歌单上的歌录了 就把她送出去 record those songs on that list, and get her out.
-不能出差错 -不会出差错的 梅尔 -Just like clockwork. -Like clockwork, Mel.
给我那些歌的那个小号手 And that horn player, the one who gave me those songs,
他会来吗？ is he going to be here today
-我想多听他吹奏 -伙计们 你们好吗？ - I want to hear more of that sound. - How you boys doing, Cutler
挺好的 艾尔文先生 Fine, Mr. Irvin.
-玛在哪？她跟你们一起吗？ -我不清楚 -Where's Ma She with ya -I don't know.
她跟我们说一点到这里 我就只知道这些 She told us to be here at 1:00. That's all I know.
吹小号那个呢？ Where's the, uh, horn player
勒维应该也会来 他马上就到 Levee's supposed to be here same as we is. I reckon he'll be here in a minute.
嘿 早上好 芝加哥 Hey, hey, hey. Good morning, Chicago.
他不是这一带的 He ain't from 'round here now.
进来吧 我会给你们吃的 让你们准备好演奏 Come on in. I'll get you fed and ready to make some music.
在走廊另一头 Right.Right down the hall.
玛在哪里？她没跟乐队一起来？ Where's Ma How come she isn't with the band
一切尽在掌握中 梅尔 都在我的掌握中 Everything's under control, Mel. I got everything under control.
卡特勒 这是我们要录的歌单 Cutler, here's the list of songs we're going to record.
她为什么没来？那个小号手呢？ Why isn't she here And where's that horn player
有什么歌 托雷多？ What we got there, Toledo
有… Eh, we got, uh…
《在我身上证明》、《听我对你说》 Mmm. "Prove It on Me," "Hear Me Talking to You,"
《玛雷尼的黑臀舞》、《月光蓝调》 "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," "Moonshine Blues."
这不是玛跟我说的那些歌 Oh. Them ain't the songs Ma told me.
我不担心 玛肯定能搞定的 I wouldn't worry about it if I was you. Ma'll get it straightened out.
《月光蓝调》 "Moonshine Blues."
这应该是贝西史密斯唱的歌之一 That's one of them songs Bessie Smith sang, I believes.
拖步说得对 我不担心 Eh, Slow Drag's right. I wouldn't worry about it.
勒维知道该几点到这里吗？ Levee know what time he's supposed to be here
他离开酒店的时候说要去买鞋子 Levee left the hotel talking about he was gonna buy shoes.
他说第一次双骰赢了你的钱 Says it's the first time he beat you shooting craps.
-四美金我不放在眼里 -勒维可在意了 - I ain't thinking about no four dollars. - Levee sure was.
给我喝一口 Let me get a hit of that.
他迫不及待要把那四美金花掉 That four dollars liked to burn a hole in his pocket.
他应该一点钟就到的 He's supposed to be here at 1:00.
-这芝加哥波旁威士忌够劲 -快看看 卡特勒！ - That's some good Chicago bourbon. - Look here, Cutler!
我买了鞋子 I got me some shoes.
伙计 我不鸟你 Nigga, I ain't studying you.
这双鞋花了你多少钱？ How much you pay for something like that, Levee
11美金 其中4块是卡特勒的 Eleven dollars. Four dollars of it belong to Cutler.
勒维说要不是多亏了卡特勒 他可没新鞋穿 Ooh! Levee say if it wasn't for Cutler, he wouldn't have no new shoes.
我才不在乎勒维和他的鞋子 I ain't thinking about Levee or his shoes.
准备排练吧 Let's get ready to rehearse.
同意 我不想整晚待在这里 I'm with you on that score. Don't want to be here all night.
歌单上只有四首歌 Ain't but four songs on the list.
-上次有六首呢 -好 现在就准备好了 -Last time there was six songs. -Yeah. Now I'm ready.
我现在能吹点好音乐了 I can play some good music now.
见鬼了！他们换了东西 明明还好好的 换什么换 Damn! They done changed things around.Don't never leave well enough alone.
万物总在不断变化 Yeah, everything changing all the time.
连你呼吸的空气都在变化 Even the air you breathing change.
是的 有一氧化碳、氢气 一直都在变化 Yeah, you got, uh, monoxide, hydrogen, changing all the time.
皮肤会变化 不同的分子 万事万物都会变化 Skin changing. Different molecules. Everything.
伙计 你在说什么？ Nigga, what is you talking about
我说的是这房间 不是皮肤和空气 I'm talking about the room, I ain't talking about no skin and air.
我说的是眼睛看得见的东西 不是分子 I'm talking about something I can see. I ain't talking about no molecules.
我听懂你的话了 可你没听懂我的话 I know what you talking about. You don't know what I'm talking about.
那扇门 看到了吗？我说的是那个 That door. You see that door That's what I'm talking about.
那扇门原来没有的 Door wasn't there before.
你连左右都分不清 那门原来就有 You wouldn't know your right from left. And damn if that door wasn't there.
如果你是说他们换了房间 那你说对了 If you talking about they done switched rooms, you right.
但别跟我说原来没有那扇门 But don't go telling me that door wasn't there.
别管门不门的 赶紧开始吧 我想离开这里 Damn the door and let's do this. I want to get out of here.
是托雷多先开始说那扇门的 我只是说东西变了 Toledo started all that about the door. I'm just saying that things change.
你以为我说什么呢？ 事物是会变化的 包括空气和一切 What you think I was saying Things change. The air and everything.
现在你会说这是你刚才的话 Now you gonna say you was saying it.
你在同一条轨道上放上两个命题 You gonna fit two propositions on the same track,
让它们朝着彼此撞上去 现在它们撞了 run them into each other, and 'cause they crash,
你能说那是同一列火车吗？ you gonna say it's the same train
现在这老兄谈起火车了 Now this nigga talking about trains.
我们从空气聊到皮肤 再聊到门 现在还聊到火车了 We done went from the air to the skin to the door and now trains.
托雷多 我真想进你大脑里待五分钟 Toledo, I'd just like to be inside your head for five minutes
了解一下你的思考方式 just to see how you think.
你脑子里塞了那么多东西 全混在一起了 You done got more shit piled up and mixed up in there
比恶魔的罪人还多 than the devil got sinners.
你书读太多了 You been reading too many goddamn books.
我读多少书关你什么事？ What you care about how much I read
我要无视你 因为你太无知了 I'm gonna ignore you 'cause you're ignorant.
我们排练吧 Let's rehearse the music.
那种音乐不需要排练 不过是坛罐乐队搞的老式音乐 You ain't gotta rehearse that.Ain't nothing but old jug-band music.
他们需要坛罐乐队来演奏 They need one of them jug bands for this.
只要能拿到钱 有什么所谓？ Don't make no difference to me, long as we get paid.
不 老兄 我不是那个意思 我说的是艺术 That ain't what I'm talking about. I'm talking about art.
画画跟这事有什么关系？ What's drawing got to do with it
卡特勒 这位老兄 你是从哪找来的？ Where you get this nigga from, Cutler
他听起来像是阿拉巴马州来的 He sound like one of them Alabama niggas.
他叫拖步 好吧 就吹那首 伙计 It's Slow Drag, all right.Just play the piece, nigga.
如果你想当那些所谓的大师之流 If you want to be one of them, uh, what you call virtuosos or something,
你就来错地方了 you're in the wrong place.
你可不是奥利弗国王或巴迪博尔登 You ain't no King Oliver or Buddy Bolden.
你不过是普通的小号手 一抓一大把 You're just an old trumpet player come a dime a dozen.
还谈艺术呢 Talking about art.
你是什么来头？ 我可没看到你受万人瞩目 What is you I don't see your name in lights.
他们让我吹什么我就吹什么 我不批评别人的音乐 I just play the piece. Whatever they want. I don't criticize other people's music.
我跟你不一样 我有天分 I ain't like you, Cutler. I got talent.
狗屁 Oh, shit.
我跟这把小号是天作之合 Me and this horn, we's tight.
我爸要是早知道我会有这出息 他会给我起名“加百列” If my daddy had a knowed I was gonna turn out like this,he woulda named me Gabriel.
我会组个自己的乐队录专辑 I'm gonna get me a band and make me some records.
我把我写的歌 给斯特迪文特先生看了 I done give Mr. Sturdyvant some of my songs I wrote,
他说我组了我的乐队 就让我录那些歌 and he say he gonna let me record them when I get my band together.
我得把这首歌最后的部分写完 I just gotta finish the last part of this song.
我知道怎么玩真正的音乐 不是这种坛罐乐队的老东西 I knows how to play real music, not this old jug-band shit.
我有风格 I got style.
每个人都有风格 Oh, everybody got style.
风格就是由始至终保持一个调调 Style ain't nothing but keeping the same idea from beginning to end.
所有人都有风格 Everybody got it.
不是所有人都有我这种造诣 不是所有人都能组自己的乐队 Everybody can't play like I do.Everybody can't have their own band.
在你组自己的乐队 去哪里演奏随你挑之前 Until you get your own band where you can play what you want,
别发牢骚了 赶紧吹这首歌吧 play the piece and stop complaining.
你来这里的时候我就告诉过你 这不是那种一顿猛搞的乐队 I told you when you came on here, this ain't none of them hot bands.
这个乐队负责伴奏 你在这里就得演奏玛的音乐 This is an accompaniment band. You play Ma's music when you're here.
我可不傻 我知道 I got sense enough to know that.
看看你们就知道这个乐队的路子 I could look at y'all and see what kind of band it is.
我看托雷多一眼 就知道这乐队的路子 I could look at Toledo and see what kind of band it is.
我可没跟你说话啊 别挑起这个头儿啊 Oh, now Toledo ain't said nothing to you. Don't get Toledo started now.
你们到底要不要排练？ Is you all gonna rehearse the music or ain't you
你练那些歌曲多少次了？ How many times you done play them songs
-有必要排练吗？ -这是来录音的 - What you gotta rehearse for - This a recording session.
我希望第一次就搞定 然后走人 I want to get it right the first time and get on out of here.
那你们排练吧 Well, y'all go on and rehearse, then.
我要把这首歌写完 给斯特迪文特先生看看 I'm going to finish this song for Mr. Sturdyvant.
勒维 我不想惹麻烦 你得跟大家一起排练 Levee, I don't want no shit. You rehearse like everybody else.
你跟我们一样都是乐队成员 You in the band just like everybody else.
斯特迪文特先生得等等 现在是乐队时间 Mr. Sturdyvant gonna have to wait. It's the band's time.
你想排练的话 我都准备好了 我只是说没有排练的必要 I'm ready if you want to rehearse. I said there ain't no point in it.
玛还没到 排练有什么意义？ Ma ain't here. What's the point
《玛雷尼的黑臀舞》 一、二 得有那个范儿 "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." One, two, you know what to do.
不行 不能那样弄 No, no, no. No, no. We ain't doing it that way.
要按我的版本来 艾尔文先生是这么跟我说的 We doing my version. That's what Mr. Irvin told me.
他给的歌单上写的 Say it's on the list he gave.
歌单的事不用你操心 Let me worry about what's on the list.
排练错误版本怎么说得通啊？ What sense it make to rehearse the wrong version
就得排练要录的歌 You supposed to rehearse what you gonna play.
-我是这样被教导的 -这正是我想说的 - That's the way they taught me. - That's what I'm trying to say.
你是想告诉我 我们练什么不练什么 You trying to tell me what we is and ain't gonna play,
这不关你的事 and that ain't none of your business.
-我让你吹什么就吹什么 -我现在明白了 -Your business is to play what I say. -Oh. I see now.
艾尔文先生用我的版本 让你嫉妒了 You done got jealous 'cause Mr. Irvin using my version.
你有什么值得我嫉妒的？ What I got to be jealous of you about
哪天我要是嫉妒你 还不如死了算了 The day I get jealous of you, I may as well lay down and die.
他说这些话是因为他太懒了 不想排练 Levee started all that 'cause he too lazy to rehearse.
歌单在哪里？看看那上面怎么写的 Where's the paper Look at the paper. See what it say.
不要说我太懒不想排练 Gonna tell me I'm too lazy to rehearse.
现在重要的不是歌单 We ain't talking about the paper.
我们说的是你得明白自己的身份 We talking about you understanding where you fit in here.
-你吹奏我说的歌 -我才不在乎你们演奏什么 - You play what I say. - I don't care what you play.
艾尔文先生会摆平的 我才不在乎你们演奏什么 Mr. Irvin gonna straighten it up. I don't care what you play.
知道玛被什么事耽搁了吗？ You boys know what's keeping Ma
说不准 艾尔文先生 我猜她很快就会到 Can't say, Mr. Irvin. She'll be along directly, I reckon.
你们继续吧 Well, you go ahead.
艾尔文先生 这些歌曲… Mr. Irvin… About these songs…
就是歌单上那些 Whatever's on the list.
我说的是这首《黑臀舞》 I'm talking about this "Black Bottom."
-在歌单上 -是 先生 我知道在歌单上 - It's on the list. - Yes, sir, I know it's on the list.
不过我想知道是哪个版本 我们有两个版本 But I just want to know which version. We got two versions of that song.
勒维的版本 我们用他的改编 Oh, Levee's version. We're using Levee's arrangement.
好的 清楚了 那这首《月光蓝调》 Okay, got that straight. Now about this "Moonshine Blues."
行了 卡特勒 我们会跟玛谈好的 Yeah, we'll work it out with Ma, Cutler.
你们就排练歌单上的歌 You boys just rehearse whatever's on that list.
你看看 我就说了！ See, I told you!
我说的你不信 非得听艾尔文先生亲口说才相信 It don't mean nothing when I say it. You got to wait for Mr. Irvin to say it.
我就跟你说了是这样 I told you the way it is.
你要尽早明白 你的话不重要 The sooner you understand it ain't what you say,
艾尔文先生的话也不重要 重要的是玛的话 or what Mr. Irvin say, it's what Ma say that count.
我不在乎你们演奏什么 我无所谓 I don't care what you play. Don't matter to me.
艾尔文先生会搞定的 我不在乎你们演奏什么 Mr. Irvin gonna straighten it up. I don't care what you play.
谢谢你 好了 我们就练这首《听我对你说》 Thank you. All right, let's, uh, play this "Hear Me Talking to You"
然后再弄清楚 这首《黑臀舞》怎么处理 till we figure out what's going on with this "Black Bottom."
一、二 得有那个范儿 One, two, you know what to do.
玛不在乎别人说什么 她只听从自己的内心 Don't nobody say when it comes to Ma. She gonna do what she wanna do.
是艾尔文先生想发唱片 Mr. Irvin the one putting out the record.
他只会发她想录的歌 He gonna put out what she want him to put out.
勒维搞不明白谁是老大 他不知道是玛说了算 Levee confused about who the boss is. He don't know Ma's the boss.
知道她在纽约卖了多少张唱片吗？ You know how many records she sold in New York
你知道在纽约有什么吗？有哈莱姆区 哈莱姆区就在纽约 And you know what's in New York Harlem. Harlem's in New York.
唱片在纽约卖不好又怎样？ So what if they didn't sell in New York
我们就卖去 孟菲斯、伯明翰、亚特兰大 We packed them in in Memphis, Birmingham, Atlanta.
我们现在不是在孟菲斯 我们在芝加哥 正在录音 We ain't in Memphis. We in Chicago. We in a recording session.
这里由斯特迪文特先生 和艾尔文先生说了算 Mr. Sturdyvant and Mr. Irvin say what's gonna be here.
你们也听见他说的话了 You heard what the man told you.
《玛雷尼的黑臀舞》 勒维的改编版 "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom." Levee's arrangement.
他就是这么说的 There you go. That's what he told you.
我不明白你们为什么要跟我争论这事 I don't know why y'all want to pick with me about it.
我同意拖步的意见 我们练起来吧 I'm with Slow Drag. Let's go and get it rehearsed.
行了 《玛雷尼的黑臀舞》 勒维的改编版 All right, "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," Levee's version.
勒维 第一部分是怎样的？ How that first part go again there, Lev
是这样的 It go like this.
这是用来勾起听众兴趣的 That's to get the people's attention.
这时候你跟拖步加入 带点节奏 That's when you and Slow Drag come in with the rhythm,
我跟卡特勒吹歇段 me and Cutler play on the breaks.
他只是问你第一部分 没问你全部 The man asked how the part go. Ain't ask for all that.
《玛雷尼的黑臀舞》 "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
一、二 得有那个范儿 One, two, you know what to do.
喂 你们得跟上啊 你们的节奏不对 Hey, hey, hey. Y'all gotta keep up now. You playing in the wrong time.
不用你教我们演奏这首歌 我们演奏这歌时 你还没出生呢 Will you let us play this song We been playing before you was born.
不用你来教我们 Trying to tell us how to play.
好了 再试一遍 All right. Let's try again.
等一下 我先把这个调好 Wait a minute. Let me fix this.
琴弦松了 This string starting to unravel,
你们知道我想弹好勒维的音乐 and you know I want to play Levee's music right.
合格的音乐家会照顾好自己的乐器 If you was any kind of musician, you'd take care of your instrument.
让它保持最佳状态 Keep it in tip-top order.
如果你是称职的音乐家 我就让你进我的乐队 If you was any kind of musician, I'd let you be in my band.
-糟了 -妈的！ - Shit. - Damn!
拖步 你的鞋子这么大 小心一点 Slow Drag, watch them big-ass shoes you got.
谁对你做什么了？ Ain't nobody done nothing to you.
-你踩着我的鞋子了 -那你就把鞋子挪开 -You done stepped on my shoes. -Then move them out the way.
是你碍着我了 不是我挡着你 You was in my way. I wasn't in your way.
要明白我的意思 谁花一整周的薪水 Any man who takes a whole week's pay and puts it on some shoes,
去买鞋子 understand what I mean,
穿脚上用来走路 谁就是傻子 what you walk around on the ground with, is a fool.
而且我不介意告诉那傻子 And I don't mind telling him.
你有什么在乎的？ What difference it make to you
穿好鞋没什么不对的 Ain't nothing wrong with having nice shoes.
看看托雷多 Look at Toledo.
怎么了？ What
托雷多怎么了？ What was that about Toledo
这老兄穿的鞋子很笨重 Nigga got them clodhoppers. Old brogans.
旧布罗根鞋 十足像个佃农 He ain't nothing but a sharecropper.
嘿 拖步 Hey, Slow Drag.
给我来点音乐 Play something for me.
要像这样跳舞就得穿上好鞋子 A man gotta have some shoes to dance like this.
穿托雷多那种笨重的鞋子 可跳不出这种舞步 He can't dance like this with them clodhoppers Toledo got.
黑人就这毛病 总是找机会享乐 That's the trouble with colored folks, always looking to have a good time.
为了享乐而丧命的黑人 More niggas have got killed trying to have a good time
多得连上帝都数不过来 than God got ways to count.
享乐到底是什么意思？我真搞不懂 What the hell having a good time mean That's what I want to know.
人中生不只有享乐 还有别的奔头 Got to be more to life than just having a good time.
要是没有别的奔头 那活得就太憋屈了 If there ain't, then this is a piss-poor life we're living
如果只有享乐 那不活也没什么可惜 if that's all there is to be got out of it.
你出生之前 黑人就重视及时行乐 Niggas been having a good time before you was born,
你死后 他们依然会及时行乐 and they gonna keep having a good time after you gone.
没人谈论改善美国黑人的生活 Nobody talking about making the lot for the colored man
没人考虑他们会给子孙后代 留下一个什么样的世界 Ain't nobody thinking about what kind of life,the world they gonna leave for the young'uns.
大家只想着：“让我玩得开心 我别无他求” It's just, "Show me a good time. That's all I want."
这让我心里特难受 Aw. It just makes me sick.
有享乐的生活才值得过 Good times is what makes life worth living.
我跟所有人一样懂得如何行乐 Hey, I know how to have a good time as well as the next man.
是啊 Yeah.
但生活中必须有别的追求 不能只求享乐 I just said there's got to be more to life than just having a good time.
黑人应该更有作为 I said, the colored man ought to be doing more
而不是一味想着及时行乐 than trying to have a good time all the time.
那你在干什么 老兄？ Well, what is you doing, nigga
你说这些冠冕堂皇的想法 You're talking all them highfalutin ideas
说要为黑人创造一个更好的世界 about making a better world for the colored man.
你在做些什么 让这世界变美好？ What is you doing to make it better
你在玩音乐 在找下一个马子 跟我们一样 You playing the music and looking for your next piece of pussy same as we is.
你有何作为？ What is you doing
不只是说我 傻子 我说的是所有人 It ain't just me, fool. I said everybody.
你以为我能凭一己之力 解决黑人的问题？ You think I'm gonna solve the colored man's problem all by myself
我说的是“我们” 你明不明白？ I said "we." You understand that
“我们”是指 生活在这世界上的每一个黑人 We That's every living colored man in the world
他们必须发一分光 尽一分力 got to do his share, got to do his part.
我不是说我或者你该怎么做 I ain't talking about what I'm gonna do or you gonna do,
也不是说卡特勒、拖步或其他任何人 or Cutler, Slow Drag, anybody else.
我是说我们所有人 必须同心协力做的事 I'm talking about what all of us gonna do together.
那才是我要说的重点 老弟 That's what I'm talking about, nigga.
那你直说不就得了？ Well, why ain't you just say that then
我不明白你为什么跟这傻子浪费时间 Toledo, I don't know why you waste your time with this fool.
我很快就不跟你们这些傻子混了 I ain't gonna be too many more of your fools.
没有人在乎你 Ain't nobody studying you.
-我不是平庸之辈 别理我 -不是平庸之辈 是恶魔 -All right, I ain't nobody. Don't pay me no mind. -Ain't nobody but the devil.
说得在理 我什么都不是 我只是恶魔 There you go. That's who I am.I'm the devil. I ain't nothing but the devil.
我认识一个人 向恶魔出卖了灵魂 I know a man sold his soul to the devil.
他叫伊莱萨科特 住在阿拉巴马的塔斯卡卢萨县 Name of Eliza Cotter. Lived in Tuscaloosa County, Alabama.
恶魔来了 他就出卖了自己的灵魂 Devil came by and he upped and sold him his soul.
你怎么知道他向恶魔出卖了灵魂？ Nigga, how you know this man done sold his soul to the devil
你在胡说八道 像个老太婆 You talking some old-woman foolishness.
大家都知道 那不是秘密 Everybody know. It wasn't no secret.
他替恶魔卖命 所有人都知道 He went around working for the devil and everybody knowed it.
他提着一个袋子 那种毛毡袋 Carried him a bag. One of them carpet bags.
大家说他随身带着恶魔的契约 Folks say he carried the devil's papers and whatnot
他会让你沾着血 在那纸上盖下指印 where he put your fingerprint on the paper with blood.
他现在在哪里？我想知道 Where he at now That's what I want to know.
我可以给他印整个手印 He can have my whole handprint if he want to.
他有一天突然出现 Showed up one day all fancied out
穿着黑人穿过的最精致华贵的衣服 in the finest clothes you ever seen on a colored man.
兜里塞满了钱 过着富人的生活 Pocketful of money, just living the life of a rich man.
他身边有一群女人前呼后拥 Had him a string of women he run around with
大把大把地花他的钱 and throw his money away on.
他的一个相好跟一个男的搞上了 One of the fellas of them gals he was messing with
那男的对伊莱萨不敬 伊莱萨就把他干掉了 got fixed on him wrong and Eliza killed him.
还把这事当笑话呢 And laughed about it.
警长把他抓了起来 又把他放走了 Sheriff come and arrest him and let him go.
开庭审判了 法官判他无罪 Trial come up. Judge cut him loose.
不仅判他无罪 还送了他一瓶威士忌 Cut him loose and give him a bottle of whiskey.
大家问他发生了什么事 让他变了 Folks ask what done happened to make him change,
他毫不隐瞒 说他把灵魂卖给恶魔了 and he tell them straight-out he done sold his soul to the devil
还问他们要不要出卖灵魂 and asked them if they wanted to sell theirs, too,
说他可以替他们安排一下 'cause he could arrange it for them.
这家伙后来怎么样了？我想知道 Hold on. What happened to this fella That's what I want to know.
据我所知 他带着那个袋子北上了 Last I heard, he headed up north with that bag of his,
遇着愿意跟恶魔交易的人 就给一百美钞 handing out $100 bills on the spot to whoever wanted to sign on with the devil.
真想知道他去哪儿了 Hmm. I sure wish I knew where he went.
他立马就能说服我做交易 He wouldn't have to convince me long.
妈的 我甚至会帮他搞几个人签约 Hell, I'd even help him sign people up.
伙计 你满嘴亵渎上帝的话 你肯定会被上帝用雷劈 Nigga, God gonna strike you down with that blasphemy you talking.
狗屁 上帝对我来说什么都不是 Oh, shit. God don't mean nothing to me.
让他惩罚我吧 我就站在这儿 Let him strike me. Here I am, standing right here.
说什么他用雷劈我的话 让他劈我 我不怕他 What you talking about he gonna strike me Here I am. Let him strike me.I ain't scared of him.
好了 你会后悔的 All right. You gonna be sorry.
你这是自找霉头 You gonna fix yourself to have bad luck.
什么都救不了你 Ain't nothing gonna work out for you.
-霉头？ -对 - Bad luck - Yeah.
我才不在乎什么霉头 What I care about bad luck
你说话不经大脑 You talking simple.
我这辈子就没交过好运 I ain't had nothing but bad luck all my life.
不能比这更差了 我还在乎什么霉头？ Couldn't get no worse. What the hell I care about bad luck
我每天早上把霉头当早饭吃 I eat it every day for breakfast.
你说什么霉头不霉头的 比我想象中还蠢 You dumber than I thought you was, talking about bad luck.
好啊 小子 All right, nigga.
你走着瞧吧 You'll see.
傻子怎么教都教不懂 Can't tell a fool nothing.
你走着瞧吧 You'll see.
我们到了 Oh. There you go.
就是那里 Over there.
你在干什么？ What are you doing
卡特勒 你们的三明治到了 Cutler, your boys' sandwiches are here.
-卡特勒？ -女士… - Cutler - Lady...
这车子是全新的 原本没有一点刮痕 - This is a brand new car. - Lady...Ain't had but a ding.
-好的 女士… -你要怎么做？ - Okay, lady... - What you gonna do
-玛！ -我是说… - Ma! - I'm talking...
我有眼睛 你也有眼睛 你打算怎么做？ I got eyes, you got eyes. What are you gonna do
发生了什么事？ What happened
告诉他我是谁 Tell this man who I am. Get him straight.
告诉他 他是在招惹谁 Tell this man who he's messing with.
警官 发生什么事了？ Officer, what's the matter What's the problem
我走过来的时候 这位女士… When I walked up on the incident, this lady...
-西尔维斯特把玛的车撞了 -我没有 是那家伙撞上来的 - Sylvester wrecked Ma's car. - I… I did not. The man hit me.
给你长话短说？ You want it in a nutshell
我们起诉她攻击、殴打他人 We got her charged with assault and battery.
-攻击？ -刚才是西尔维斯特在开车… - Assault and what for what - Sylvester was driving...
我来告诉你事件经过 I can tell you what happened if you wanna know.
他是我侄子 他刚才开着我的车… That's my nephew. That's Sylvester. He was driving my car...
-我们不知道这车是谁的 -这是玛的车 - We don't know whose car it is. - That's Ma's car.
车是我花钱买的 I bought and paid for that car.
这是你说的话 我们必须查证 That's what you say. We gotta check it out.
有什么问题？ What's the problem
我正打算叫警车 I was calling the paddy wagon
把他们拖去警局 把事情弄清楚 to haul them to the station, sort everything out.
-可她开始攻击另一位司机… -是他先动手的 - She's aggressive with the other driver... - He got ugly with me.
-我不知道你为什么撒谎 -让我把经过说完？ - I don't know why you tell that lie. - You let me tell the story
你要说就得好好说 Well, if you gonna tell it, tell it right.
我刚才说了 我正在等警车 Like I said, while I was waiting for the paddy wagon,
我过来听这家伙的说法 I turn to hear this guy's side of the story.
可她一句话都不让他说 She won't let him get a word in edgeways.
他走到她前面 想说出自己的看法 He steps in front of her to tell his version of things,
她就把他推倒在地上 she pushes him to the ground.
她没有打他 是他自己摔的 She ain't hit him. He just fell.
你胡说八道 我根本没有碰那男人 If that don't beat all to hell. I ain't touched the man.
玛 好了 警官 借一步说话？ All right, Ma. Officer, can I speak to you for a minute
我有事要做 I got things to do.
他撞上我 自己摔倒了 像个破布娃娃一样撞在地上 He bumped into me and fell down.Flopping on the ground like a rag doll.
我没有碰那个家伙 I ain't touch the man.
好了 玛 All right, Ma.
快点 把车开走 Come on. Let's go. Move it out.
我全都搞定了 I got it all taken care of.
散了吧 走吧 Clear it out. Come on. Let's go.
怎么回事？你做了什么？ What's going on What did you do
离我远一点 我现在不想你来烦我 Sturdyvant, get on away from me.That's the last through your shit.
-大家动起来吧 -这里不适合 - Everybody move along. - It's not the place.
玛 往这边 Here, Ma.
你的东西我来拿 Let me take your things.
-我们应该没见过面 -嗨 - I don't believe we've met. - Hi.
我侄子西尔维斯特 那位是杜茜梅 That's my nephew Sylvester, and that there's Dussie Mae.
-你们好 -人都到齐了？ - Oh, hello. - Everybody here
他们在乐队室里 They're in the band room.
-梅 你坐下来休息一下 -我不要坐 - Ma, why don't you sit and relax - I ain't for no sitting.
-洗手间在哪？ -在那个大厅 - Where's the bathroom - Uh, down that hall.
给他们打个电话 看看我的车怎样了 今天得把它修好 Honey, call down there and see about my car. I need my car fixed today.
为什么把这里弄得这么热？ Why y'all keep it so hot in here
想录唱片最好在这里弄台风扇 Y'all want to make records, better get a fan on.
交给我吧 玛 我会搞定一切 I got it, Ma. I'll take care of everything.
她迟到了 而且还… She's late and already...
我昨晚跟她谈过 都谈好了 I talked to her last night. Got everything straight.
你别过问 我来处理 You stay out of the way. Let me handle it.
上次就是你处理的 记得吗？ You handled it last time, remember
她大摇大摆进来 把这当成自己的家 抱怨说这地方太冷了 She marches in like she owns the place, complains about the building being cold,
被一根麦克风线绊倒 然后威胁说要起诉我 trips over a mic wire, then threatens to sue me.
我从来没进过录音室 I ain't never been in a recording studio.
乐队在哪里？ Where the band at
他们在别的地方排练 They off somewhere rehearsing.
过来给我看看你的裙子 Come over here and let me see that dress.
这裙子好看 That dress look nice.
我明天要先带你去买点东西 I'm gonna take you tomorrow to get you some things
再带你去孟菲斯 before I take you down to Memphis.
他们那里有些衣服在孟菲斯买不到 They got some clothes up here they ain't got in Memphis.
我要你为我打扮得漂漂亮亮的 I want you to look nice for me, hmm
你要跟着节目组一起巡回 就得穿得漂亮 You gonna travel with the show, you gotta look nice.
我只需要新鞋 我穿这些鞋子会脚疼 I just need me some new shoes. These hurt my feet.
挤脚的鞋就别穿了 Oh, don't you be messing around with no shoes that pinch your feet.
玛知道脚疼有多痛苦 Ma knows something about bad feet. Mmm.
好了 Okay.
去那边 把我的拖鞋从包里拿出来 Go on, get my slippers out my bag over yonder.
我想买黄色的鞋子 I just want some of them yellow ones.
大半个码就行 About a half size bigger.
你需要什么 我都买给你 也会买给西尔维斯特 We'll get you whatever you need. Sylvester too.
西尔维斯特 把衣服塞好 Sylvester, tuck your clothes in.
弄平整了 要有绅士的样子 Straighten them up and look nice. Like a gentleman.
你看西尔维斯特戴着那帽子 Look at Sylvester with that hat on.
在屋里就把帽子摘了 过来 别弄那架钢琴 Take that hat off inside. Come over here and leave that piano.
我没有弄钢琴 我只是在看着它 I ain't doing nothing to the… piano. I'm… I… looking at it.
孩子 过来 坐下 Baby, come over here and sit down. Come on.
艾尔文先生一回来 Soon as Mr. Irvin come back,
我就让他把你介绍给乐队 I'm gonna have him take you down, introduce you to the band.
卡特勒会告诉你该怎么做 Cutler gonna show you how your part go.
你拿到了钱 寄点回家给你妈 When you get your money, send some of it home to your mama.
-让她知道你很好 -好的 - Let her know you're doing all right. - Okay.
玛 我打电话给修车行 问你的车了 Ma, I called down to the garage and checked on your car.
刮花了一点 他们下午能给你修好 It's just a scratch, and they'll have it ready for you this afternoon.
他们会派个人把车送过来 They'll send it over with one of their fellows.
最好把我的车修好了 Better have my car fixed right.
崭新的车子 他们最好把它刷得像新的一样 I ain't going for that. Brand-new car. They better fix it like new.
艾尔文 那是什么声音？ Irvin, what is that I hear
我知道他们没排练 勒维改编的《黑臀舞》 I know they ain't rehearsing Levee's "Black Bottom."
我不要听那个 I know I ain't hearing that.
我正想跟你谈这事 Ma, it's what I wanted to talk to you about.
勒维的改编让这歌有活力 Levee's version, it really picks it up.
我不在乎勒维干些什么 我知道他对那首歌做了什么 I ain't studying Levee nothing. I know what he done to that song.
我不喜欢那样唱 我要按老调来唱 I don't like to sing it that way. I'm doing it the old way.
所以我带了我侄子来 让他说介绍词 That's why I brought my nephew in here to do the voice intro.
现在的人想要这个 他们喜欢伴舞的音乐 That's what people want now, Ma. They want something they can dance to.
勒维的改编就能满足大家的需求 Levee's arrangement gives the people what they want.
能让听的人兴奋起来 忘却烦恼 It makes them excited, forget about their troubles.
亲爱的 我不管你说什么 勒维不能乱搞我的歌 I don't care what you say, honey. Levee ain't messing up my song.
如果他能满足大众需求 让他去别的地方玩儿去 If he got what the people want, let him take it somewhere else.
我要唱我的歌 不是勒维的歌 I'm singing Ma Rainey's song, not Levee's song.
没什么好说的 Now that's all there is to it.
带我侄子过去 把他介绍给乐队 Carry my nephew on down there. Introduce him to the band.
我答应过我妹妹会照顾他的 I promised my sister I'd look out for him,
所以让他说介绍词 我按我的方式唱 so he's gonna do the voice intro to the song my way.
我们想着… We just figured...
“我们”是谁？ 你搬出“我们”来说事 什么意思？ Who's this "we" What you mean "we" Come talking this "we" stuff. Who "we"
-斯特迪文特和我 我们决定了… -你们决定了？我不过是块木头 -Me and Sturdyvant. We decided... -You decided, huh I'm just a bump on a log.
随波逐流 I'm just gonna go whichever way the river drift.
是这样吗？你和斯特迪文特决定了 Is that it You and Sturdyvant decided
-不是 我们就是想着… -我没有品味 - No. We just thought... - I ain't got no good sense.
我对音乐一窍不通 分辨不出歌曲好坏 I know nothing about music or what a good song is or what ain't.
你们比我更了解我的歌迷 You know more about my fans than I do.
不是那样的 更重要的是大众的品味 It's not that. It's more of what the people want.
我跟你说吧 你可以上去告诉斯特迪文特 Tell you something, Irvin, and you can go up there and you can tell Sturdyvant too.
你们说的话对我不起作用 明白吗？ What you all say don't count with me, you understand
我只听从自己内心的声音 Ma listen to her heart. Ma listen to the voice inside her.
只有这个对我管用 That's what count with Ma.
把我侄子带过去 Carry my nephew on down there.
告诉卡特勒 让我侄子说《黑臀舞》开头的介绍词 Tell Cutler he'll do the voice intro to the "Black Bottom" song.
不能让勒维乱搞 Levee ain't messing up my song.
你和斯特迪文特不接受的话 If that don't set right with you and Sturdyvant,
我可以把我的《黑臀舞》 带去南方巡回演唱 I can carry my black bottom on back down South to my tour,
因为我不喜欢这里 'cause I don't like it up here noways.
好吧 玛 Okay, Ma.
我不在乎 I don't care.
-我只是想… -你想个屁！ - I just thought... - Damn what you thought!
你以为自己算老几 有资格教我唱我自己的歌？ What you look like trying to tell me how to sing my song.
那个勒维和斯特迪文特算什么狗屁 我不买帐 That Levee and Sturdyvant shit, I ain't going for it.
西尔维斯特 去自我介绍一下 我跟艾尔文谈完了 Sylvester, go introduce yourself. I'm through playing with Irvin.
我去哪里？他们在哪边？ Uh… Where I go Which way they at
来吧 我亲自带你过去 Come on. I'll carry you down there myself.
我可以去吗？我想看看乐队 Can I go I want to see the band.
不行 来吧 西尔维斯特 No. Come on, Sylvester.
好吧 玛 随便你 Okay, Ma. Have it your way,
但我们要准备好 15分钟后录音 but we'll be ready to go in 15 minutes.
我说准备好才准备好 这里我说了算 We'll be ready to go when Madam says so.That's the way it go around here.
好极了 Perfect.
卡特勒 这是我侄子西尔维斯特 Cutler, this here my nephew Sylvester.
《黑臀舞》开头的介绍让他来说 按老版本唱 He'll do the voice intro on "Black Bottom" using the old version.
什么？艾尔文先生说了要用我的版本 What Mr. Irvin said we're using my version.
我不在乎你或者艾尔文先生 I ain't studying you or Mr. Irvin.
卡特勒 教他怎么说他那些词 Cutler, get him straightened out on how to do his part.
我不在乎勒维 I ain't thinking about Levee.
这些家伙惹错人了 These folks done messed with the wrong person.
卡特勒会教你说你那部分 快学吧 要学好了 Cutler gonna teach you how to do your part. Go ahead and get it straight.
别管其他人说什么闲话 Don't worry about what nobody else say.
来吧 年轻人 我叫卡特勒 Hey, come on in, boy. I'm Cutler.
这是托雷多、勒维 那边那位是拖步 That's Toledo, Levee, and Slow Drag over there.
-你叫西尔维斯特吧？ -西尔维斯特布朗 - Sylvester, huh - Sylvester Brown.
那首歌我写了一个版本 I wrote a version of that song,
把它变得更有活力 能让听众非常喜欢 what picks it up and sets it down in the people's lap,
可她却来说这个 and here she come talking this.
我们不需要马戏团风格的歌曲 我知道自己在说什么 You don't need that old circus bullshit. I know what I'm talking about.
卡特勒 你会把这首歌搞砸的 你心里清楚 You gonna mess up the song, Cutler, and you know it.
-我不会搞砸的 玛说… -我不在乎玛说什么 -I ain't gonna mess up nothing. Ma say... -I don't care what Ma say!
我说的是开头介绍对这首歌的影响 I'm talking about what the intro gonna do to the song.
北方的人不会接受马戏团风格的老调 The peoples in the North ain't gonna go for that old tent-show nonsense.
-他们想听真正的音乐 -小子 - They wanna hear some music. - Nigga.
我跟你说过很多遍了 轮不到你做决定 玛说了算 I done told you time and again. Ma say what to play, not you.
你不是来这里创作的 得按玛说的去做 You ain't here to be doing no creating. You play whatever Ma say.
我或许就不表演了 或许直接退出 I might not play nothing. I might just quit.
小子 你退出可没有人会在乎 你以为你能伤谁的心呢？ Nigga, don't nobody care if you quit. Whose heart you gonna break
勒维不会退出的 他需要钱买漂亮的鞋子穿 Levee ain't gonna quit.He need to make money to keep him in shoe polish.
我说过了 你们都不了解我 你们不了解我的能力 I done told y'all you don't know me. You don't know what I'll do.
没有人在乎 西尔维斯特 听好了 I don't think nobody give a damn. Sylvester, look here.
乐队奏起前奏 然后你就说 The band plays the intro, and then you say,
“好了 诸位 表演大家看过千千万 "All right, boys, you done seen the rest."
今天让各位见识大家风范 "Now I'm gonna show you the best."
玛雷尼将为大家 献上她的《黑臀舞》” "Ma Rainey's gonna show you her black bottom."
记住了吗？说一遍给我听听 You got that Heh. All right, let me hear you do it one time.
好了 诸位 表演… All right, boys, you done s… s…
大家看过千千万 …seen the rest.
今天让各位见识大家风范 Now I'm gonna show you the best.
玛雷尼将为大家献上她的《黑… Ma Rainey's gonna show you her black b… b… b…
臀舞》 …bottom.
好吧 卡特勒 让我看看你怎么解决这个 All right, Cutler. Let me see you fix that.
把他的舌头撸直了 Straighten that out.
拖步 你听到那段话了吗？ Slow Drag, whoo, you hear this shit
这小子连话都说不清楚 怎么能开场？ How in the hell the boy gonna do the part if he can't even talk
臭小子 你有什么资格对我说三道四？ Who… Who's you to tell me what to do, nigga
这不是你的乐队 玛让我开场 我就开场 This ain't your band. Ma tell me to d… do it, I'mma do it.
你滚一边去吧…臭小子 So you can go to hell… n… n… nigga.
小子 没人在乎你 卡特勒 搞定这个吧 B… Boy, ain't nobody studying you. Cutler, go on and fix that.
你要能调教好他 我就给你擦鞋 You fix that and I'll shine your shoes for you.
赶紧调教调教这家伙 Go on and fix that one.
你说你是玛的侄子？ You say, uh, you Ma's nephew
是啊 你这话什么意思？ Yeah, so what that mean
我没别的意思 就是问问 Oh, I ain't meant nothing. I was just asking.
我们排练吧 好让这小子练好了 Let's rehearse so the boy can get it right.
我才不要排练 I ain't rehearsing nothing.
等着我组好自己的乐队吧 Just wait till I get my band together.
到时我就让你们听听 那首歌该怎么唱 I'm gonna record that song and show you how it's supposed to go.
没了勒维我们也可以 西尔维斯特 记得你的词吗？ We can do it without Levee. Sylvester, you remember your part
记得 记得挺牢的 Yeah, I… I remember pretty g… good.
那就来吧 我们练一练 Well, come on. Let's do it then. All right
勒维 Levee.
好 我看到你们在排练 Good, you boys are rehearsing, I see.
是嘞 先生 我们在排练 我们对这些歌了如指掌 Yessir, we rehearsing. We know them songs real good.
很好 勒维 你那首歌写好了吗？ Good. Say, Levee, did you finish that song
好嘞 斯特迪文特先生 在这儿 Yessir, Mr. Sturdyvant. I got it right here.
我按您的要求写了那部分 是这样的… I wrote that other part just like you say. It go like…
我还写了让大家跳舞那部分 Then I wrote that part for the other people to dance,
照您说的 要让他们忘却烦恼 like you say, for them to forget about their troubles.
很好 我有时间就看你的歌 Good. I'll see about your songs as soon as I get the chance.
-这个交给我吧 -好嘞 斯特迪文特先生 - I'll just take this. - Yessir, Mr. Sturdyvant.
您一有时间就看看 Soon as you get the chance.
你们听到这小子的话吗？ “是嘞 先生 我们在排练 老大” You hear Levee You hear this nigga "Yessir, we's rehearsing, boss."
我听到了 也看到了 直跺脚 I heard him. Seen him too. Shuffling them feet.
是啊 勒维按捺不住了 Yeah, well, Levee can't help it none.
他被白人吓着了 没时间看透他们 He's spooked up by the white man. Ain't had time to study 'em.
我看透了白人 彻底看透了他们 I studies the white man, I got him studied good.
谁敢惹我 我就给他好看 The first time one fixes on me wrong, I'm gonna show him just how much I study.
说什么我被白人吓着了 Come tell me I'm spooked up by the white man.
你让白人来招惹我 我就让你看看我的厉害 You let one mess with me, I'll show you how spooked up I am.
那家伙进来把你当孙子 The man come in here, call you a boy,
让你起来排练 tell you to get up off your ass and rehearse,
你只会说：“好嘞！” and you ain't had nothing to say except, "Yessir!"
我喜欢说“好嘞”就说“好嘞” 你管得着吗？ I can say "yessir" to whoever I please. What you got to do with it
我应付白人32年了 I know how to handle white folks. I been handling them for 32 years.
你要教我怎么做吗？ You gonna tell me how to do it
我说“好嘞” 并不代表我被他吓着了 Just 'cause I say "yessir," don't mean I'm spooked up by him.
我知道自己在干什么 我自会应付他 I know what I'm doing. Let me handle him my way.
那就去应付呀 Well, go and handle it then.
托雷多 你总是得罪别人 Toledo, you always messing with somebody.
总用那一套高深难懂的狗屁 去激怒别人 Always agitating somebody with that old philosophy bullshit.
我做什么说什么犯不着你管 You stay out of my way about what I do and say.
我自个儿会处理 别烦我 I'm my own person. Just let me alone.
好了 勒维 你说得对 我道歉 All right, all right. Levee, you right. I apologize.
你被那白人吓坏了不关我的事 Ain't none of my business you spooked up by the white man.
没错 我就是这个意思 See, that's the shit I'm talking about.
你们晾一边去 别烦我 Y'all back up and leave Levee alone.
别这样 我们刚才就是逗你玩的 Oh, come on, Levee. We was all just having fun.
托雷多并不是对你或对我说三道四 Toledo ain't said nothing about you he ain't said about me.
你全误会了 You just taking it all wrong.
我那些话没别的意思 I ain't meant nothing by it.
勒维就是勒维！ Levee got to be Levee!
我不需要任何人用白人的事来烦我！ He don't need nobody messing with him about the white man!
因为你们不了解我 你们不了解勒维 'Cause you don't know nothing about me. You don't know Levee.
你们不了解我的身世！ You don't know nothing about what kind of blood I got!
不了解我的内心！ What kind of a heart I got beating here!
我八岁的时候 I was eight years old
有一群白人进了我家 when a gang of white mans come into my daddy's house
糟蹋我妈 为所欲为 and have to do with my mama any way they want.
我们当时住在杰斐逊县 离纳奇兹大约有13公里 We was living in Jefferson County, about eight miles outside of Natchez.
我爸叫孟菲斯 孟菲斯利格林 My daddy's name was Memphis. Memphis Lee Green.
他有近300亩耕地 产量高 我说的可是好耕地 Had him near 50 acres of good farming land. I'm talking good land.
种什么长什么 Grow anything you want.
哈利先生去世后 我爸花光了积蓄 He done gone off of shares and bought this land
从哈利先生的寡妇手里买了那片地 from Mr. Hallie's widow woman after he done passed on.
大家都说他乌鸦想当凤凰 因为他想办法存钱、借钱 Folks called him a uppity nigger 'cause he done saved and borrowed
买下了那片地 自己当家作主 to where he could buy this land and be independent.
当时快到播种种植的季节 It was coming on planting time,
我爸去了纳奇兹买种子和肥料 and my daddy went into Natchez to get him some seed and fertilizer.
他叫我 说：“勒维 现在这个家就交给你了 Called me, say, "Levee, you the man of the house now."
我不在家的时候 照顾好你妈妈” "Take care of your mama while I'm gone."
我当时不过是个小男孩 I wasn't but a little boy.
才八岁 Eight years old.
我妈妈… My mama…
正在炸鸡肉 他们进了我们家 Was frying up some chicken when them mans come in the house.
应该有八、九个人 Must have been eight or nine of 'em.
她站在那里 炸着鸡块 他们一把抓住了她 She's standing there frying that chicken when them mans come and took a hold of her
就像人抓住一头驴 让驴逆来顺受一样 just like you take hold of a mule and make it do what you want.
当时我妈… There was my mama…
对付一群白种男人 With a gang of white mans.
她试着反抗他们 She tried to fight 'em off.
但我能看到那对她没有好处 I could see where it wasn't gonna do her any good.
我当时不懂他们在对她做什么 I didn't know what they was doing to her,
但我想他们可能也会那样对我 but I figured whatever it was, they might as well do to me too.
我爸有一把刀子 留着打猎、做工之类用的 My daddy had a knife he kept around there for hunting and working and whatnot.
我知道刀子放在哪里 我去拿了刀子 And I knew where he kept it. I went and got it.
我告诉你们 我当时被白人吓得有多惨 I'm gonna show you how spooked up I was by the white man.
我用尽全力 想割断其中一个家伙的喉咙 I tried my damnedest to cut one of them's throat.
我刺中了他的肩膀 I hit him on the shoulder.
他握住了那把刀 把它扎进了我的胸口 He reached back, grabbed hold of that knife,and whacked me across the chest with it.
那样才让他们停了下来 That's what made them stop.
他们怕我会失血过多死掉 They was scared I was gonna bleed to death.
我妈用一张毯子把我包了起来 My mama wrapped me in a blanket,
抱着我 走了3公里路 去到费罗 carried me two miles down to the Furlow place
他们开车送我去了阿尔班斯医生那里 and they drove me up to Doc Albans.
他当时正在给牛接生 说没时间治我 He was waiting on a calf to be born, and he say he ain't had time to see me.
他们把我送去了接生婆艾塔小姐那里 They carried me to Miss Etta, the midwife,
是她救了我 and she fixed me up.
我爸回来了 My daddy came back
他装出一副认命的样子 and acted like he done accepted the facts of what happened.
但妈妈把那些男人的名字告诉了他 He got the names of them mans from Mama.
他搞清楚了那些人的身份 He found out who they was,
后来我们跟大家说 我们要从那个县搬走 and then we announced we was moving out that county.
跟所有邻居道别 We said goodbye to everybody, all the neighbors.
其中有一个是糟蹋过我妈的白人人渣 My daddy went and smiled in the face of one of them crackers
我爸对着他满脸堆笑 who had been with my mama.
他面带笑容… Smiled in his face…
把我们的地卖了给那个人渣 And sold him our land.
我们搬去了考德威尔 跟亲戚住 We moved over with relations in Caldwell.
他把我们安顿好 He got us settled in,
有一天 他离开了 从此以后 我再也没见过他 and then he took off one day. I ain't never seen him since.
他偷偷地回去了 He sneaked back.
躲在树林里 Hiding up in the woods,
想办法搞死那八九个人渣 laying to get them eight or nine men.
他干掉了其中四个 就被他们抓住了 He got four of them before they got him.
他们追他追到了树林里 They tracked him down in the woods.
追上了他 把他吊了起来… Caught up with him, hung him…
把他烧死了 Set him afire.
我爸没有被白人吓倒 没有 先生 My daddy wasn't spooked up by the white man. No, sir.
那件事教会了我要怎样对付他们 And that taught me how to handle them.
我亲眼看着我爸咧着嘴 去到那人渣面前 I seen my daddy go up and grin in this cracker's face.
他表面上笑着把地卖给了那个人渣 Smile in his face and sell him his land.
同时在心里计划该怎样扳倒他 All the while, he's planning how he's gonna get him
该怎样对付他 and what he's gonna do to him.
那件事教会了我怎样应付白人 That taught me how to handle them.
所以你们滚一边去 别再用白人的事来奚落我 So you all just back up and leave Levee alone about the white man.
只要我乐意 我可以笑着对任何人说“好嘞” I can smile and say "yessir" to whoever I please.
我最终会出人头地的 I got my time coming to me.
你们大家别再用白人的事来奚落我 You all just leave Levee alone about the white man.
所有人 Everybody
所有人都来自 非洲各个不同的地方 对吧？ Everybody come from different places in Africa, right
不同的部落之类的 Different tribes and things.
很快 他们就开始融为一炉 Soon awhile they began to make one big stew.
这边有胡萝卜、豆子 You had your, uh, carrots and your peas,
还有土豆 and your potatoes over here.
而那边呢 有肉和坚果 And over there, you had your meat and nuts,
秋葵、玉米 uh, okra, corn.
你把这一大锅拌匀了 好好地煮 直到香气四溢 And you mix it up, cook it real good to where the flavors flow through.
然后你得到一个东西 And then you got one thing.
一锅炖菜 You got a stew.
你盛一点炖菜 把它吃了 Now you take and you eat that stew.
你用那锅炖菜来创造你的历史 You take and you make your history with that stew.
但你环顾四周 发现那边有点胡萝卜 But you look around and you see some carrots over there,
这边有点豆子 and some peas over here.
可…那锅炖菜还在 And… that stew is still there.
你的历史已经完成了 可炖菜还在 Hmm. You done made your history and it's still there.
你不能把它全吃完 You can't eat it all.
你得到了什么？ What you got
不过是些剩菜 那就是剩菜 You got some leftovers. That's what it is.
你们瞧 我们就是剩菜 黑人就是剩菜 See, we's the leftovers. The colored man, he is the leftovers. Huh.
黑人该拿他们自己怎么办？ What's the colored man gonna do with himself
我们都等着想知道答案 That's what we're waiting to find out.
但他首先得知道自己是一盘剩菜 But first he's got to know that he's a leftover.
艾尔文先生 Mr. Irvin.
这跟我没关系 但是… I ain't got nothing to do with it, but…
那小子做不来 The boy can't do the part.
他每次都说得结结巴巴的 He stutters right through it every time.
不过这是另一种黑臀舞 完全不同的风格 It's a whole different bottom, though. It's a whole different style.
放松 深呼吸 不会有问题的 Relax and breathe, and everything's gonna be all right.
我会给你提示 让你开始… I'm just gonna cue you in…
我知道要踩在第四拍上 不用你来告诉我 I know where the four is, man. Don't got to tell me nothing.
你要微笑 把那几句话说出来 然后我们就开始 You're gonna smile and say the line. Then we gonna get goin'.
-卡特勒 -女士？ - Cutler. - Ma'am
我知道是在第四拍… I know it's on the four…
勒维盯上不该看的东西了 卡特勒 你最好教育教育他 Levee got his eyes in the wrong place. You better school him, Cutler.
勒维 来吧 准备好演奏了 心思放在工作上 Come on, Levee. Let's get ready to play. Keep your mind on your work.
好了 伙计们 我们开始 Okay, boys. Here we go. Here we go. Here we go.
先是《月光蓝调》 玛 "Moonshine Blues" first. "Moonshine Blues," Ma.
我不唱《月光蓝调》 我要先唱《黑臀舞》 I ain't doing no moonshine nothing. I'm doing "Black Bottom" first.
快点 西尔维斯特的麦克风呢？ 艾尔文 给他个麦克风 Come on, Sylvester. Where's Sylvester's mic Irvin, get him a mic.
玛 伙计们说他做不来 Uh… Ma, the boys say he can't do it.
谁？是谁说他做不来的？ 哪些伙计说他做不来？ Who Who say he can't do it What boys say he can't do it
玛 是乐队的伙计们说的 The band, Ma. The boys in the band.
什么乐队？ What band
乐队为我工作 Band work for me.
他口吃 玛 他们说他口吃 He stutters, Ma. They say he stutters.
我不管他是不是口吃 I don't care if he do.
我答应过这孩子由他说介绍词 我就会让他开场 I promised the boy he could do the part, so he gonna do it.
这事定了 他说话不总是磕磕巴巴 And that's all there is to it. He don't stutter all the time.
给他弄个麦克风 Get a microphone down here for him.
我们没有时间 不能… We don't have time. We can't...
你想录唱片就得备点时间 If you wanna make a record, find the time.
我不是唬你的 我可以立刻离开这里 I ain't playing with you. I could walk out of here right now.
回去我的巡回表演 我不需要这个唱片 Go back to my tour. I don't need to go through all this.
去给那孩子弄个麦克风 Go get the boy a microphone.
我知道肯定是你搞的鬼 你小心点 Levee, I know you had something to do with this. Watch yourself.
是卡特勒的主意 It was Cutler.
是你 就你一个… It was you. You the only one…
这小子口吃 他做不来 The boy stutter. He can't do the part.
做不做得来 都得让他做 Can or can't, he gonna do it.
-跟你没任何关系 -我不在乎你做什么 - You ain't got nothing to do with it. - I don't care.
-整首歌让他唱都没问题 -好 谢谢 - He can sing the whole song. - Well, all right. Thank you.
他只有一次机会 这个的费用… He's only getting one chance. The cost of this...
去你妈的费用 你开口闭口都是钱 Damn the cost. You always talking about the cost.
我替我们这群人赚的钱 比你们所有人加起来的还多 I make more money for this outfit than anybody else you got put together.
要是他说不好 就给他时间 直到他说好了为止 If he mess up, he'll do it till he get it right.
来吧 孩子 Come on, baby. Come on. Come.
站在这儿 双手握着 像我教你那样 Stand right there. Hold your hands like I told you to. Okay. Come on.
不要担心会说不好 All right. Don't worry about messing up.
我们就一直录到你说好了为止 You mess up, we'll do it till you get it right.
好了 卡特勒 演奏起来吧 All right. Play it for him, Cutler.
好的 All right.
一、二 得有那个范儿 One, two, you know what to do.
好了 诸位 All right, boys,
表演大家看过大家风范 you done seen the best.
今天让各位见识千千万 Now I'm gonna show you the rest.
玛雷尼将为大家献上她的… Ma Rainey's gonna show you her b… b… b…
《黑臀舞》 Black b… bottom.
非常好 孩子 慢慢来 你能说好的 That's real good, baby. You take your time. You'll get it right.
好了 玛 我们准备好开始了 Okay, Ma. We're ready to go.
-我的可乐呢？ -《玛雷尼的黑臀舞》 伙计们 - Where's my Coke - "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," boys.
我的可乐呢？我要喝可乐 这里太热了 我要可乐 Where's my Coke I need a Coke. Hot as it is. Shit. I need a Coke.
-怎么了？ -我的可乐呢？我要一瓶冰可乐 -What's the matter, Ma -Where's my Coke I need a cold Coca-Cola.
玛 是这样的… Uh, Ma, look…
我忘了买可乐了 I forgot the Coke.
没可乐就算了 就这一首歌 你们怎么看 伙计们？ Let's do it without it, huh Just this one song. What say, boys
他们的看法不重要 你该给我准备可口可乐 你知道的 Damn what the band say. You supposed to have my Coca-Cola. You knew that.
没有可口可乐 我什么都不做 I ain't doing nothing without my Coca-Cola.
-该死的 -等一下 玛 - Shit. - Just a minute here, Ma.
你迟到了一小时… You come in an hour late...
别让我看到你 艾尔文 我跟你说过要让他离我远远的 Get out my face. Irvin, I told you keep him away from me.
我受够她的无理取闹了 我忍无可忍了 I'm tired of her nonsense. I'm not gonna put up with this.
让我来 玛 这样吧 Let me. Ma, listen.
我会打电话给店家买瓶可乐 但我们先开始吧 I'll call down to the deli and get you a Coke. But let's get started.
西尔维斯特准备好了 乐队也就位了 Sylvester's standing there ready to go, the band's all set up.
我们就录这一首歌 Let's do this one song.
小气得不肯给我买一瓶可乐 我自己买 Too cheap to buy me a Coca-Cola. I'll buy my own.
拖步、西尔维斯特 去吧 亲爱的 Slow Drag, Sylvester. Go on, baby.
给我买三瓶可乐 冰冻的 也给你们大家买点东西 Get me three bottles of Coca-Cola, ice cold. Get y'all something too.
找的钱你留着 Keep the change.
艾尔文 离我远点 妈的 Irvin, get away from me. Shit.
等我拿到了我的可乐再说 等一等要不了你的命 You can wait till I get my Coca-Cola. Ain't gonna kill you.
好吧 玛 等你的可乐 Okay, Ma. Get your Coke.
先生们 去乐队房 Gentlemen, the band room.
老天爷 给你买可乐 Christ sakes, get your Coke.
卡特勒 Cutler.
过来 我要跟你谈 Come here a minute. I need to talk to you.
（波拉内奇基杂货熟食店）
“乐队的伙计们说”？ 这是什么狗屁？ What's all this shit about "the boys in the band said"
你们得听我的 I tells you what to do.
乐队的事由我决定 谁能做什么、不能做什么由我来定 I says what the matter is with the band. I say who can and can't do what.
那孩子口吃我们才那么说的 We just say 'cause the boy stutter.
我知道他口吃 你以为我不知道吗？ I know he stutters. Don't you think I know
-这能帮到他 -我们觉得要是… -This is what gonna help him. -We thought it'd be easier...
那一段由他来讲 我不想再听到 He gonna do the part. I don't wanna hear any more of this shit
你说乐队的伙计们有想什么法 about what the boys in the band says.
我要你回到孟菲斯就把勒维换了 And I want you to find somebody to replace Levee when we get to Memphis.
-他只会惹麻烦 -勒维没问题 -Levee ain't nothing but trouble. -Levee all right.
他用心的话 小号吹得挺好的 He plays good music when he puts his mind to it.
-他还会创作 -我不在乎 - He know how to write music too. - I don't care.
有他就没有好事 He ain't nothing but bad news.
找别人 他是个搞事的主儿 Find somebody else. He the ringtail leader.
我知道打小报告是他出的主意 I know it was his idea who to say who can do what.
杜茜梅！给我坐下 不要搔首弄姿 Dussie Mae! Sit your ass down and stop flaunting yourself around.
-我什么都没做 -走开 别在这里碍事 -I ain't doing nothing. -Just go somewhere and stay out of the way.
嗨 我就想看看这里是怎样的 Hi. I just wanted to see what it look like down here.
那进来吧 Well, come on in.
我不咬人 I don't bite.
没想到你还会创作 I didn't know you could write music.
我还以为你昨晚在夜总会是骗我的 I just thought you was jiving me at the club last night.
不是 美女 我真的会写歌 No, baby. I knows how to write music.
我把我写的一些歌 给了斯特迪文特先生 I done give some of my songs to Mr. Sturdyvant.
他说会让我录那些歌 He say he gonna let me record 'em.
我会有属于自己的乐队 I'm gonna have my own band.
喂 托雷多 我是不是 给了斯特迪文特先生我的一些歌？ Hey, Toledo. Ain't I give Mr. Sturdyvant some of my songs I wrote
不要把我扯进来 Don't get Toledo mixed up in nothing.
你会有你自己的乐队 你确定？ You gonna have your own band, sure enough
勒维格林和他的踢踏乐队 Levee Green and his Footstompers.
一个会有自己乐队的男人 需要一个像你这样的女人 A man what's gonna get his own band need to have a woman like you.
一个像我这样的女人 需要一个能挣钱给我花的男人 A woman like me need a man to bring it and put it in my hand.
我不需要不知付出 只讲索取 I don't need nobody getting something for nothing
把我晾在自家门前的人 and leave me standing in my door.
那不是我的风格 小甜甜 我很懂得服侍女人 That ain't Levee's style, sugar. I knows how to treat a woman.
给她买礼物、各种东西 用她喜欢的方式来对她 Buy her presents and things. Treat her like she want to be treated.
没买礼物之前他们都是这么说的 That's what they all say till it come time to be buying the presents.
我们到了孟菲斯 我会带你出去 When we get down to Memphis, I'm gonna take you out,
带你好好玩 show you a good time.
让你看看勒维真懂得体贴女人 Show you Levee know how to treat a woman.
玛 Ma.
这首《月光蓝调》 我相信是贝西史密斯唱的歌 This "Moonshine Blues," that's one of them songs that Bessie Smith sangs, I believe.
贝西什么？我可没想着贝西 Bessie what I ain't thinking about Bessie.
妈的 贝西是我教出来的 贝西在模仿我 Shit. I taught Bessie. Bessie ain't doing nothing but imitating me.
就算她卖出一百万张唱片我也不在乎 What I care about Bessie I don't care if she sell a million record.
她有她的乐迷 我有我的 我不在乎其他人干什么 She got her people. I got mine. I don't care what nobody else do.
玛才是开创者 你可别忘了 Ma was the first. Don't you forget it.
谁说那些乱七八糟的了？ Nobody said nothing about all that.
-我是说 她唱过这首歌 -我干这一行很久了 - I'm saying that's the song she sang. - I've been doing this a long time.
从我小时候就开始了 我不在乎别人做什么 Ever since I was a little girl. I don't care what nobody else do.
可恶 所以我才这么生艾尔文的气 Shoot. That's what get me so mad with Irvin.
白人总是想给你找麻烦 White folks try to be put out with you all the time.
吝啬得连一瓶可口可乐都不给你买 Too cheap to buy you a damn Coca-Cola.
不过 我不给他们留情面的 玛不会忍气吞声 可恶 I lets them know it, though. Ma don't stand for no shit.
他们想把你的声音录下来 存在那些高级机器里面 Shoot.They wanna take your voice and trap it in all them fancy boxes
有那些按钮、表盘的 却那么吝啬 一瓶可乐都不给你买 with all them buttons and dials, and then too cheap to buy you a Coca-Cola.
一瓶不就5分钱嘛 Don't cost but a nickel a bottle.
他们根本不在乎我 They don't care nothing about me.
他们只想要我的声音 All they want is my voice.
这一点我是学精了 Well, I done learned that.
我让他们怎样伺候我 他们就怎样伺候我 And they gonna treat me the way I want to be treated
不管他们内心有多不情愿 no matter how much it hurt 'em.
他们现在正在后面说我的各种坏话 They back there right now calling me all kinds of names.
骂我 但绝不会说我是上帝之女 Calling me everything but a child of God.
但他们无可奈何 因为他们还没有得到他们想要的 But they can't do nothing else 'cause they ain't got what they wanted yet.
他们把我的声音录下来了 存进那些机器里了 As soon as they get my voice down on one them recording machines,
那他们就会翻身 拉上裤子 我就像是被上过的妓女 then it's just like I'd be some whore and they roll over and put their pants on.
到时我对他们就没有价值了 They ain't got no use for me then.
我知道自己在说什么 你看着 I know what I'm talking about. You watch.
艾尔文呢 他正跟那些人在一起 And Irvin, he right there with the rest of them.
他也根本不在乎我 He don't care nothing about me either.
他当我的经纪人六年了 唯一一次把我请去他家 He's been my manager for six years, and the only time he had me over his house
-就是让我去给他的白人朋友唱歌 -我知道他们那种人 -was to sing for some of his white friends. -Huh. I know how they do.
妈的 对能给他们赚钱的黑人 Yeah. Shit, you colored and you can make 'em some money,
他们还会客客气气的 否则你不过是巷子里的一条狗 then you all right with them, otherwise you just a dog in the alley.
我的唱片赚的钱 I done made them more money from my records
比他们其他录唱片艺人的加起来还多 than all them other recording artists they got put together,
他们还敢发牢骚 说这次录音要花他们很多钱 and then they wanna balk about how much this session is costing them.
我不明白 这怎么能花掉他们说的那么多钱 I can't see how it's costing as much as they say.
妈的 根本不是 我完全不在意那些话 Shit, it ain't. I don't pay that kind of talk no mind.
我都选好我的乐队成员了 I already got my fellas picked out.
我给自己选一些好手 真的懂玩好音乐的人 I'm getting me some good fellas. Know how to play real sweet music.
你把你的乐队组起来了 再来验证你现在的话 You get your own band, we'll see about this stuff you talking.
我就是想告诉你 我知道女人的喜好 I just wanna show you I knows what the womens like.
我“甜柠檬汽水”不是浪得虚名的 They don't call me Sweet Lemonade for nothing.
-住手 会有人进来的 -他们不会进来的 -Stop it now. Somebody gonna come in here. -No, they ain't.
你听着 小甜甜 Look here, sugar.
我想知道 What I wants to know is,
我的红公鸡能不能 介绍给你的棕母鸡认识 can I introduce my red rooster to your brown hen.
你把乐队组起来了 我们再看你的红公鸡会不会啼 You get your own band and we'll see if your red rooster know how to crow.
厉害了 宝贝 Mmm. Damn, baby.
现在我知道 我奶奶出去晒衣服的时候 Now I know why my grandpappy sat on the front porch
我爷爷为什么 会拿把直剃刀坐在屋前走廊了 with a straight razor when my grandma hung out the wash.
你疯了！ You crazy!
我猜你叫起来 会像去阿拉巴马州的午夜列车 I bet you sound like the midnight train to Alabama
穿越梅森-迪克森线一样 when it crosses the Mason-Dixon Line.
你怎么会这么疯狂？ How you get so crazy
是像你这样的女人把我逼得这么… It's women like you that drive me so…
老天爷 Good God.
丰臀姑娘万岁 Happy birthday to the lady with the cakes.
这里真安静 Sure done got quiet in here.
我受不了静悄悄的 I never could stand no silence.
我的脑子里总是需要有点音乐 I always got to have some music going on in my head somewhere.
音乐能调节 保持平衡 音乐有这种力量 能填满 It keeps things balanced.Music will do that. It fills things up.
在这世界有更多的音乐 这世界就更丰满 The more music you have in the world, the fuller it is.
我同意这个说法 我的脑子里也需要有音乐 I can agree with that. I got to have my music too.
白人不懂蓝调 White folk don't understand about the blues.
他们听到蓝调被唱出来 但他们不懂蓝调是怎么来的 They hear it come out, but they don't know how it got there.
他们不明白蓝调是生活表达的方式 They don't understand that that's life's way of talking.
唱歌并不是为了发泄 You don't sing to feel better.
唱歌是一种理解生活的方式 所以才唱歌 You sing 'cause that's a way of understanding life.
蓝调让人在早上愿意起床 The blues help you get out of bed in the morning.
愿意起床 因为知道自己并不孤独 You get up knowing you ain't alone.
这世界上还有别的事物 There's something else in the world.
那首歌增加的一些东西 Something's been added by that song.
没有蓝调 这个世界会空荡荡的 This be an empty world without the blues.
是啊 Yeah.
我尝试用什么东西把那个空洞填满 I try to take that emptiness and fill it up with something.
蓝调唱法不是由我开创的 蓝调自古就有 I ain't started blues way of singing. Blues always been there.
但他们要叫我“蓝调之母” But if they wanna call me the Mother of Blues,
我不介意 这不会伤害任何人 that's all right with me. It don't hurt none.
你们去了真久 西尔维斯特 去找艾尔文 Sure did take y'all a long time. Sylvester, get Irvin.
-告诉他我们准备好了 -我去叫勒维 -Tell him we ready to go. -I'll grab Levee.
勒维 玛的可乐到了 我们准备好开始了 Ma got her Coke, Levee. We about ready to start.
-把这个拿开 -好的 - Get this off me. - Okay.
好了 得走了 Okay, gotta go.
快走啊！ Just go!
好了 伙计们 《玛雷尼的黑臀舞》 录第一遍 Okay, boys. "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom," take one.
二 得有那个范儿 Two, you know what to do.
好了 诸位 表演大家… All right, boys, you… you… d… done…
录第二遍 Take two.
好了 诸位 All right, boys,
表演大家看过千千万 今天让各位见识大家风范 you done seen the rest. Now I'm gonna show you the best.
玛雷尼将为大家献上她的… Ma Rainey's gonna show you her… B… B… B…
录… Take…
玛 我们能不能删掉… Ma, can we just do it without the…
录第六遍 Take six.
录第七遍 Take seven.
好了 诸位 All right, boys,
表演大家看过千千万 今天让各位见识大家风范 you done seen the rest. Now I'm gonna show you the best.
玛雷尼将为大家 献上她的《黑臀舞》 Ma Rainey's gonna show you her black bottom.
好了 玛 很好 非常好听 伙计们 好样的 Okay, that's good, Ma. That sounded great. Good job, boys.
你看吧？我就说了你可以！ 你只需要投入去做就能行 See I told you you could do it!All you gotta do is set your mind to it.
他做得比我想象中要好 He did better than I thought he would.
-真是我的好侄子 -嘿 小子 伙计们 玛 - Mwah. That's my baby. - Hey, boy. Hey, boys, Ma.
-好！ -嘿 接下来录《月光蓝调》？ - Yeah! - Hey, let's do "Moonshine Blues" next
《月光蓝调》 伙计们 "Moonshine Blues," boys.
艾尔？录音出了点问题 检查一下那个麦克风 Irv Something happened with the recording. Check that mic.
一、二 试音… One, one, one, two, check, one...
不是 是那孩子的麦克风 No. The problem's with the kid's mic.
老天爷！ Oh, Christ Almighty!
-玛 我们没有录下这首歌 -该死的！ - Ma, we didn't record the song. - Shit!
你什么意思？ 你们俩刚才在上面干了些什么？ What you mean you didn't record the song What were you and Sturdyvant doing up there
肯定是勒维一踢 把插头拔了 Levee must have kicked the plug out.
我没有踢东西 I ain't kicked nothing.
但愿勒维专注自己的工作 If Levee had his mind on what he was doing.
你搞的破事一件接一件 你最好把自己整明白了 If it ain't one thing, it's another. Straighten your black ass out.
-我什么都没做 -是电线 梅尔 -Hell, it ain't my fault. I ain't done nothing. -It's the cord, Mel.
电线磨损断了 需要新的 The cord's all chewed up. We need another cord.
-组织最混乱… -玛？ - The most disorganized… - Ma
-浪费我的时间 -她去哪里？ - Waste of my time. - Where's she going
-不好了 -玛？玛！ - Shit. - Ma Ma!
玛？ Ma
你敢出去你就完蛋了 再也不用你录了 If you walk out of this studio, you're through. You're washed-up.
去你的 梅尔！玛！ Christ sakes, Mel! Ma!
玛 回来吧！求你了！ Ma, come back here! Ma, please!
玛 听我说 Listen, Ma.
这些唱片肯定会大受欢迎 These records are gonna be hits.
它们肯定能大卖 They are gonna sell like crazy.
连西尔维斯特都会成明星 Hell, even Sylvester will be a star.
15分钟 Fifteen minutes.
只求你给这么多时间 玛 就15分钟 That is all I am asking, Ma. Just 15 minutes.
15分钟 听到了吗？ Fifteen minutes. You hear me, Irvin Fifteen minutes.
然后我就把我的《黑臀舞》 带回乔治亚州 你听到了吗？ Then I'm gonna carry my black bottom on back down to Georgia, you hear me
15分钟 Fifteen minutes.
你们休息一下 我们15分钟后准备好 You boys go ahead and take a break.Fifteen minutes. We'll be ready to go.
她走不走无所谓 我准备好离开了 Don't make no difference to me if she leave.I'm ready to get on outta here, anyway.
换了我是艾尔文 If I was Mr. Irvin,
我会继续把电线之类的弄好了 I'd go on and get them cords and things hooked up right.
要是勒维没有动别的心思 我们就完事了 If Levee kept his mind on his work, we wouldn't be in this fix.
现在我们得看看那小孩 能不能把那段话说对了 We'd be up there finishing up.Now we gotta see if that boy can get that part right.
勒维一边吹小号 一边盯着那姑娘看 He got one eye on the gal and the other on his trumpet.
臭小子 那是玛的姑娘 Nigga, don't you know that's Ma's gal
只是跟她聊天 我跟谁都那样聊 I ain't done nothing to her. I just talk to her like I talk to anybody else.
你继续招惹她 你的饭碗就不保 Your ass gonna be out there scraping the concrete, lookin' for a job,
我什么都没做 不过是问了她的名字 I ain't done nothing to the gal. I just asked her her name.
连她的名字都不能问 就让玛下地狱吧 If you sayin' I can't do that, Ma'll just have to go to hell.
我放弃了 不跟傻子说道理了 I'm through with it. Try talking to a fool.
有些人的毛病比别人多 有些人当傻子 可激动了 Some mens got it worse than others. Some mens is excited to be a fool.
我很了解 那种刺激让人上瘾 I knows about it. The excitement is something else.
我经历过 让人心甘情愿当傻子 I done experienced it. Make you feel good to be a fool.
但那持续不了多久 But it don't last long.
一分钟就结束了 然后要面对后果 Over in a minute, then you got to tend with the consequences.
你这番关于傻子的话 终于有点道理了 That's the best sense you made all day, talking about being a fool.
你终于说了点有道理的话 承认自己曾经是傻子 That's the only sensible thing you said today, admitting you was a fool.
我完全承认 那没什么不对的 Oh, I admits it, all right. Ain't nothing wrong with it.
我什么事都干过一点 I done been a little bit of everything.
在我翘辫子之前 得多干一点事 Gonna be a bit more things before I'm finished with it.
但我绝不会在同一件事上傻两次 这是我跟你的区别 But I ain't never been the same fool twice.That's where we part ways.
但你曾经傻过 这才是重要的 But you been a fool. That's what counts.
我问她的名字被你说是傻子 可你也是个傻子 Talking about I'm a fool for asking the girl her name,and here you is one yourself.
我娶了个女人 一个好女人 I married a woman. A good woman.
到今天为止 我都说不出她一句坏话 To this day, I can't say nothing bad about this woman.
我娶她 一心只想跟她生活 I married her with all the good intentions and graces of being hooked up,
下半辈子都跟她过 bound to her for the rest of my life.
希望她能陪我终老 但她出去加入了教会 Looking for this woman to put me in my grave,but she went out and joined the church.
她在那里 看到虔诚的男基督徒 She got up there and got to seeing them good Christian men
她不明白我为什么不像他们一样 and wondering why I ain't like that.
她很快就明白 她嫁给了一个没有宗教信仰的人 Soon she figured she hooked up to a heathen.
她不能那样生活 Couldn't live like that.
所以她就离开了 So she left.
我坐下来 明白到自己是个傻子 I just sat down and I figured I was a fool
我没有看到她需要一些 我无法给她的东西 not to see that she needed something that I wasn't giving her,
否则她也不会去教会 else she wouldn't have been up there at the church.
所以 是啊… So, yeah…
托雷多曾经因为一个女人而犯傻 Toledo been a fool about a woman.
那是生活的一部分 That's part of making life.
托雷多 你说的傻子 和我说的傻子不是一回事 Toledo, what you call a fool and what I call a fool are two different things.
傻子遇到的事该怪他自己 A fool is responsible for what happen to him.
那是他自找的 就像勒维 A fool cause it to happen. Like Levee.
他再跟玛的姑娘乱搞 就会被赶到街上 这就叫傻子 He keep messing around with Ma's gal, his feet be out there scraping the ground.
啥事都不会发生 我不会让任何事发生的 Nothing gonna happen to Levee.Levee ain't gonna let nothing happen to him.
最好别让玛看到你跟她搭讪 这老兄是在提醒你这个 Better not let Ma see you ask her. That's what the man's trying to tell you.
用不着别人提醒我 I don't need nobody to tell me nothing.
我想说的是 从你说的故事来看 Toledo, all I'm saying is, from the looks of it,
我认为生活对你不公平 from your story, I don't think life treated you fair.
生活是公平的 Oh, life's fair.
生活就是一坨狗屎 Life ain't shit.
用纸袋子把它装起来带走 生活没有意思 You can put it in a paper bag and carry it around with you.
可死亡呢？死亡就有点味道了 Now death Death got some style.
死亡会折磨你 让你恨不得自己没有被生下来 Death will kick your ass and make you wish you never been born.
死亡就是这么可怕 That's how bad death is.
但生活嘛 可以由你来掌控 生活不算什么 But you can rule over life. Life ain't nothing.
这老头儿说什么生活是公平的 可他自己却穷得叮当响 Nigga talking about life is fair and ain't got a pot to piss in.
那我就得跟你说道说道了 All right. Now I'm gonna tell you something.
无论如何 黑人都不会感到满足 A nigga gonna be dissatisfied no matter what.
黑人是有权利不满的 Niggas got a right to be dissatisfied.
你看到别人吃一整头猪 只给你扔一根骨头 Is you gonna be satisfied with a bone somebody done throwed you
你会满足吗？ when you done seen them eating a whole hog
他们让你表演 算你幸运了 你很幸运却不自知 You lucky they let you be an entertainer. You're lucky and don't even know it.
我说的是 别人扔给你一根骨头 你就满足了 I'm talking about being satisfied with a bone somebody done throwed you.
问题就在这里 你们满足于坐在一个地方 That's what's the matter with y'all, you're satisfied sitting in one place.
我组织起自己的乐队 为斯特迪文特先生录歌的时候 Soon as I get my band together and record them songs Mr. Sturdyvant done told me I can make,
我会像玛一样 指挥白人做事 I'm gonna be like Ma and tell the white man just what he can do.
玛跟艾尔文先生说她要走 他立马跪下来求她别走 Ma tell Mr. Irvin she leaving Mr. Irvin get down on his knees and beg her to stay.
我会让白人同样地尊重我 That's the way I'm gonna be. Make the white man respect me.
白人不在乎玛 是黑人把玛捧成明星的 The white man don't care nothing about Ma.The colored folks made Ma a star.
白人不在乎她是谁 不在乎她创作什么音乐 The white folks don't care nothing about who she is or what kind of music she make.
让她去一间白人酒店 你就会明白她有多受他们欢迎 Let her go to one of them white folks hotel and see how big she is.
狗屁 她在北部这里 甚至拦不到一辆出租车 Hell, she can't even get a cab up here in the North.
我告诉你们吧 盖茨牧师 你知道我说的是谁 I'mma tell you something. Reverend Gates.Slow Drag, you know who I'm talking about.
盖茨牧师当时 正从塔拉哈西去亚特兰大 Reverend Gates was, uh, coming up from Tallahassee to Atlanta
去看他患肺结核的妹妹 to see his sister who was sick at that time with the consumption.
火车穿过托马斯维尔 经过莫尔特里 The train come up through Thomasville, then past Moultrie,
-来到一个叫西格斯比的小镇 -你可以现在打住了 and then ended up in this little town called Sigsbee.You can stop telling that right there.
只有一趟火车从塔拉哈西开出 往北去亚特兰大 Ain't but one train come out of Tallahassee headed north to Atlanta.
那趟车不在西格斯比停 It don't stop at Sigsbee.
唯一会在西格斯比停的火车 是去圣达菲的 The only train that stop at Sigsbee is the Santa Fe,
得在莫尔特里换乘才能坐那趟火车 and you gotta transfer at Moultrie to get it.
也许他就是那么干的 我不清楚 Maybe that's what he done. I don't know.
我只是告诉你们 他在西格斯比下了火车 I'm just telling you he got off at Sigsbee.
随便你怎么讲 你尽管编吧 You telling it. Tell it your way. Just make up anything.
-别烦他了 让他讲完 -说吧 随便你讲 -Leave him alone and let him finish. -Go on, tell it your way.
盖茨牧师在西格斯比下了火车 Reverend Gates got off this train in Sigsbee.
他想着去看看时刻表 Figured he'd check the schedule
确保他准时到达 会有人接他 to make sure he arrived in time for somebody to pick him up. All right
他在那里的时候 想去上厕所 While he's there, it come upon him that he had to go to the bathroom.
那里唯一一个给黑人用的厕所 Now, the only colored restroom they had
是一个户外厕所 离火车站大概200米远 was an outhouse they had sitting way back, 200 yards or so from the train station.
他在户外厕所里的时候 火车开走了 扔下了他 While he's in the outhouse, the train go off and leave without him.
他不知道自己在这个镇子的什么地方 Now, he don't know where he is in this town.
从来就没听说过这个镇子 In fact, he ain't never heard of it before.
这故事我听过 他坐那趟离开塔拉哈西的火车 I heard of it, and he ain't got off no train
并没有在西格斯比下车 coming outta Tallahassee in Sigsbee.
他站在那里想办法 The man's standing there trying to figure out what he gonna do,
那趟火车把他留在了这个陌生的小镇 where this train done left him in this strange town.
天开始黑了 It started getting dark.
他看到太阳慢慢下沉 He sees where the sun's getting low in the sky,
他努力地想办法 and he's trying to figure out what he gonna do,
这时候 他看到街对面有几个白人 when he noticed a couple of white fellas standing across the street from the station.
就站在那里 看着他 Just standing there, watching him.
然后又来了两三个家伙 Then two or three more fellas come up and join the other one.
他看了火车站周围 看不到一个黑人 Now he look around the station. He don't see no colored folks nowhere.
他不知道那些家伙脑子里在想什么 He don't know what's getting into these fellas' minds,
所以他开始走了起来 so he commence to walking.
他不知道自己要走去哪里 他沿着火车轨道走 He don't know where he walking. He walking down the railroad tracks
突然间听到：“喂 黑鬼” when he hear, "Hey, nigger."
就那样喊 Just like that.
“喂 黑鬼” "Hey, nigger."
他继续走 He keep walking.
他们继续喊他 他继续走 They call him some more. He kept walking.
然后他听到一声枪响 是的 那时候他停了下来 Then he heard a gunshot. Yeah. He stopped then, you know.
那些人把他围了起来 They crowded around him.
他站在那里 He's standing there,
脖子上挂着十字架 cross around his neck,
还有他一直随身携带的小本《圣经》 and the little Bible that he keep with him all the time.
他们问他是谁 他说自己是盖茨牧师 They ask who he was. He said he was Reverend Gates
说他在赶路 and he was on his way to see his sister
去看生病的妹妹 可火车开走了 留下了他 who was sick, and the train went off and left him.
他们说：“是吗 黑鬼？ And they said, "Yeah, nigger"
但你会跳舞吗？” "But can you dance"
他看着他们 He looked at them
开始跳舞 and commenced to dancing.
其中一个人把他的十字架 从他脖子上扯了下来 One of them reached up and tore his cross off his neck,
说他戴着十字架和《圣经》跳舞 是对上帝不敬 said he was committing heresy by dancing with a cross and a Bible.
抢走了他的《圣经》 把它撕了 Took his Bible and tore it up,
逼他跳舞 一直跳到他们看腻了为止 and had him dancing till they got tired of watching him.
-只有用这种方式 他… -我想知道的是 他是信上帝的 - That's the only way that man... - What I wants to know is, he a man of God.
他遇到这些事的时候 上帝到底在哪里？ Where the hell was God when all this was going on
为什么上帝没有像你说的那样 用雷劈那些人渣？ Why didn't God strike down them crackers with some of this lightning you talking about to me
勒维 你会在地狱里受火刑的 Levee, you gonna burn in hell.
为什么上帝没有惩罚那些人渣？ Why didn't God strike some of them crackers down Tell me that.
这是个问题 别吓唬我什么会在地狱被火烧 That's the question. Don't come telling me this burning-in-hell shit.
他信仰上帝 He a man of God,
为什么上帝没有惩罚那些人渣？ why didn't God strike some of them crackers down
我来告诉你原因吧 我告诉你真相 I'll tell you why. I'll tell you the truth.
上帝从不听黑人的祷告 God ain't never listened to no nigga's prayers.
上帝把黑人的祷告扔进了垃圾桶 God take the nigga's prayers and throw them in the garbage.
上帝不在乎黑人 事实上 上帝憎恨黑人 God don't pay niggas no mind. In fact, God hate niggas.
以他满腔的怒火来憎恨他们 Hate them with all the fury in his heart.
耶稣并不爱你 他恨死你这黑人了 Jesus don't love you, nigga. Jesus hate your black ass.
跟我说什么在地狱被火烧的狗屁 Come talking that shit to me. Talking about burning in hell.
上帝算个什么鸟？ God can kiss my ass.
你要亵渎我的上帝！ 他是我的上帝！你这一无是处… You wanna blaspheme my God! That's my God! My God, you worthless...
放开他！ Let him go!
-你这滩烂泥！ -放开他！ - You worthless! - Let him go!
-他是我的上帝！不准亵渎我的上帝 -算了！他的话没什么意思！ - That's my God! Blaspheme my God. - Let it go! It don't mean nothing!
他的话没什么意思！ It don't mean nothing!
他是你的上帝？是这样吗？ It's your God, huh Is that right
我就给你的上帝一个机会 All right, I'm gonna give your God a chance.
我就给他一个机会救你这王八蛋 I'm gonna give him a chance to save your black ass.
-放下刀子！ -别插手 - Put that knife up! - Stay out of this, Toledo.
这解决不了任何事 That's no way to solve nothing.
我在跟卡特勒的上帝说话！ 你听到了吗？ I'm talking to Cutler's God! You hear me
卡特勒的上帝！ 我在呼叫卡特勒的上帝！ Cutler's God! I'm calling Cutler's God!
来救这个家伙呀 Come on and save this nigga.
在我割他的喉咙之前劈我呀 Strike me down before I cut his throat.
-你在地狱里会被烧死 贱种 -我在叫你的上帝 - You gonna burn in hell, nigga. - I'm calling your God.
我要给他一个机会救你 我在叫你的上帝！ I'm gonna give him a chance to save you. I'm calling your God!
卡特勒的上帝？ Cutler's God
来救这个王八蛋 Come on and save this nigga.
来救他 就像你对我妈那样做啊 Come on and save him like you did my mama.
救他 就像你对我妈那样！ Save him like you did my mama!
我听到她呼喊你了 I heard her when she call you.
我听到她说 “上帝慈悲 耶稣 救我 I heard her when she said, "Lord have mercy. Jesus help me."
求你了 上帝 请怜悯我 主啊 耶稣 救我” "Please, God, have mercy on me, Lord. Jesus help me."
你是不是转身离去了？ Did you turn your back
你是不是抛弃了她 王八蛋？ Did you turn your back, motherfucker
你是不是抛弃了她？ Did you turn your back
来呀 Come on.
来呀 抛弃我呀 Come on and turn your back on me.
抛弃我呀！ Turn your back on me!
来呀 你在哪里？ Come on. Where is you
来呀 抛弃我呀！ Come on and turn your back on me!
王八蛋 你转身抛弃我 我就把你的心脏给挖出来！ Turn your back on me, motherfucker! I'll cut your heart out!
来呀 怎么？你在哪里？ Come on. What's the matter Where is you
来转身抛弃我呀 Come on and turn your back on me.
出来呀 你怕什么？ Come on, what you scared of
转身抛弃我呀！快呀！ Turn your back on me! Come on!
胆小鬼！王八蛋！ Coward motherfucker!
卡特勒 你的上帝是狗屁 Your God ain't shit, Cutler.
你的上帝是狗屁 Your God ain't shit.
美妙 我们录下来了 伙计们 Wonderful. We got that, boys.
这一场录得好 很成功！ Good session, Ma. We've got ourselves some winners!
你的低音提琴哪里学的？ 我听到它在吟唱 我听到你的琴声了 Slow Drag, where you learn to play that bass at I heard it singing. I heard you.
-那琴声在跳跃 -我是在跟随托雷多 You had that bass jumping all over the place.
这家伙手指很长 在钢琴上弹跳 I was following Toledo.Nigga got them long fingers striding all over the piano.
-我是在努力跟上他 -你就得那么做 - I was trying to keep up with him. - That's what you supposed to do.
卡特勒 你听到了吗？ 拖步在猛拍低音提琴 像在揍小孩 Cutler, you hear Slow Drag on that bass spanking like you spank a baby
勒维 你为什么吹那多么音符？ Levee, what were you doing Why you playing all them notes
别人吹一个 你吹十个 那没必要 Playing ten notes for every one you supposed to play. Don't call for all that.
应该根据主题即兴创作 这就是我刚才做的 You're supposed to improvise on the theme. That's what I was doing.
应该配合我唱的歌来演奏 You're supposed to play the song like I sing it.
像其他人一样 The way everybody else play it.
我是在吹我所感觉到的歌 I was playing the song the way I felt it.
我在唱我的歌 你就在扰乱我的耳朵 I'm trying to sing my song and you messing up my ear.
-你说那叫玩音乐？ -我知道自己在做什么 - You call that playing music - Hey, I know what I'm doing.
你们不要对我的音乐指手画脚 Y'all back up and leave me alone about my music.
我跟你说了 玛的音乐才重要 你的不重要 I done told you it ain't about your music. It's about Ma's music.
-没错 我跟你说了该怎么做 -我不在乎你和卡特勒做什么 -That's all right. I told you what to do. -What I care about what you and Cutler do
-炒了我 我会去组我自己的乐队 -你再惹我… -Y'all gonna fire me. I don't care. I'll go get my own band anyway. -- You keep messing with me...
-没有人在乎你 -行 臭小子 你被炒了 - Nobody studying you. -All right, nigga. You fired.
你以为我在意被炒？我不在乎 You think I care about being fired I don't care.
-你这是在帮我的忙 -卡特勒 勒维退出 - You doing me a favor. - Cutler, Levee's out.
-他不是我的乐队的人了 -我被炒了？好！ - He ain't playing in my band no more. - I'm fired Good!
这是我遇到的最好的事 Best thing that ever happened to me.
我不需要这份垃圾工作 I don't need this shit.
好吧 Okay.
-梅尔很快就付你们钱 -要现金 我不要支票 -Mel will be out with your money in a minute. -That's cash money. I don't want no check.
我看看吧 我不能答应你任何事 I'll see what I can do. I can't promise you nothing.
只要不是支票就行 As long as it ain't no check. I ain't got no use for a check.
玛 听我说 我跟斯特迪文特谈过了 他说… Listen, Ma. I talked to Sturdyvant, and he said…
我试图说服他别这么做 Now I tried to talk him out of it,
但他说他最多只能 从你的钱里抽25美金 but he said the best he can do is take $25 of your money
给西尔维斯特 and give it to Sylvester.
抽什么？干什么？ Take what and do what
如果我想给那孩子25美金 我自己会给他 If I wanted the boy to have $25 of my money, I'd give it to him.
他应该有自己的报酬 像其他所有人一样 He's supposed to have his own money.get paid like everybody else.
你上去告诉斯特迪文特 让他付这孩子他的报酬 You go on up there, and you tell Sturdyvant that he better pay the boy his own money.
-我跟他谈过了… -再跟他谈 - Yeah, I talked to him... - Talk to him again.
告诉他 如果他不付这孩子酬劳 就休想再跟我录唱片 Tell him if he don't pay the boy his own money,he'll never make another record of mine again.
你应该是我的经纪人才是 总是说要共同进退 You supposed to be my manager. Always talking about sticking together.
开始共同进退呀 Start sticking.
-去给这孩子要他的酬劳！ -好的 - Get the boy his money! - Okay.
我尽力 I'll see what I can do.
嘿 玛 Hey, Ma.
出什么事了吗？有问题吗？ Is there something wrong Is there a problem
-我要你给这孩子付酬劳 -没问题 玛 我都准备好了 -I want you to pay the boy his money. -Sure, Ma. I got it right here.
200给你 25给这孩子 对吧？ It's, uh, 200 for you and 25 for the kid, right
艾尔文把我的话理解错了 这都是误会 Irvin misunderstood me.It was all a mistake. It was all a mistake.
-误会？ -是的 玛 我搞错了 - A mistake, huh - Sure, Ma. Made a mistake.
但他终归拿到钱了 对吧？ But he's paid, right
唯一的错误… The only mistake…
就是你发现我没有签发行合约 Was when you found out I hadn't signed the release forms.
那是大错特错 That was a mistake.
别这样 把合约签了 Come on. Sign the forms, huh
-杜茜梅、西尔维斯特 走 -玛 把合约签了 - Dussie Mae, Sylvester, come on. - Ma, sign the forms.
艾尔文 我的车呢？ Irvin, where's my car
就在外面 车钥匙在我这里 来 把这些合约签了 It's right out front. I got the keys right here.Come on and sign these forms, huh
艾尔文 我的车钥匙给我 Irvin, give me my keys.
好的 玛 你就…签了这些合约吧 Sure, Ma. Just… sign these forms.
把它们送去我那里 我有时间就签 Send them to my address. I'll get around to 'em.
别这样 玛 我把一切都打点得很好 不是吗？ Come on, Ma. I took care of everything, didn't I
我解决了所有的问题 I straightened everything out.
玛？ Ma
求你了 Please
你告诉斯特迪文特 And you tell Sturdyvant,
他敢再犯错 我可以去别的地方录唱片 any more mistakes and I can make my records some place else.
我可不会忍 I ain't gonna stand for it.
不能给我支票 Ain't gonna bring me no check down here.
他上次给我一张支票 后来怎么着？ Man give me a check last time. What happened
我们找遍芝加哥 才把它兑成了现金 We had to go all over Chicago to get it cashed.
那些人看到黑人手里有张支票 马上就会想那是偷来的 See a nigga with a check, first thing they think is he stole it.
-我兑现金很顺利 -我不去妓院 -I ain't had no trouble cashing mine. -I don't visit no whore houses.
你不了解我的事 所以你别找打 You don't know my business, so don't start nothing.
我受够你了 立马就能放倒你 I'm tired of you as it is. I ain't but two seconds off your ass, noway.
-不要挑事 -我不在乎 -Don't y'all start nothing now. -I care what you're tired of
我不是在跟你说话 我在跟这个人说话 I wasn't talking to you.I was talking to this man.
伙计们 你们的薪水来了 Boys, I've got your pay.
艾尔文先生说你们想要现金 我就给你们准备了现金 Mr. Irvin told me you boys prefer cash, and that's what I have for you.
你们刚才演奏得很好 25给你 That was a good session you boys put in.There's 25 for you.
你们真的很懂行 25给你 Yes, sir, you boys really know your business. Twenty-five for you.
我们很快就会把你们请回来 25 We're gonna get you back in here real soon. Twenty-five.
再录一场 你们就可以多挣钱 And have another session, so you can make some more money.
25给你 And 25 for you.
斯特迪文特先生？ Uh, Mr. Sturdyvant, sir
我给您的那些歌怎么样？ About them songs I give you
是 勒维 我考虑过了 我觉得大家不会买那些歌 Oh, yeah. Oh, Levee. Uh, I thought about it.I don't think that people will buy them.
那些不是我们想要的歌曲 They're not the type of songs we're looking for.
斯特迪文特先生 我都挑好我的乐队成员了 Mr. Sturdyvant, sir. I done already got my band picked out.
我选了一些特别好的 他们很懂怎样玩好音乐 I got some real good fellas. They know how to play real good music.
我知道如果大家听了我的音乐 他们肯定会买 I know if the peoples hear the music, they'll buy it.
公平地说 那些歌不适合 Uh, Levee, I'll be fair with you. They're not the right songs.
斯特迪文特先生 大家听厌了坛罐乐队的音乐 Mr. Sturdyvant, peoples is tired of hearing jug-band music.
大城市里的人想要有激情的东西 The people in the big city They want something with some fire to it.
哈莱姆、底特律、华盛顿 Harlem, Detroit, DC.
这样吧 每首歌我给你5美元 Okay, I'll tell you what. I'll give you $5 apiece for 'em.
我不要5美元 斯特迪文特先生 我想像您说的 把那些歌录成唱片 I don't want $5, Mr. Sturdyvant. I wants to record them songs like you say.
我说了 它们不是我们想要的歌 Like I say, they're not the kind of songs we're looking for.
斯特迪文特先生 是您让我写那些歌的 Mr. Sturdyvant, you asked me to write them songs.
我最初把歌交给您的时候 您怎么没说？ Why didn't you tell me that when I first give them to you
您跟我说会录那些歌的 You told me you was gonna let me record them.
发生了什么事 让您改变主意了？ What's the difference between then and now
-麻烦你了 我会付你钱 -发生了什么事？ - I'll pay you for your trouble. - What's the difference
-我想知道 -我让我的人演奏了你的歌 -That's what I wanna know. -I had my fellas play your songs.
我听过了 它们没有我现在想找的那种感觉 When I heard them, they didn't sound like the kind I'm looking for right now.
您得听我来演奏 You got to hear me play them.
您没听过我的演奏 我肯定能让它们有那种感觉 You ain't heard me play them. That's what's gonna make them sound right.
勒维 我不怀疑这一点 Levee, I don't doubt that.
只是我觉得你的歌 不会像玛的唱片那样热卖 It's just that, I don't think they'd sell like Ma's records.
但我把它们从你手上买下来 But I'll take 'em off your hands for you.
斯特迪文特先生 Mr. Sturdyvant, sir.
我不知道您找了什么人来演奏那些歌 I don't know what fellas you had playing them songs,
但如果能让我演奏 我肯定能让听的人忍不住想跳舞 but if I could play them, I'd set them down in the people's lap.
您跟我说了可以录那些歌的 Now, you told me I could record them songs.
我对这事无能力为 There's nothing I can do about that.
我说了 一首5美元 我付你这个价钱 Like I say, it's $5 apiece. That's what I'll pay ya.
我是给你一个人情 I'm doing you a favor.
如果你写了更多的歌 我会帮你 从你那里把它们买下来 If you write any more, I'll help you out and take 'em off your hands.
价格是5美元一首 跟现在一样 The price is $5 apiece. Just like now.
看着点 Hey, watch it, now.
-妈的 你踩着我的鞋了 -抱歉 勒维 -Shit. You stepped on my shoe. -Excuse me there, Levee.
看看这个 Look at that.
老兄 你踩着我的鞋子了 Nigga, you stepped on my shoe.
-你为什么踩我？ -我道过歉了 - What you do that for - Said I'm sorry.
你踩我的鞋子 把我的鞋弄坏了 You gonna step on my goddamn shoe. You done fucked up my shoe.
看看你把我的鞋子弄的 老兄 Look at what you done to my shoe, nigga.
我没有踩你的鞋子 你为什么要踩我的？ I ain't step on your shoe. What you wanna step on my shoe for
他说过抱歉了 Man said he was sorry.
他弄坏了我的鞋子 他怎么会觉得抱歉？ How the hell he gonna be sorry when he done ruined my shoe
抱什么歉？ Come talk about sorry.
老兄 你踩到我的鞋了 你知道吗？ Nigga, you stepped on my shoe, you know that
-看看你干的好事？ -我说了“抱歉” 现在这事结了 - See what you done done - I said, "Excuse me." Now it's over.
-你要我怎么做？ -这样弄坏我的鞋子 - What you want me to do, huh - Wanna go and fuck up my shoe like that.
我又没踩你的鞋子 你看看这个 I ain't step on your shoe. Huh Look at this.
-好了 行了 -不行 看看你干的好事 - Okay, come on, now. - Naw, naw. Look at what you done.
你看看 这是我的鞋子 Look at that. That's my shoe.
是你弄的！ You did it. You did it!
你弄坏了我的鞋子 You fucked up my shoe.
你那些破烂、笨重的鞋子 踩到了我的鞋子 You stepped on my shoe with them raggedy-ass clodhoppers.
谁在乎你跟你的鞋子呀 Ain't nobody studying about you and your shoe.
我说过抱歉了 I said, "Excuse me."
如果你不能接受 那就去你的 If you can't accept that, then the hell with it.
你要我怎么做？ What you want me to do
你踩了我的鞋子 You stepped on my shoe.
他踩了我的鞋子 他踩了 He… He stepped on my shoe. He did.
是真的 卡特勒 他踩了我的鞋子 Honest. Cutler, he stepped on my shoe.
他为什么要那么做？ 托雷多 你为什么踩我的鞋子？ What he do that for Toledo, what you do that for
卡特勒 帮我 Cutler, help.
他踩了我的鞋子 He stepped on my shoe.
卡特勒！ Cutler!
没事的 我会救你 It's okay, Toledo. I'll help you.
来吧 托雷多 Come on, Toledo.
不 Oh, no.
不要… Don't…
不要这样看着我 Don't look at me like that.
（改编自 奥古斯特威尔逊的同名剧本）
（献给查德维克博斯曼 颂扬他的德艺双修）
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