罗刹海市

Luocha Kingdom

 

 

 

 

 

作词：刀郎

Lyrics: Daolang

 

英译：杨新磊

English Translator: Yangxinlei

 

 

 

 

 

 

罗刹国向东两万六千里

Luocha(Demon) Kingdom, eastward twenty-six thousand miles

 

过七冲越焦海三寸的黄泥地

Passing seven rapids, crossing rough sea, walking muddy land

 

只为那有一条一丘河

Then appearing a filthy river

 

河水流过苟苟营

Its water flows through a squalid camp

 

苟苟营当家的叉杆儿唤作马户

The governor of the camps called as "Don Key"

 

十里花场有浑名

She is famous in various vanity fairs

 

她两耳傍肩三孔鼻

Her two long ears dripping on shoulder, with three-hole wide noses

 

未曾开言先转腚

Shakes her ass firstly before speaking

 

每一日蹲窝里把蛋来卧

Everyday she sits in nest to hatch eggs

 

老粉嘴多半辈儿以为自己是只鸡

Old goat believes she is a hen most of life

 

那马户不知道他是一头驴

That "Don Key" don't know he is a donkey

 

那又鸟不知道他是一只鸡

That "H en" don't know she is a hen

勾栏从来扮高雅

Vulgar venue usually pretends to noble and graceful

 

自古公公好威名

Bigwig always like bubble fame from ancient time to today

 

打西边来了一个小伙儿他叫马骥

From west comes a young man, called as Maji

 

美丰姿 少倜傥 华夏的子弟

Handsome, couth, cultured, an offspring of Huaxia(China)

 

只为他人海泛舟搏风打浪

Just because he survived from wind and waves in deep sea

 

龙游险滩流落恶地

So that stranding and roving in the camp

 

他见这罗刹国里常颠倒

He saw things upside down in the Luocha Kingdom

 

马户爱听那又鸟的曲

Don Key likes to listen H en’ s song

 

三更的草鸡打鸣当司晨

Hen crows in middle night to report dawn

 

半扇门楣上裱真情

She feigns true love as a whore

 

它红描翅那个黑画皮

She paints red wings, black inked skin

 

绿绣鸡冠金镶蹄

Green embroidered crest, gold inlaid hooves

 

可是那从来煤蛋儿生来就黑

But that coal ball was born from dust

 

不管你咋样洗呀那也是个脏东西

No matter how you wash it is still a dirty thing

 

那马户不知道他是一头驴

That "Don Key" don't know he is a donkey

 

那又鸟不知道他是一只鸡

That "H en" don't know she is a hen

 

岂有画堂登猪狗

How can pig or dog become a governor 

 

哪来鞋拔作如意

Where can a shoehorn be seen as a lovely pet

 

它红描翅那个黑画皮

She paints red wings, black inked skin

 

绿绣鸡冠金镶蹄

Green embroidered crest, gold inlaid hooves

 

可是那从来煤蛋儿生来就黑

But that coal ball was born from dust

 

不管你咋样洗呀那也是个脏东西

No matter how you wash it is still a dirty thing

 

爱字有心心有好歹

Love holds heart, but heart has good or bad

 

百样爱也有千样的坏

Hundreds love, also thousands evil

 

女子为好非全都好

Women often are good, but not all

 

还有黄蜂尾上针

Beware the needle on wasp’s tail

 

西边的欧钢有老板

In western European, there is a steel boss

 

生儿维特根斯坦

His son is L.J.J. Wittgenstein

 

他言说马户驴又鸟鸡

He said “Don Key” is donkey and “H en” is hen

 

到底那马户是驴还是驴是又鸟鸡

Is that “Don Key” a donkey or a hen, and is that “H en” a hen or a donkey

 

那驴是鸡那个鸡是驴

Is that donkey a hen or is that hen a donkey

那鸡是驴那个驴是鸡

Is hen donkey or is donkey hen

 

那马户又鸟

That “Don Key” with that “H en”

 

是我们人类根本的问题

Is the essential problem of our humankind

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

                                                  

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