Lyrics and translation Pete Seeger - Eight-Hour Day

We're brave and gallant miner boys, who work in underground

Мы храбрые и отважные шахтеры, которые работают в подполье.

For courage and good nature, no finer can be found

Для храбрости и добродушия нет ничего прекраснее.

We work both late and early, and get but little pay

Мы работаем и поздно, и рано, и платим мало.

To support our wives and children, in free Americay

Чтобы поддержать наших жен и детей в свободной Америке.

If Satan took the blacklegs, I'm sure t'would bid no sin

Если бы сатана забрал черноногих, я уверен, они бы не грешили.

What peace and happiness t'would be, for us poor workin' men

Какой мир и счастье были бы для нас, бедных рабочих!

Eight hours we'd have for workin', eight hours we'd have for play

Восемь часов у нас было бы на работу, восемь часов-на игру.

Eight hours we'd have for sleeping, in free Americay

Восемь часов у нас было бы на сон в свободной Америке.

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Writer(s): Woody Guthrie

Album

American Industrial Ballads

date of release

01-01-1992

1 Peg and Awl
2 Pittsburgh Town
3 Raggedy
4 My Children are Seven in Number
5 The Ballad of Barney Graham
6 Winnsboro Cotton Mill Blues
7 The Death of Harry Simms
8 Beans, Bacon, and Gravy
9 Fare Ye Well, Old Ely Branch
10 Mill Mother's Lament
11 Seven Cent Cotton and Forty Cent Meat
12 Sixty Per Cent
13 Cotton Mill Colic
14 Casey Jones (The Union Scab)
15 He Lies in the American Land
16 Come All You Hardy Miners
17 Farmer is the Man, The (Who Feeds Us All)
18 Hayseed Like Me, A
19 Roll Down the Line
20 Hard Times in the Mill
21 Eight-Hour Day
22 Buffalo Skinners
23 The Blind Fiddler
24 Let Them Wear Their Watches Fine

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