Lyrics and translation Woody Guthrie - The Jolly Banker

The Jolly Banker

Веселый банкир

My name is Tom Cranker and I′m a jolly banker,

Меня зовут Том Крэнкер, и я веселый банкир,

I'm a Jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

Я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

I safeguard the farmers and widows and orphans,

Я охраняю фермеров, вдов и сирот,

Singin′ I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

Напевая: я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

When dust storms are sailing, and crops they are failing,

Когда бушуют пыльные бури, и урожай гибнет,

I'm a Jolly banker, Jolly banker am I.

Я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

I check up your shortage and bring down your mortgage,

Я проверяю твою недостачу и снижаю твою ипотеку,

Singin′ I′m a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

Напевая: я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

When money you're needing, and mouths you are feeding,

Когда тебе нужны деньги, и ты кормишь рты,

I′m a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

Я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

I'll plaster your home with a furniture loan,

Я обклею твой дом кредитом на мебель,

Singin′ I'm a jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

Напевая: я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

If you show me you need it, I′ll let you have credit,

Если ты покажешь мне, что тебе это нужно, я дам тебе кредит,

I'm a Jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

Я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

Just bring me back two for the one I lend you,

Просто верни мне два за тот один, что я одолжил тебе,

Singin' I′m jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

Напевая: я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

When the bugs get your cotton, the times they are rotten,

Когда жуки сожрут твой хлопок, и времена станут гнилыми,

I′m jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

Я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

I'll come down and help you, I′ll rake you and scalp you,

Я приду и помогу тебе, я тебя обдеру как липку,

Singin' I′m jolly banker jolly banker am I.

Напевая: я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

When the landlords abuse you, or sadly misuse you,

Когда помещики обижают тебя или грубо обманывают,

I'm a jolly banker, Jolly banker am I.

Я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

I′ll send down the police chief to keep you from mischief,

Я пришлю шефа полиции, чтобы уберечь тебя от неприятностей,

Singin' I'm jolly banker, jolly banker am I.

Напевая: я веселый банкир, веселый банкир, да, это я.

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Writer(s): Woody Guthrie

Album

American Radical Patriot

date of release

01-01-2013

1 Nine Hundred Miles
2 Do Re Mi
3 Dust Pneumonia Blues
4 Pretty Boy Floyd
5 I Ain't Got No Home
6 Sally Don't You Grieve
7 Hard, Ain't It Hard
8 Ramblin' Round
9 Dust Storm Disaster
10 Dust Bowl Refugee
11 Will Rogers Highway
12 Los Angeles New Year's Flood
13 Ramblin' Blues
14 Columbia's Waters
15 Talking Columbia
16 New Found Land
17 Roll On Columbia
18 Oregon Trail
19 Pastures of Plenty
20 Lonesome Valley
21 Stewball
22 Gypsy Davy
23 It Takes a Married Man to Sing a Worried Song
24 Greenback Dollar
25 Talking Dust Bowl
26 Worried Man Blues
27 The Jolly Banker
28 Jesus Christ
29 Jesse James
30 Billy the Kid
31 Farmer-Labor Train
32 End of My Line
33 Washington Talkin' Blues
34 Grand Coulee Dam
35 Jackhammer Blues
36 The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done
37 The Sinking of the Reuben James
38 Hard Travelin'
39 Lost Train
40 Refugees Pouring Into California
41 Migrants Arriving In California
42 Jimmie Rodgers
43 California Blues
44 Leaving the Dust Bowl
45 Breathing In Dust
46 The Dust Storm of April 14, 1935
47 Contractors Duping the Desperate
48 Interlude 3
49 Wish I'd Stayed In the Wagon Yard
50 Seven Cent Cotton
51 Interlude 2
52 Going Down the Road
53 Riding the Rails
54 Goin' Down the Frisco Line
55 Interlude
56 Walkin' Down That Railroad Line
57 Railroad Blueses
58 California As One of the 48 States
59 The Flood That Took Over 100 Lives
60 Roll Columbia, Roll
61 Introduction
62 Introducing an Old Song
63 The Trail To Mexico
64 Interlude 7
65 Git Along Little Dogies
66 Interlude 6
67 One Dime Blues
68 Interlude 5
69 Stagger Lee
70 Interlude 4
71 A Good Horse
72 About the Worried Man Blues
73 Dust Storms Devastate the Farmland
74 So Long, It's Been Good To Know Ya
75 The End of the World
76 When the Great Dust Storm Struck
77 The Midnight Special
78 Jailhouse Songs
79 Boll Weevil
80 Lomax Asks About the Boll Weevil
81 The Troubles and Tragedies That Fractured Woody's Family In Okemah
82 Green Valley Waltz
83 Alan Asks For Another One
84 Beaumont Rag
85 Alan Lomax Asks For a Tune
86 Old Joe Clark
87 Some Old-time Square Dance Tunes
88 Rye Whiskey
89 The Gang of Kids Woody Hung Around With
90 More Talk of Growing Up In Okemah
91 The Railroad Blues
92 Growing Up In Oklahoma
93 Migrants Arrive In California
94 Hard Times
95 Let's Sing Some Blues
96 Chain Around My Leg
97 The Origins of the Song - Continued
98 The Origins of the Song
99 Mary Fagan
100 The Story of Mary Fagan
101 Dirty Overhauls
102 Hundreds of Thousands Made Homeless
103 Another Song About the Depredations of the Bankers
104 Takin' It From the Rich and Givin' It To the Poor
105 Jesse James and His Boys
106 Billy the Kid and Pretty Boy Floyd
107 Songs About Outlaws
108 Bring Back To Me My Blue-Eyed Boy
109 Songs About Hard Times
110 Songs About Bankers
111 The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (Reprise)
112 Jazz In America #116
113 Gitta Long, Mr. Hitler
114 Jazz In America #93
115 Labor For Victory
116 The Girl In the Red, White, and Blue
117 Reckless Talk
118 Takin' It Eay
119 Song of the Coulee Dam
120 Narrator
121 VD Avenue
122 Empty Boxcar, My Home
123 Hard Times In the Durant Jail
124 The Old Cracked Looking Glass
125 The Biggest Thing That Man Has Ever Done (From "The Columbia Program")
126 Narrator (The Lonesome Traveler - Radio Drama)
127 Brooklyne Towne
128 V.D. Gunner's Blues
129 Dig a Hole
130 A Child of VD
131 VD City
132 VD Seaman's Letter
133 A Case of VD
134 Blessed and Curst
135 Intro 2
136 The Veedee Blues
137 Intro 1
138 VD Day

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