"Three Wooden Crosses"(“三个木制十字架”)是由美国乡村音乐创作歌手Randy Travis(兰迪·特拉维斯)于2003年录制的,在2003年被乡村音乐协会(Country Music Association)评为年度最佳歌曲(Song of the Year),并赢得了福音音乐协会(Gospel Music Association)的2004年Dove奖(年度最佳乡村歌曲 Country Song of the Year),算是当年大热的乡村歌曲。
There are three wooden crosses on the right side of the highway,
Why there's not four of them, Heaven only knows.
I guess it's not what you take when you leave this world behind you,
It's what you leave behind you when you go.
带着这个问题,我们来到了歌词的第二段,歌词中提到,农民和教师在车祸中丧生,农民留下了当年的收成和一个儿子继续追随他的脚步,而老师留下了她教给孩子们的知识。歌词中还提到,传教士把他血迹斑斑的圣经交到妓女手中,问她是否可以“看见应许之地” (see the Promised Land,意思是指找到自己的幸福归宿)。
That farmer left a harvest, a home and eighty acres,
The faith an' love for growin' things in his young son's heart.?
An' that teacher left her wisdom in the minds of lots of children:
Did her best to give 'em all a better start.
An' that preacher whispered: "Can't you see the Promised Land?"
As he laid his blood-stained bible in that hooker's hand.填写图片摘要(选填)