"同船的还有 个外国旅游团，是由抗战时在滇缅前线同我们并肩作战过的美国名将 史迪威的女儿南西率领的。
On the same ship was an American tourist group headed by Nancy, daughter of famous US general Joseph Warren Stilwell, who served in China during World War Il, fighting side by side with Chinese soldiers against Japan on the Yunnan-Burma front.
船航到神女峰脚下时，我们正在甲板上举 行着一次联欢会Q。
When the ship arrived at the foot of Mount Goddess, we were in the midst of a get-together on deck.
为了表示友好， 我们几个就凑在一起(记得有宗璞、艾芜、邹荻帆、绿原和黄裳）用英 语唱了一首《老黑奴》。
So, to be friendly, we, including Zong Pu, Ai Wu, Zou Difan, Lu Yuan and Huang Chang, if I remember correctly, grouped together to sing in English the American folk song Old Black Joe.
这是一支十分凄凉的歌曲，黑人厌倦了尘世，听到已死去的 亲人的呼唤，渴望奔向另一世界O。
The said Black Joe, being sick and tired of the mortal world, longs to go to a better world on hearing the gentle voice of his departed folks calling, "Old Black Joe!
可是唱完之后，居然博得了美国旅伴们一阵热烈的学声。
Nevertheless, we won the warm applause of our American fellow travelers.
我们 得意的不一定是因为那掌声，而是对自己感到既愉快又吃惊：这么多 年，竟然还没把它忘掉！
But we felt pleased with ourselves not because of the warm applause, but because we were surprised to find ourselves still remembering the words of the song after SO mnany years.
这首歌的歌词和曲调都同出自19世纪中叶美国作曲家斯蒂芬•福 斯特之手。
Both the words and tune of the song were written by Stephen C.
他出生于1826年，一共只活了短短的38年。
Born in 1826, he died in 1864, two years after the outbreak of the American Civil War, ending a short life of only 38.
可惜我没读过他的传记，他肯定十分 同情黑人并为他们抱不平的。
Much to my regret, haven't read any of biographies yet.
我熟悉好几首他编的描述黑人生活的 歌曲，像《双亲在家园》(1851)。
I'm familiar with quite a few songs of his composition describing the sad plight of Blacks, such as Old Folks at (1851).
我还有幸在伦敦的一次音乐会上，听 过著名黑人歌手保罗．罗伯逊唱过《老人河》。
I was happy to listen to famous Black singer Paul Robeson sing Old Man River at a concert in London.
那次，他还唱了咱们 的《游击队之歌》 很奇怪，河的形象时常在黑人的歌曲中出现。
He then also sang our Song of Guerillas.
像"远远地在斯旺 尼河上"。
Strangely, Black people often sing of rivers in their songs, as witness "Way down upon the Swanee River, far, far away" in Old Folks at Home.
也许他们在美国南方那一望无际的旱地上干活，受着白人 的虐待，心里渴望有一片水。
It is perhaps because they were dying for water while toiling under White tyranny on the boundless stretch of arid land in the southern states.
天堂也经常在黑人歌曲中出现。
Likewise, heaven often appears in their songs.
处于绝境的人们就是靠这种幻想 來解脱一些痛苦。
It is because people in a hopeless situation often indulge in fantasies to free themselves from innermost sufferings.
福斯特也有些歌写得轻快。
Some of Foster's songs are nevertheless very lively.
他在歌 中除了抒发黑人在奴役中的痛苦之外，也亲切地描绘了他们的生活。
It depicts not only the misery of the enslaved Blacks.
But also their way of life.
像《我的肯塔基故乡 》就富于泥土气息，真切生动地唱出了美国南方 黑人的生活情景："玉米穗成热。
My Kentucky Home, for example, is a song full of local color.
小鸟终日歌唱好 悠扬，娃娃滚戏小农舍地板上。
While the birds make music all the day, the young folks roll on the little cabin floor."' But the song still ends up with grief: Weep no more, my lady, oh!
"不过歌曲仍是在忧伤中结束的： 英再哭泣，姑娘，今天英再哀伤， 我们唱一支歌，为肯塔基故乡， 为那遥远的肯塔基故乡。
We will sing one song for the old Kentucky Home, For the old Kentucky Home, far away.
当然，有些流传到中国的美国歌曲描绘的不一定都是黑人的生 活。
Of course, not all American songs prevalent in China are about the life of Black people.
同样流行于30年代的一首外国歌曲是《伏尔加船夫曲 》。
Another foreign song popular in China during the thirties was The Song of the Volga Boatmen.
像咱们 的四川号子一样，这里描绘的是在伏尔加河上拉纤的俄罗斯河工的苦 状。
Like the Sichuan labor chant, it describes misery of Russian boat-trackers along the Volga River.