[00:00.000] 作曲 : David Stefan Rovics
[00:09.483]When I came to this country, left Scotland far behind
[00:13.945]Evicted from the highlands, told to go and find
[00:18.708]A new life in America across the Atlantic Sea
[00:23.630]Where I joined the millions of other refugees
[00:27.533]Who ended up at Ellis Island as the century began
[00:32.736]The wretched of the Earth from every foreign land
[00:36.885]When I came to this country, broken and bereft
[00:41.727]I quickly saw I'd have been no worse off if I'd never left
[00:46.676]Such awful deprivations as I'd never had to face
[00:51.183]Borne by Swedes and Russians, Africans and every other race
[00:56.052]Millions of people trying not to end up dead
[01:00.492]From cholera or blacklung or getting clubbed on the head
[01:09.925]When I came to this country, to have something on my fork
[01:13.980]It was obvious the first thing was to get out of New York
[01:18.741]I learned to hop the free trains, some other stiffs and I
[01:23.618]Caught a westbound rattler to give Oregon a try
[01:28.178]Signed up for the logging camps, became a timber beast
[01:32.609]If I'd stayed there any longer I'd have surely been deceased
[01:37.572]When I came to this country, I worked the copper mines in Butte
[01:41.436]I was a gandy dancer in Spokane in a gandy dancer suit
[01:46.678]I heard the Rebel Girl speak one night in a railway yard
[01:51.241]I joined the union right away and got my first red card
[01:56.001]I became a hobo organizer for the One Big Union grand
[02:00.922]Preaching the Wobbly gospel across this starving land
[02:14.884]When I came to this country, I soon enough lost track
[02:19.527]Of the number of times I felt a billy club upon my back
[02:24.077]Or how many times I saw the tents with freezing kids
[02:29.169]Working in the mines instead of living on the skids
[02:33.611]How many times I heard the horrid crying from below
[02:38.079]Of those trapped there in the dungeons with nowhere left to go
[02:43.268]When I came to this country, it was a hopeful time of desperation
[02:47.935]The red flags flew all across the nation
[02:52.282]But when the war began in Europe we refused to die and kill
[02:56.914]We refused to fight a bosses' war and serve the bosses' will
[03:01.705]That's when they got the Legion to burn down our union halls
[03:06.554]All across the land, where there used to be four walls
[03:16.023]When I came to this country, I had no great expectations
[03:20.948]But I didn't think I'd end up back here awaiting deportation
[03:25.091]On a steamship on the Hudson, I watch the sunset fade
[03:30.135]With 20,000 others swept up in the Palmer Raids
[03:35.096]Counting myself lucky that I'm still alive
[03:39.530]Remembering the moment that I first arrived
[03:44.032]When I came to this country
[03:47.032]When I came to this country
[03:50.032]When I came to this country...