[00:00.000] 作曲 : Robert Jay Horton
[00:18.947] Oh, once upon a time in Arkansas,
[00:21.102] An old man sat in his little cabin door
[00:23.486] And fiddled at a tune that he liked to hear,
[00:25.809] A jolly old tune that he played by ear.
[00:28.069] It was raining hard, but the fiddler didn't care,
[00:30.269] He sawed away at the popular air,
[00:32.702] Tho' his rooftree leaked like a waterfall,
[00:35.082] That didn't seem to bother the man at all.
[00:56.102] A traveler was riding by that day,
[00:58.213] And stopped to hear him a-practicing away;
[01:00.648] The cabin was a-float and his feet were wet,
[01:03.135] But still the old man didn't seem to fret.
[01:05.381] So the stranger said "Now the way it seems to me,
[01:07.864] You'd better mend your roof," said he.
[01:10.153] But the old man said as he played away,
[01:12.401] "I couldn't mend it now, it's a rainy day."
[01:33.462] The traveler replied, "That's all quite true,
[01:35.799] But this, I think, is the thing to do;
[01:38.241] Get busy on a day that is fair and bright,
[01:40.539] Then patch the old roof till it's good and tight."
[01:42.834] But the old man kept on a-playing at his reel,
[01:45.172] And tapped the ground with his leathery heel.
[01:47.509] "Get along," said he, "for you give me a pain;
[01:49.888] My cabin never leaks when it doesn't rain."