Текст песни The Air Conditioner Song (Bobby Bare) с переводом

Oh, the sound of the thing is not a ring

It’s more like a pleasant purr

And the only sound I hear at night

Is the sound of my purring air-conditioner.

The air is pure and dehumidified

Thermostatically controlled

Now I have no desire to perspire

And that’s how progress goes.

But the sound of their singing thrilled me

As distantly but clearly it rang

Though I never saw their faces

And never knew their names.

And the gentle breeze brought sweet dreams

Of sweethearts that I never saw

Who sang «You Are My Sunshine»

In Newport, Arkansas…

(I had a bird he flew away and I guess he’s gone to stay

But I see him winging on his way my flyaway bird named Yesterday)

(He's riding on a train)

I’m from Chattanooga Tennessee

That’s a town that’s neither very large nor very small

But it was a very strategic place about a hundred years ago

Though during the Civil War cause it was a very important rail center

In 1862 a federal agent got the idea

Of destroin' the railroad between Atlanta and Chattanooga

So he alone with 27 volunteers captured the train engine called the General

And they captured it in big Shanty Georgia

While its passengers and crew were eatin' breakfast

And there was a big chase that followed but finally the General was

recaptured In fact that old engine is on display in our train station now

And sometimes they take it out on the tour under its own steam

Yeah the old General still runs and I go down to the station sometimes

And just stand and look at that old engine cause I like trains anyway

You know when you think about it trains are not really much different today

Than they were a hundred or so years ago

Oh the engines have changed from steam to diesel but that’s about all

Some folks say they’re not very practical for carryin' passangers

And that all the passanger trains will be gone in a few years

But we still have a few of 'em left and every once in a while

I like to get on one and take a trip somewhere

And when I’m on a train I always have a strange feeling that I’m visiting the

past You know Abraham Lincoln rode trains but he never rode in a car or a

bus or an airplane.

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