我是威利·狄克森 I'm willie dixon.
我录这张唱片 And I'm making this here audio recording
是为了让你来到切斯工作室时 So that when you visit chess recording studio,
能了解这些历史 You know the history.
第一次有女孩把自己的内衣脱下 Now, the first time a gal took off her underwear
扔到舞台上 And threw them on stage
是因为有个小伙子在唱蓝调 It was on account of a fella singing the blues.
现在 白人姑娘们也开始这么做了 Now, when the white girls started doing it,
那是为了摇滚乐 They called that rock and roll.
他们引领众人制作音乐 Took a whole lot of people to make the music
进而改变世界 That changed the world.
你知道 我一个人撑不起这台戏 Yes, sir. this story ain't just about me.
这场大戏由两个男人拉开帷幕 It all started with two men.
一个是个芝加哥白人男孩 One a white boy from chicago.
列恩 我们什么时候结婚 Len, when are we getting married?
我主是吾见证 A witness for my lord
另一个是个密西西比佃农 The other a sharecropper from mississippi.
说 谁是吾之见证 Say, who was a witness?
这一年是1941年 The year was 1941.
说 丹尼尔是吾见证 Say, daniel was a witness
我们什么时候结婚啊 When are we getting married?
我没钱 I don't have the money.
我说过 没钱我无所谓的 I told you I'd be fine without it.
对我来说 有所谓 Well, I wouldn't.
你不懂这对我爸意味着什么 You don't know what it did to my father.
我不能让你没饭吃 I can't watch you go hungry.
爸爸 Da.
你好吗 菲德尔先生 Oh, how you doing, mr. feder?
你好 爸爸 Hi, dad.
我想娶她 I want to marry her.
菲德尔先生 我不知道你会怎么想 Mr. feder, I don't know if I told you,
但我打算金盆洗手 不干垃圾场的活儿了 But I've been making plans to get out of the junk business.
我要在这儿开个俱乐部 I'm gonna open a club here.
与黑鬼为邻吗 In the negro neighborhood?
对 就是为他们开的 Yeah. it's gonna be for negroes.
你要把雪莱送到黑人俱乐部去吗 You're taking shelly to negro clubs?
不 怎么会 No, of course not.
我只是 No, I'm just...
想让你知道我在为以后做打算 I'd like you to know that I'm making plans for the future.
这么说你对这婚事是认真的了 So, you are serious about this marriage then?
对 Yeah.
我是说 等我钱够了再娶她 I mean, when I can afford it.
我跟你父亲来自波兰同一个鬼地方 Your father and i, we come from the same shithole in poland.
我大老远过来 I didn't travel all this way
不是为了把女儿嫁给从家乡来的笨蛋 To have my daughter marry some schmuck from the same village.
你说什么 What did you say?
-你都说了些什么 -进去 - what did you say? - get in.
伦纳德 Leonard.
别管我是打哪来的 Don't worry where I'm from.
我老婆有一天会开上卡迪拉克的 My wife's gonna drive a cadillac.
来的是谁啊 Now, who is this here?
快 进屋去 Go on, get in the house now.
麦肯利·摩根菲尔德吗 Mckinley morganfield?
我是 阁下是 Yes, sir?
我是艾伦·洛马克斯 I'm alan lomax,
这是菲斯克大学的约翰先生 And this is mr. john work from fisk university.
-你好吗 -不错 你呢 - how you doing? - fine. you?
我是为国会图书馆采集民谣来的 I'm recording folk music for the library of congress.
民谣 Folk music?
你能帮我移一下麦克风吗 谢谢 Could you move into the mike a little bit for me? thanks.
兄弟 弹吉他 Play that thing, man.
那是我的声音吗 That's what I sound like, huh?
对 就是你刚才唱的 Yes, sir, that's what you sound like.
感觉像第一次听见自己的声音 Feel like I'm meeting myself for the first time.
是的 他发现自己是个人才 And he was. and he knew it was a man he was meeting,
不应屈居于他出生的那个奴隶窝棚 Too big for that slave shack he was born in
也不应屈居于那个种植园 And too big for that plantation.
芝加哥
彼时 木吉他的声音可在南方乡村悠远流长 Now, the acoustic guitar was fine down south,
因为四下里 Because there's nothing
荒无人烟 But miles of empty fields out your window.
但在城里 到处是汽车跟电车 But in the city, with all them streetcars and automobiles,
连你自己的声音都听不到 You couldn't get yourself heard.
嘿 老弟 这儿没人对老土的音乐感兴趣 Hey, boy, ain't nobody want to hear that sharecropping music.
拍拍屁股滚回密西西比吧 Take that shit back down there to mississippi.
嘿 Hey.
你太扰人清净了 You're disturbing the peace!
你为啥要找我茬 姑娘 Why you want to cut me for, girl?
你一上午都这样跟女孩嬉皮笑脸的 You have been giving that same smile to girls all morning.
肯定套到三个地址了吧 You must have three addresses in your pocket.
什么地址 Addresses?
没有啊 No.
-你惹事了 明白吗 -我懂 - you're trouble. you know that? - I know.
那你呢 How about you?
你该走了 在我妈带孩子回来前 快 You got to go, before my mama brings the boys home. come on.
-孩子们少了个爹 -你不是当爹的料 - maybe those boys need a daddy. - you're not daddy material.
我配不上你吗 I'm not good enough for you?
我不像你那么能说会道 是吧 I don't talk as good as you or something, huh?
每当你弹起那个曲子 When I heard you start playing that music
都会把我带到一个很美的地方 玛迪 It took me someplace so good, muddy.
很美 So good.
接住了 宝贝 Here you go, baby.
这俱乐部是你开的吗 Are you the owner of this club?
是 我开的 Yes, I am.
伊莎贝拉·艾伦 我是录黑人唱片的 Isabella allen. I make race records.
列恩·切斯 你好吗 Len chess. how you doing? wow.
好车啊 天 看看这些线条 This is a beauty. god, look at the lines on this thing.
酷毙了 It's incredible.
你录黑人唱片能买的起这样的车吗 You can buy a car like this making race records?
只要找到合适的歌手就能 If you find the right singer.
嘿 要是你遇见唱的好的 要告诉我啊 Hey, I'd love to know if you hear someone special.
制作人 对不 A record producer, huh?
要找我 这上面有联系办法 There'd be something in it for you.
好的 All right.
美人儿 这是辆好车 Sweet. that's a beautiful car.
你在找姑娘吗 You looking for girls?
什么 不 我是开俱乐部的 Excuse me? no, I'm opening a club.
你把一堆男的灌醉我不管 I don't mind you getting men all liquored up
但我的两个女儿都被唱蓝调的拐跑了 But I lost two daughters to bluesmen.
你干的是个危险的勾当 Dangerous business you in.
你想干吗 What are you doing?
玛迪遇到小沃尔特时 他才17岁 When muddy met little walter, he was just 17 years old,
但他是有史以来最优秀的口琴演奏家 But he was the greatest harp player that ever lived.
就是这样 机缘巧合 That's it. that's all of it.
-好样的 -给我伴奏 - yeah, man. - play that for me.
让我弹一下吉他 我就给你一块钱 I'll give you $1 if you let me strum that guitar.
我弹琴能赚到更多 I can busk more than your dollar.
-我出两块 -你是猎头吗 - I'll give you $2. - you a headhunter?
你想抢我饭碗吗 老弟 You fixing to chop my head off with my own guitar? man.
切 我弹的比你好 Shit, you can't play better than me.
把吉他给我 兄弟 Let me see the guitar, man.
好家伙 你老爸真会做饭 对不 Hey, big guy, your daddy sure can cook, huh?
你不给沃尔特倒吗 You're not gonna take care of walter?
哦 我不喝 Oh, I don't drink none of that.
饮酒伤身 沃尔特 我给你弄洗澡水去 Good for you, walter. I'll make you a nice bath.
好 谢谢你 Okay, thank you, ma'am.
你带枪干吗 Why you got a gun?
预备着给好人来一枪子儿 In case in any good guys need shooting.
你是指坏人吧 You mean the bad guys?
我就是坏人 I is the bad guy.
安静 吓着孩子了 吹你的口琴吧 Hush now, scaring my boys, and let me hear some of that harp.
好 好 Okay, okay.
停 停 停 停下 Wait. wait. wait. wait.
-你都跑哪去了 -跟着我 继续 - where in the hell you going? - follow me now. come on.
不 不 看这儿 你跟吉他 孩儿 No, no, no. no, look here. you follow this guitar, son.
孩儿 "son"?
你可以弹你的狗屁吉他 You can play the shit out of that guitar,
我一直跟着你的调都行 So I'll follow you anywhere you want,
但你再也不许叫我"孩儿" But don't you ever be calling me no "son. "
明白吗 Okay?
-我不需要老爸 -不 孩子 你缺的是老妈 - I don't need no daddy. - no, boy, what you need is a mama.
一个为你洗衣 给你做饭 Someone who will feed you and clothe you
在你洗澡时嘱咐你拿好东西的人 And tell you to get your behind in that bath.
你知道 他们怎么说 Well, you know what they say, now.
男人有再多的老妈也不为过 A man can't have too many mamas.
你也不需要枪 你需要香皂 And you don't need this. you need soap.
他和我很配 吉内瓦 He fit me, geneva.
听的出来 I heard.
他配我 He fit me.
他们成立了个组合 They was a family now.
小沃尔特 玛迪·沃特斯和吉米·罗杰斯 Little walter, muddy waters and jimmy rogers
取名叫"明星三人组" Called themselves "the all-star trio,"
但人们叫它"猎头者" But everybody else knew them as "the headhunters"
因为他们老把对手打的落花流水 On account of how they sliced their competition.
帮个忙好吗 Will you help me out here?
-换个地方 弱智 -让他们演 - get your own gig, motherfucker! - let them play!
-一边去 老玛 -真他妈背 - get out of the way, mud. - fucking son of a bitch!
这是我和这弱智的事 闪到一边 老玛 This is between me and this motherfucker. get out the way, mud.
-孩子 -我说过不许这样叫我 - son... - I told you never to be calling me that.
你是说过 但我们是一伙儿的了 I know you did. but we family now.
那你他妈要干吗 老玛 Then what the fuck you doing, mud?
给我枪 Give me that pistol.
我不想教训你 可你要是死了就太可惜了 I ain't trying to boss you. but you're just too good to lose.
要是你以后不惹祸进局子或被杀掉 We'll burn chicago down
我们会红遍芝加哥的 If you don't get your ass locked up or killed.
你觉得我以前没玩过这个吗 You think I never used this before?
我知道你用过枪 I know you did.
那你该知道我要毙了这傻逼 Then you know I'll shoot this whole motherfucker up then.
但是今晚不行 But you ain't got to use it tonight.
如果他傻到继续为难你 If he foolish enough to come after you
我会亲手毙了他的 I'll put the bullet in him my damn self.
你真够疯的 老玛 You a crazy motherfucker, mud.
跑啊 弱智 快跑 Run, motherfucker! run!
你也该走了 You can get out of here, too.
我来说服这儿的人别报警 I'll talk this peckerwood into not calling the police.
好的 Oh, okay.
抱歉给你添麻烦了 老板 Sorry about the damage, boss.
你砸了我的场子 你 Yeah, you fucked up my place. you...
是啊 真对不住 老板 Yes, sir. it's a damn shame, boss.
滚出去吧 Just get out.
这儿 接住 Here. there you go.
谢谢 Appreciate it.
真他妈背 Fucked up my shit.
没见过投球吗 你要这么干 Ain't never see them pitchers? here's how you do it.
当你拿到球 你要扬起那只腿 When you get that ball, you gonna kick that leg over.
像这样把球抛出去 You gonna throw that thing way up there like that.
嘿 我到处找你 Been looking all over for you.
我们在工作 先生 We're just here working, sir.
我原想你不追究了 老板 I thought we was all right, boss.
别叫的我像个傻逼种植园主似的 Stop talking to me like I'm some damn plantation owner.
那你来干吗 What the fuck you want then?
我要你录个唱片 I want to put you on a record.
-唱片 -对 没错 - a record? - yeah, that's right.
你耍我吧 You're kidding.
没有 老板 No, sir, boss.
我们说白了吧 Let me get this straight now.
我们砸了你的场子 We shoot up half your whole joint,
而你要我录个唱片 And now you want to put us on a record.
对的 没错 Yeah, that's right.
我觉得你不赖 I hear good things about you.
-什么时候录 -马上 录音室订好了 - when do you want to do this? - right now. the studio's booked.
-但我先要干完活儿 -不 不用 - but I got to get my band. - no, you don't.
吹口琴的那混蛋也不用 就你们了 Not the crazy harp-playing motherfucker, you don't. no. just you.
你想来吗 You want to do this?
-想 -赶快 录音室已经订好了 - yeah. - come on. studio's booked.
我正要离去 再也不回来 Well, I'm going away to leave won't be back no more
回到南方乡村 宝贝 Going back down south, child...
伦纳德·切斯不在乎歌手的肤色 Now, leonard chess didn't worry none about skin color.
在乎的是能赚多少票子 It was the color of them bills that mattered.
等你赚了大把的钞票 Just get you enough green to cover yourself
你就不再是下等人了 And then you ain't no jew-boy no more.
也不是黑鬼了 And you ain't no colored boy either.
你就是开卡迪拉克的爷们儿 You're just a man with a cadillac.
太漂亮了 It's so beautiful!
-咱家的车还不够吗 -宝贝 别说"够"这词 - do we have enough? - hi, baby. stop with the "enough. "
这是美国 要说"更"进一步 This is america. the word is "more. "
我喜欢你老公的思维方式 I like the way your husband thinks.
你一定是玛迪吧 You must be muddy.
我是勒维塔 我喜欢你的歌 I'm revetta. I love your record.
谢谢 很高兴认识你 Thank you. pleasure to meet you.
我收拾了一个礼拜 没差啥吧 I packed for a week. will that be enough?
嗯 一样不缺 Yeah, that ought to be good.
我猜她想问的是 你要离开多久 I think she's asking, how long are you gonna be gone.
过来 宝贝 Come here. hey.
闭上眼 Close your eyes.
留个朋友在我走的时候陪你 A little friend to keep you company while I'm gone.
看看吧 There you go.
-咱们买的起么 -甭担心价钱 很漂亮 - can we afford this? - don't worry about it. it's classy.
谢谢 Thank you.
那是一整片的大洋 I tell you, that's a whole lot of ocean.
要费掉我吃奶的劲儿才能过去 Take a hell of a lot to get me to cross it.
你为啥不在波兰老实呆着 How come you didn't stay your ass in poland?
那你为啥不在密西西比老实呆着 How come you didn't stay your ass in mississippi?
阿伦知道广播是唯一能扩大影响的方式 Len knew the only way to make it big was radio.
所以带玛迪来到了南部 And that meant taking muddy back down south.
-太感谢了 -他收的名酒够多了 - thank you very much. - the man don't need no more scotch.
我借别人了好多钱 I got a hell of a mortgage.
嗯 我也借了一笔 Yeah, I got one of those.
我要告诉你 桌上的这唱片 I tell you what. throw this record on the table.
每个人都值得买一张 It pays off everybody's.
伦纳德 Leonard...
要是玛迪的唱片能卖 我就会出更多张 If people buy muddy's record, I got to make more.
然后我每个月都来你这播 Then I'm into you every month.
对啊 但是我得公道点啊 你知道 Yeah, but I got to be fair, you know.
我知道你得公道 I know you got to be fair.
这家伙带来了格兰菲迪 The motherfuckers bring in the glenfiddich
和尊尼获加[两种名酒] and the johnnie walker.
不过你要问问你自己 But you got to ask yourself,
他们舍得出票子吗 Do they really stand up to jackson and grant?
我才不会贿赂一个广播员呢 I don't bribe deejays.
我会 I do.
你清楚他在乎的不是你的音乐 You realize he doesn't care about your music.
只不过是钱罢了 It's just about the money with him.
各位 现在放的是最新的 Everybody, this is the newest race music
来自芝加哥的黑人音乐 Right out of chicago.
看你们的了 You're on your own.
当时在南方 Now, in the south,
白人和黑人不坐同一辆车 Whites and coloreds didn't ride around in the same car
除非黑人是司机 Unless the colored man was chauffeuring.
他妈的密西西比条子 Fuck mississippi police.
你该感谢他们 You got to bless them.
够了 好 谢谢 All right.enough.good.
-好味道 -客房服务 - it's very good. - room service.
哦 你们好 Well, hello.
-我们在广播里听过你 -快请进 - we heard you on the radio. - come on in.
他不咬人 我也不咬 No, he don't bite. and I don't either.
弹啊 宝贝 Play it, daddy.
别太快 Don't rush it.
现在别踩点 那是芝加哥的心跳 Don't step on it now. that's chicago's heartbeat.
继续 来 Go on, now.
你头发真有趣 You've got such hair.
给我弹那段 宝贝 Play that for me, daddy.
我骗你的 美女 I lied to you, girl.
我喜欢 Yeah, I like that.
去哪 我让给你一个 where you going? I'll swing one over your way.
我有老婆 I'm married.
她们还没开苞呢 Yeah, and they ain't redhead.
扯淡 That's bullshit.
这才对 宝贝 回来 来 Yeah, that's right. come on, daddy. come on back.
我要来真的了 Preacher lay his bible down.
我们将在德尔塔市中心演播室为您带来 We're coming straight to you from down in the delta
玛迪·沃特斯以及他大卖唱片的直播 With muddy waters and his hit record.
没错 阳光男孩 你好吗 That's right. sunshine, how you doing?
如果可以 I want to say a big hello, if I can,
我想对全科荷马郡的人问个好 To everybody down in coahoma county.
他们有大把蓝调歌手在密西西比田间劳作 They got a whole mess of bluesmen working mississippi fields.
我在那时就时常唱起 When I was out there I used to sing...
没有比这更好的时候了 Time don't get no better
沿着马路走 Up the road I'm going
在这里 我要感谢列恩·切斯 So, you know, I want to thank old len chess here for
给了我扬名立万的机会 Giving muddy water a chance to shine.
这是否说你不会离开了 Does that mean you're staying where you are?
因为我听说 Because I know some labels down here
有人想挖你 Who'd love to snap you up.
他们可以试试 但我是切斯家族的一份子 Well, they can try all they want to, but I belong to the chess family.
我们现在来听一首玛迪·沃特斯的歌曲 We're gonna play a little something from muddy waters right now.
名字是留给我 Lay it on me.
你在广播里说的那些 真的不错 It was kind, what you said on the radio.
你知道 一起建立事业 和建立家庭一样 You know, starting a business together, it is like starting a family.
多谢 Appreciate that.
呃 怎么 你要我签这东西 Yeah, well, how come, then, you need me to sign this thing?
做生意都这样 That's what people do in business.
你知道 你在吉他方面有一手 You know, you got a power with that guitar.
很棒 连昨夜那三个女人都愿为你脱衣服 Amazing. it even put three women in your bed last night.
对啊 可你说你有老婆 Yeah, but you married.
我不喜欢那种女人 总可以吧 I like another kind of broad. does that bother you?
那关我什么事 What's that gonna bother me for?
我只是说 我不会象那样 不是那种人 I'm just saying, it doesn't make me like them. and that's not me.
那不是我 I'm not that.
那你是什么人 Who is you?
签了合同你就知道了 Sign the contract and find out.
你有笔吗 You got a pen there?
好的 All right.
下面是最新的来自芝加哥的黑人音乐 This is the newest race music right out of chicago.
希望你能记住这个名字 And I want you to remember this name.
玛迪·沃特斯 Muddy waters.
下次我再也不签字了 除非结婚时 The last time I signed something like this, I got married.
这样就行了 Well, that's what this is.
除非死亡把我们分开 Till death do us part.
另外 这车归你了 By the way, the car's yours.
-什么意思 -你赚来的 - what do you mean? - you earned it.
玛迪 听广播 Muddy! listen!
现在播放的是玛迪·沃特斯的歌曲"无法满足" Now playing muddy waters' can't be satisfied, wges chicago.
讲的你 It's you!
[玛迪·沃特斯的"无法满足"专辑销量破3000]
-宝贝进来 -不 我得干活去 - come on in here. - no! I got to go to work!
-来吧 宝贝 -不 不行 玛迪 - come on in, mama. - muddy, don't! muddy!
一个周日的夜晚 On a sunday night,
列恩的俱乐部里恰好空无一人时 When no one happened to be in len's club,
俱乐部神秘起火 被烧毁了 The macomba mysteriously burned down.
嗨 老公 Hi, daddy.
他把保险理赔金都用到录音室了 He put the insurance money into this here recording studio.
嗨 Hi.
嗨 宝贝 你好吗 Hi, baby. hi, there. how you doing?
看 进展不错 是吧 Look. it's coming along, huh?
-我们又要延期还款了 列恩 -是啊 - we're late on our mortgage again, len. - yeah.
-要再等一等 -你在拿我们的家当赌注 - it's gonna have to wait. - you're gambling our home.
-我们会赢来更大的 -如果没有呢 - yeah. and we're gonna win big. - and if we don't?
我不会让你失望的 宝贝 I won't let you down, babe.
我不会让你失望 I won't let you down.
-戴夫 给她看看 转下 -好的 - dave, show her the... spin the thing. - sure thing.
看到了吗? You see this?
切斯的录音室是芝加哥最好的 Chess records was the best studio in chicago.
音效无人能敌 Had a sound nobody could touch.
帮我接上 快 Tie me up. come on.
-看到没 -你们应该都看看 - did everybody see? - you guys better watch out now.
小沃尔特接上电了 Little walter getting electrified!
他把音响给一个吹口琴的用 He's amplifying a fucking harmonica.
等等 切斯 给他个机会 再看看 Wait, chess. let him try it. watch it now.
-好啊 继续 -开始 - all right. go ahead. - take one.
四十个日日夜夜 Forty days and forty nights
自从亲爱的你离开这里 Since my baby left this town
他盖住了玛迪的声音 我要剪掉 He's blowing all over muddy's vocals. I got to cut.
不 等等 No, hold on.
但是雨继续下个不停 But the rain keep coming down
她是我的生命 我不能没有她 She my life, I need her so
我不明白她为什么离去 Why she left I just don't know
让他吹吧 Let it ride.
你不能录一个专辑里面都是口琴啊 You can't record a record with harmonica all over the place.
不 我们可以 Yeah, we can.
四十个 Forty days...
不错 Okay.
日日夜夜 And forty nights
当我停下脚步开始哭泣 Since I set right down and cried
虽然一直下着雨 Keep raining all the time
河水依然会干涸 But the river running dry
上帝帮帮我 这不应该 Lord help me, it just ain't right
我用尽全力爱着这女孩 I love that girl with all of my might
还不错 It works.
这才是个唱片 Now that's a record.
-你喜欢 -是的 - you like that? - yeah.
沃尔特录了段音 放一下吧 Walter got a record. let's lay it down.
-是吗 -你要听吗 - oh, yeah? - you want to hear?
那你和吉米给他伴奏吧 Why don't you and jimmy back him up?
你运气不错 贝卢呢 You caught me on a good day. where's belo at?
第一次 Take one.
老大 这是你的新车吗 Boss, this your new shit?
是啊 喜欢吗 Yeah. you like it, huh?
-你来开吧 小杂种 -啥 - go park it, motherfucker. - what?
开回家吧 Park it at your house.
珍妮 看见了吗 Oh, jenny, you see this shit?
我要让那些家伙看看 Wait till these motherfuckers see me now.
-你是我白老爹 -你又发狂了 - you my white daddy? - you're getting carried away again.
老兄 黑人民谣歌手开着凯迪拉克 Man, oh, man. oh, boy. black folks riding around in cadillacs.
感觉我好像升天了 Feel like I died and gone to heaven.
沃尔特 这是威利·狄克森 他来写歌 Walter, this is willie dixon. he's gonna write some songs for us.
-你好 -我喜欢你吹的口琴 - how you doing? - I like what you do with that harp, man.
-我给你写了首情歌 -是吗 - wrote a killer song for you. - you did?
我知道小妞们为你发狂 叫"我的宝贝" I know how the girls love you so much. it's called my babe.
"我的宝贝" 在这呢 来吧 小妞 My babe? this is my babe right here. come on, girl.
列恩 我给玛迪也写了一首 Hey, len, I wrote a song for muddy, too.
是吗 玛迪还用不着帮 Oh, yeah? muddy don't need no help.
兄弟 我知道他不错 Oh, man. I admit he's good and everything,
可是他所有的歌听着都差不多 But, I mean, all his songs sound the damn same.
玛迪·沃尔特需要闪光点 Muddy waters needs something that shows him off.
那看你有什么本事吧 Well, we'll see what you got.
这是重复段 Here's your riff right there.
这也没什么 Ain't nothing to that.
在我出生前 Gypsy woman told my mother
一个吉普赛女人告诉我妈妈 Before I was born
你将会有个男孩 You got you a boy child coming...
玛迪现在今非昔比了 Now muddy was muddy way before I came along.
我只是将他的外表 I just took his persona
化成所有人都懂的语言 And put it in words that everybody could understand.
很简单 所有男人都想成为他 I mean, it was simple. he was the cat every man wanted to be
所有女人都想爱他 And every woman wanted to love.
而玛迪 And muddy,
在不断的成长 变成这个男人 Well, he just kept growing into that man.
人人都知道 Everybody knows I'm him
我是个大人物 Well, you know I'm the hoochie coochie man
人人都知道 Everybody knows I'm him
我有黑猫骨[招好运] I got a black cat bone
我也有毛九[一种护身魔力] I got a mojo, too
我有约翰尼·康可罗 I got the johnny conkeroo
我会与你厮混 I'm gonna mess with you
我会让姑娘们 I'm gonna make you girls
牵着我的手 Lead me by my hand
全世界将会知道 Then the world will know...
人们开始意识到如果你能弹吉他 People started realizing that if you can play the guitar
卖力唱歌 你将比超人都牛 And sing your ass off, you could be badder than superman.
这是50年代黑人男人的强烈的感受 And that was a strong feeling for a black man in the '50s.
你好吗 宝贝 How you doing, darling?
在第七个小时 On the seventh hour
在第七天 On the seventh day
在第七个月 On the seventh month
七个医生说 Seven doctors say
他是个幸运儿 He was born for good luck
你会看到 That you'll see
我有七百美金 I got seven hundred dollar
别惹我 Don't you mess with me
我正要放下它 老大 我好了 I'm about to lay this down right now, boss. I'm ready.
你弄得我都没情绪了 老大 You're messing up my groove, boss.
谁死了 Who dead?
你妈妈 Your mother.
你家里给一个 Your family called a deejay
新奥尔良的DJ打了个电话 down in new orleans.
他们一直在找你 They've been trying to find you.
你需要休息一下 Maybe you need to take a little time off.
我应该怎么做 老大 What am I supposed to do with that, boss?
回家把你母亲好好安葬 Go home and bury your mother.
沃尔特 Walter.
好了吗 Y'all ready?
妈的 Shit.
我本来正在状态 现在连个屁都没了 I was in my groove, man. now I can't even find my shit.
回家吧 没人想逼你回去录音 Go home. nobody's expecting you to go back in there.
我想 I'm expecting it.
你知道有多少吹口琴的 You know how many harp players out there
想灭了我吗 are waiting to chop my head?
没时间浪费在那女人身上 Not time to be wasting on this woman.
她可不是"那女人" 那是你妈妈 孩子 That ain't "that woman. " that's your mama, boy.
我知道我妈妈什么啊 What the hell I know about mamas?
我一出生她就让我爸把我送走 She let my daddy give me away the day I was born.
我想她已经尽力了 Well, she did the best she could, I reckon.
所以这才是我妈妈 That's why this here be my mama.
在这呢 This here, right here.
沃尔特 You know, walter.
我们不是每天 You and me not gonna wake up every morning
都随心所欲 and get everything we want.
通常我们要逆来顺受 Mostly we got to take what come.
还一半的时间 是一团糟 And half the time, that's gonna be a bunch of bullshit.
是啊 我得清醒清醒 Yeah. I just got to get my mind back right.
喝点吧 Go on and have you a taste.
不用 这玩意会搞垮我 I don't need that. that shit'll fuck me up.
-喝点吧 -这玩意会搞垮我 老兄 - go on, boy. - it's gonna fuck me up, man.
让你平静 Cool you out.
就尝尝 Just a taste, huh?
不管了 Fuck it.
我的宝贝 不要欺骗 我的宝贝 My baby don't stand no cheating, my babe
噢 是的 她不容许欺骗 我的宝贝 Oh, yeah, she don't stand no cheating my babe
噢 是的 她不容许欺骗 Oh, yeah, she don't stand no cheating
她无法忍受这午夜的偷情 She don't stand none of that midnight creeping
他这么拿麦克风我没法录 I can't record this if he handles the mike like that.
没事 Don't worry about it.
现在播放的是小沃尔特的"我的宝贝" We're playing little walter's my babe.
本周排行第一名 Number one on the charts this week.
小沃尔特扬名立万了 Little walter was making a name for himself.
每个黑人夜总会 Every club on the chitlin circuit
都想请这个坐凯迪拉克的精灵小子 Wanted that sharp, swinging jump boy in the cadillac.
看看 这可真是够耻辱的 Now, ain't that sure enough a goddamn shame?
-那是啥 -像小沃尔特一样的一流唱片歌手 - what is that? - a big-time recording artist like little walter
开着一辆不值钱的破车招摇 Driving around in that broken-down, no-account short.
-让我下去 -别去 - let me out. - hold on, son.
他干吗 What is he doing now?
"小沃尔特和混蛋点唱机" "little walter and the motherfucking jukes," huh?
放屁呢吧 Ain't this some shit?
说 你们他妈哪个是小沃尔特 Say, now, which one of you motherfuckers is little walter?
我就是 蠢材 I am, fool.
好吧 Okay.
你他妈过来 Bring your ass over here!
那杂种敢打老子名号赚钱 Motherfucker taking money out of my pocket.
又能怎样 他偷的一文不值 So what? he's stealing your gigs.
他偷了我的名字 He's stealing my name.
妈的 Shit.
我的宝贝 不要欺骗 我的宝贝 My baby don't stand no cheating, my babe
噢 是的 她不容许欺骗 我的宝贝 Oh, no, she don't stand no cheating my babe
噢 是的 她不容许欺骗 Oh, no, she don't stand no cheating
她做什么都那么开心 Everything she do she do so pleasing
我的宝贝 My baby...
1955年 我们被陷住了 It was 1955 and we was hooked.
被音乐 车 女人 生活陷住了 On the music, on the cars, on the women, on the life, baby.
上帝 我们很顺风又顺水 Oh, lord, we had hot hands!
她不容许愚弄 我的宝贝 She don't stand no fooling, my babe
噢 是的 她不容许愚弄 Oh, yeah, she don't stand no fooling
当她浑身发热 气氛就不会冷 When she's hot, there ain't no cooling
我的宝贝 亲亲小宝贝 我的宝贝 My babe, true little baby, my babe
-亲亲小宝贝 -她是我的宝贝 - true little baby - she's my baby
-亲亲小宝贝 -来吧 - true little baby - come on
-亲亲小宝贝 -很好 - true little baby - all right
亲亲小宝贝 True little baby
玛迪来见见沃尔夫 Hey, mud. I want you to meet wolf.
我听说你是我老乡 Yeah, I hear we're from the same place.
是吗 Is that right?
是的 沃尔夫刚签了合同 Yeah, wolf just signed with us.
欢迎来到"凯迪拉克"唱片公司 Yeah. welcome to cadillac records.
要是待这足够久 每人都会有一辆 You stay around long enough, everybody get one.
这破卡车 Well, this old truck,
是我拥有它 I own it.
不是它拥有我 It don't own me.
我先预支你100美金 Listen, I want to offer you a $100 advance.
我从不欠钱 I don't borrow against the store.
该给我的时候给我就行 You just pay me what you owe me.
那好吧 That's fair enough.
见到你们很高兴 Nice meeting y'all.
保重 宝贝 Take care of yourself, baby.
"不是它拥有我" "it don't own me. "
这杂种以为他他妈是约翰·韦恩呢 Motherfucker thinks he goddamn john wayne.
可他会唱歌 He can sing, though.
他最好会唱 要不钓不上辣妹 He gonna have to, because he ain't getting the women on style.
大人物有版税啥的吗 Any royalties come in from hoochie coochie man?
已经给你了 I already gave that to you.
咋给了 How you figure?
凯迪拉克可不是免费的 老玛 The cadillac ain't free, mud.
是啊 Right.
你要用钱吗 You need money?
吉内瓦想买个房子 Well, geneva want a house.
包在我身上吧 I'll take care of it.
好吧 All right.
漂亮女人们 All you pretty women
排好队 Stand in line
我会和你做爱 宝贝 I can make love to you, baby
用一小时的时间 In an hour's time
这多美妙 Ain't that amazing?
这孩子是哪来的 Where that baby come from?
今天来了个女人 A woman came by today.
她说这孩子是你的 She said she's yours.
她说她不能再照顾她了 She said she couldn't take care of her anymore.
我的孩子 That's my baby?
她得喝牛奶 She's gonna need milk.
我去拿牛奶 I'll go on and get the milk.
我是个男人 I'm a man
我迷住 I spell m...
这家让你置办的真好 吉内瓦 This here be a real nice home you're making, geneva.
谢谢 沃尔特 Thank you, walter.
因为你照顾得好 玛迪才能去征服世界 That's why muddy can go out there and fetch the world.
他梦想不小呢 He's got big dreams.
我来帮你 Here, let me help you.
-那儿 来吧 -那你呢 说嘛 - there, go ahead... - what about you, though? come on.
你有啥梦想 You ain't got no dreams, girl?
总要有人脚踏实地的做事 Somebody's got to have their feet firmly planted on the ground.
所以你脚踏实地是吗 That's you, huh? that's you?
要我说你也大胆做梦 Well, I say you take them off the ground.
照看这些孩子 Taking care of all these kids.
帮我收拾出地方休息 You know, you gone and made a place for me to lay my head.
过来 歇一会 Now, come here, now. stop for a minute.
歇一会 过来 跟我玩一会 过来 Stop for a minute, now. come here. play with me. come on.
过来 过来 Come on. come on.
坐下 过来 Have a seat. come on.
别干了 喝点酒 Kick your feet up now. here go your drink.
还不错吧 It's nice, right?
谁来照顾你 Who be taking care of you?
我看你忙着照顾大家 I see you running around here taking care of everybody.
谁来照顾吉内瓦 Who take care of geneva?
-沃尔特 -怎么了 - walter. - what? what?
-我是玛迪的女人 -他有那么多女人呢 - I'm muddy's woman. - he got a lot of women.
他可以分我一个 对不 He can spare one, huh?
对不起 我知道 I'm sorry. I know.
我知道我是个混蛋 我知道 I know I'm a motherfucker. I know.
你不明白 我控制不了 我想 You got no idea. I can't help myself. I want to...
我只想让你开心 吉内瓦 你知道吗 I just want to see you happy, geneva. you know?
我会让你开心的 宝贝 Let me make you happy, baby.
我爱他 I love him.
你不懂 You have no idea
他曾经对我那么好 How good that man has been to me.
我不是个完整的女人 沃尔特 I'm half a woman, walter.
我不能再生孩子了 I can't have any more babies.
我不能给生玛迪他自己的孩子 I can't give muddy any children of his own.
-别哭了 宝贝 -不 - don't cry, baby. don't cry. - no.
别再跟我提他任何一个女人 Don't ever talk to me about any of his other women.
永远别提 Ever.
好 Okay.
吉内瓦 Hey, geneva.
嗨 宝贝 Hey, baby.
你饿了吧 我给你弄点吃的 You must be hungry. let me make you something to eat.
好啊 Yeah.
沃特 你不饿吗 Walt, you ain't hungry?
他不饿 He ain't hungry.
你不饿吗 You ain't hungry?
你什么都没吃 不饿吗 You ain't eat nothing. what, you ain't hungry?
-小子 -玛迪 - son? - muddy.
你不饿吗 小子 You ain't hungry? son?
-玛迪 他还是个孩子 -你最好识相点 - muddy, he's just a kid! - you better know I know it.
要不我他妈就拿绳子勒死你 小子 I'll put a motherfucking lacing on you, boy.
你最好去哪睡一觉忘了这些 听见了吗 Now, you better go on somewhere and sleep it off. you hear me?
噢 烟窗发亮 Oh, smokestack lightning
很亮 Shining...
停 Cut.
弹吉他那个 你叫什么 You on the guitar, what's your name?
休伯特 先生 Hubert, sir.
"休伯特" "hubert"?
沃尔特 规矩点 Walter, behave yourself.
-那混蛋叫休伯特 -闭嘴 - motherfucker's name is hubert. - shut up.
你以为你是谁 声音那么大 Who do you think you are, playing that loud?
对 扩音器声音小点 不是吉他 扩音器 Yeah, lower the amp, not the guitar. the amp.
弄好它 休伯特 Get it right, hubert.
别再跟他说话了 Don't talk to him no more.
我是乐队老大 I'm the band leader.
我想你没跟乐队老大打过交道 Reckon you ain't never worked with one before.
你想做什么 问我 You want something done, you ask me.
我去告诉他该干什么 I'm gonna tell him what he has to be doing.
是吗 Is that right?
是的 That's right.
这是你唯一能做的 Only thing you can do.
-他是个杂种 -妈的 - That's a mean motherfucker right there. - shit.
把它弄好 Get it right.
-好了 大人物 -去拿衣服 - all right, big man. - go and get your coat.
好吧 Okay, then.
第二次 Take two.
宝贝 Hey, baby.
坐一会吧 Why don't you stay for a while?
最好别让你的妞掺和进来 Better get your girl out of the ring.
噢 烟窗发亮 Oh, smokestack lightning
没事 把她让给你了 宝贝 No, that's all right. you can have her, baby.
她主子在这呢 But she come with this.
-他听不见你 老玛 -我肯定他听得见 - he can't hear you, mud. - I guarantee you he hear me.
吉米 过来 Hey, jimmy, come here.
你去告诉休伯特 I want you to tell Hubert
我们付他沃尔夫两倍的薪水 we'll pay him twice what wolf's paying him.
如果他是个乐队老大 If he's such a band leader,
就要看看他能不能留住他的兄弟 We'll see if he's band leader enough to hold onto his boy.
他可真是个大灰狼 He was the big, bad wolf.
据说他从一个死人那里得到的名字 Now, the story is he got his name from a dead man
那死人从墓里爬出来 调他的吉他 Who came out the cemetery and tuned his guitar.
从那以后他就一直对着月亮嚎 And he been howling at the moon ever since.
噢 停下你的火车 Oh, stop your train
让这穷小子坐上去 Let a poor boy ride
你没听见我在嘶吼吗 Whoa, don't you hear me crying?
-你没事吧 -你就不能买套小点的 - you all right? - couldn't you get a smaller set?
-你没事吧 -快点 哥们 - you all right? - hurry up, man.
-我可不想错过比赛 -宝贝 - I don't want to miss this game, now. - oh, baby!
我超爱这房子 I love this house.
-送你了 -不好意思 吉米 - you got it. - sorry, jimmy.
你们不能进来 Y'all can't come in here.
我是恰克·贝利 I'm chuck berry.
恰克·贝利是乡村音乐歌手 Chuck berry's a country-and-western singer.
是吗 Is he?
你知道他还是谁吗 是我 You know who else he is? he's me.
他说他是恰克·贝利 Says he's chuck berry.
出示一下证件 Let me see some id.
那好吧 All right, then.
证件 Id.
证件上写着你是印第安人 This license says you're indian.
墙上那海报看着可是白人 That pinup make you look like a white man.
-你到底是谁 -我是个音乐家 - what the hell are you? - I'm a musician.
我叫恰克·贝利 And my name is chuck berry.
要是今晚能在你这好场子演出的话 And I can be whatever you need me to be
你说我是谁都可以 To play in your fine establishment this evening.
你还是个骗子吧 You part con man, too?
不是 No.
你可以唱乡村音乐 You may sing country.
但不是在这 You ain't doing it here.
-走吧 -祝你们今晚开心 - get on, now. - you gentlemen have a fine evening.
证件 Id.
你的门怎么了 What happened to your doors?
天热 我把它们拆了 It was hot, so I took them off.
没事 走吧 宝贝 It's all right. come on, baby.
-来吧 小妞 -谢谢 - come on, girl. - thank you.
我看下你证件 Let me see your license.
好吧 好吧 给你 看看吧 Okay. okay. here, you take a look at this here.
我正要给它上蜡呢 行了吧 I'm about to go wax this record, okay?
你给我回来 黑鬼 Get your ass back over here, nigger.
你正看我的证件呢吧 Now, you looking at my license, huh?
你知道 You guys know that
"黑鬼"不是我妈取的名字吧 "nigger" ain't the name my mama gave me, now.
见谅 不好意思 Oh, pardon. I'm sorry.
这些杂种不认识字 These motherfuckers can't read.
好吧 我帮你 你得说出这名字来 Okay. let me help you out. you got to sound that shit out.
说啊 Come on.
"沃尔特" "walter. "
老玛 警察抓了沃尔特 Mud! the cops got walter!
-嘿 别这样 -黑鬼 - hey, take it easy! - nigger.
别这样 他在这工作 Come on. he works here.
-他在这工作 别打了 -怎么样 黑鬼 - he works here. take it easy. - this here nigger?
-你现在觉得自己是黑鬼了吧 -给你 - you feel like a nigger yet? - hey! look.
-给你 别打了 -看见了吗 - look. please. - you see that?
看见没 我是切斯家族的 Do you see that? I belong to the chess family.
-杂种 -嘿 - motherfucker! - hey!
你得买辆新车了 黑鬼 You're gonna need a new car, nigger.
我一直在跟这杂种说呢 That's what I've been telling this motherfucker.
闭嘴吧 你能停会吗 还敢和警察叫板吗 Shut up, shut up. would you stop? are you fucking with cops now?
他妈的 God damn it.
你怎么回事 What's the matter with you?
-你没事吧 -妈的 - are you all right, man? - damn it.
反正我怎么都不好看 I had no business being that pretty anyway.
我需要辆新车 列恩 It looks like I need a new car, len.
我给你新车了 你居然把门拆了 I gave you a new car. you rip the fucking doors off it?
这可不是我的问题 It's not my problem!
我给了你排行榜第一的唱片 列恩 I gave you a number-one record, len.
是我给了你做第一名的机会 I gave you a chance to make a number-one fucking record.
你给了小黑鬼一个机会 是吗 Oh, you gave the little nigger a chance, huh?
小黑鬼不要机会 Little nigger don't need no chance!
我会吹口琴 混蛋 I can play, motherfucker!
我他妈是口琴之王 I'm fucking king on this shit!
你以为我会开枪是吗 You think I'm gonna shoot you?
-歇会吧 -不 我要新车 - get some rest. - no, I need a new car.
够了 回去喝你的"可乐" 吧 小子 Enough! what you need to do is get back to the pepsi-cola, boy.
我告诉你 "酒精"不适合你 Let me tell you, that liquor ain't for you.
你要干嘛 老玛 你要打我吗 What you gonna do, mud? you gonna hit me, mud?
要掐死我吗 在大街上 You gonna choke me now? on the street?
别碰我 Get off me.
知道不 You know,
那个沃尔夫 That Wolf,
他会为他的人出头 The way he stood up for his sideman,
或许你该学学 老玛 Maybe he could teach you something, Mud.
艾斯特 我们走 Esther, come on!
再找个口琴手吧 Find yourself another harp player.
宝贝 你可知道 我永不知足 Well, baby, you know I can never be satisfied
我禁不住大声嘶吼 And I just can't keep from crying
大声点 哥们 Lay it on, man.
女士们先生们 他是吉他手休伯特·萨姆林 Hubert Sumlin, ladies and gentlemen.
-小姐 你想干吗 -告诉帕特我不会走的 - What you want, miss? - Tell Pot that I ain't leaving.
帕特 你马子说她不走 Pot! your girl said she ain't leaving.
我告诉你了 我到家前 把你东西统统搬走 I want your things out of my room when I get home. I told you.
畜生 想这么轻易就把我甩了吗 You thought you could drop me like this, boy?
休想躲过上帝之眼 You can't hide from the eye of god.
今晚他要大开杀戒 He's hunting heads tonight.
玛迪 我不干了 Muddy, I don't think I want to be in your band no more.
你再敢挖走他 You steal him from me again,
我就杀了你 I'll kill you.
他告诉你我不干了吗 He tell you I quit?
他说没有你 他无法呼吸 He said he felt like somebody took away his oxygen.
沃尔特 Walter.
你们是一家人 You're family.
你没必要这么做 You don't have to do this.
我会想你的 I'm gonna miss you.
当你失去一位能奏出 When you lose that cat that...
独一无二音感的拍档时 ... gave you that sound that nobody else could,
是件伤感的事 It hurts.
比失去女人还要伤感 Hurts more than losing your woman.
拉他入伙 你真有一套 It's good you brought him in.
我说得没错吧 哥们 See what I was telling you, baby?
他有点与众不同 He's different.
怎么说呢 列恩 我觉得他有点乡村 I don't know, Len. he sound a little country to me.
或许该让他加点蓝调 Maybe we blues him up just a little bit.
威利 Willie.
我不想你给它加蓝调 这并非蓝调 I don't want you to blues this up. this ain't the blues.
不清楚这妈的是啥 可还是决定给它灌唱片 I don't know what the fuck it is, but we're gonna record it.
-就这么定了 哥们 -太棒了 - There you go, baby. - Yeah.
喂 叫你呢 Hey. hey there, girl.
告诉切斯 Tell Chess
我要辆新车 I need a new car.
我不喜欢这车的颜色 This ain't the right color.
这个的确与众不同 You got something real special.
谢谢 弗里德先生 谢谢 Thank you, Mr. Freed. thank you.
太感谢了 Thank you very much.
你觉得这个能播吗 Do you think you'll be able to play it?
如果我播的话 你出名他暴富 If I play it, I make you famous and him rich.
问题是 你有多想干成 The question is, how bad do you want it?
对不起 你是说 我出名他暴富是吗 I'm sorry. you said, me famous and him rich? yeah?
等等 等等 Well, hold on. one second. one second.
和你换位片刻 Let me switch sides with you for a moment.
恰克有点搞笑 Chuck's a bit of a comedian.
-真不错 -是啊 - Well, this is nice. - Yeah.
-真是太棒了 -凡事好商量 - This is very nice. - I'm sure we can work something out.
有些人叫它黑人音乐 Now, some of you people might call this race music.
我叫它摇滚 不管白人黑人 I call it rock and roll, and it's too fun for anybody to sit out on,
你都会迫不及待爱上它 White or colored.
-我猜他会这么说的 -没错 - Did he just say what I think he said? - Yeah.
全电台都在放这歌 He just integrated the airwaves.
-成功了 -成功了 妈的 我们成功了 - Here we are. - Here we are, motherfucker. here we are.
-偶滴神 -沃特斯 真得谢谢你 - Oh, god. - Mr. Waters, I am deeply grateful to you.
你的成果 哥们 You got it, baby.
蓝调榜单第1名 来自恰克·贝利的《美宝莲》 R&B best sellers no.1 Maybelline-Chuck Berry
流行榜单第5名 来自恰克·贝利的《美宝莲》 Pop charts no.5 Maybelline-Chuck Berry
芝加哥恰克·贝利之夜 Chicago Chuck Berry Tonight
开着跑车 Riding along in my automobile
迫不及待想告诉她我的感受 I was anxious to tell her the way I feel
我温柔真诚地对她说 So I told her softly and sincere
恰克在种族隔离城市开唱 Chuck was playing in segregated cities.
白人和有色人种只不过一细绳之隔 But there was just a thin rope to separate coloreds from whites.
种族隔离却说来话长 And a whole lot of history.
正是这个踏着鸭子舞步的乐手 And that's all it took to bring us all together,
让我们聚到了一起 One man duck-walking across stage.
妈的 Shit.
保持过道畅通 Please keep the aisles clear.
快回去 Get back over here.
保持过道畅通 Keep the aisles clear.
你为啥不那样唱呢 爸爸 Why don't you play like that, daddy?
-只有蓝调才这么轻快 -这是摇滚 - Ain't nothing but the blues sped up. - It's rock and roll.
快看那车 Look at that car!
列恩·切斯有两辆这么酷的车 Len Chess got two hot cars.
-你好 玛迪 -你好 查尔斯 Hey, Muddy. hey, Charles.
我们上了美国露天音乐台 不可思议吧 We're on American Bandstand. you believe this?
-就是他啊 -恰克·贝利 - There's the man. - Chuck Berry!
-这就是那小子啊 -是的 他叫查尔斯 - Hey, is this the boy? - Yeah, his name is Charles.
停外面的是你的车吗 That's your car outside?
那辆桃红色的吗 The cherry-red one out there?
那是我见过最漂亮的车 It's the most beautiful thing I've ever seen.
是吗 品味不错 Ain't it? good taste.
-坐吧 查理 -恰克·贝利 - Sit down, Charles. have a seat. - Chuck Berry.
-查尔斯 -恰克 - Charles, Charles. - Chuck.
还贷款和赡养子女快把我搞死了 Mortgage payment and child support killing me.
订俱乐部的钱也不够了 And I ain't booking the clubs enough.
列恩 我问过会计 Len, I was talking to the accountant,
他说我版税预支了 And he been telling me I'm borrowing against my royalties.
列恩 老玛 节目快到了 你们要错过了 Len, Mud, it's coming. you're gonna miss it.
好的 就来 Yeah. in a minute.
怎么回事 我还以为有报酬的 What's going on? I thought I was just getting paid.
你的唱片滞销了 Records ain't selling.
你是不是用钱买了那辆凯迪拉克 Is that how come you got a brand-new cadillac in the driveway?
凯迪拉克是靠他买的 He bought me that cadillac.
你和我 公司所有人花的钱 Me, you and every other motherfucker
都是沾他的光 Cashes a chess records check is riding that man's coattails.
那样不好吗 And that ain't good.
谢了 Thank you.
我的字典里 你依旧是最棒的 In my book, you're still number one.
你也是 哥们 You, too, baby.
老爸 快来看啊 Hey, dad, you got to see this.
他们拘捕我们善良的妇女 They were locking up fine black women...
只因她们坐了公车 For sitting on buses,
他们吊死我们可怜的孩子 Stringing up our little bitty boys...
只因他们向白种女人吹口哨 For whistling at white women.
恰克对此并不理会 Not paying any mind at all to old Chuck,
他开创了 Who was reaping up their firstborn...
摇滚乐的先河 Wth this thing called rock and roll.
仅限白人 Whites only
他有3000美元 却像流浪汉一样就餐 $3,000 in his pocket and he'd be eating like a hobo.
他宁愿这样 也不愿给白鬼1美元 But he'd do that before he'd give them crackers one damn dollar.
恰克宁愿睡在车里 Chuck'd rather sleep in his own car
也不愿给种族隔离旅馆1美分 Than to give his money to one of them segregated hotels.
他头年存了10万美元 The man saved $100,000 the first year.
他不喝不赌 Now, he didn't drink, and, no, he didn't gamble.
惟好美色 He only had one particular vice.
-女士们 晚上好 -你是恰克·贝利吧 - Good evening, ladies. - You're him, aren't you?
找他有何贵干 Well, what "him" are you looking for?
你知道的 You know.
你咋知道我要啥 How do you know I know?
我啥都知道 I know everything.
不介意进来切磋切磋吧 Would you mind coming to teach me what you know?
全套服务 包你一爽到底 I'll teach you everything.
此时 恰克在探索男性的奥秘 Now, Chuck wasn't the only one looking for female talent.
列恩也在物色才女 Len was on a girl-hunt, too.
她来了 Here she is.
很高兴你赶来了 Glad you could make it.
来杯喝的怎样 I can get you a drink...
什么 你让我此时此地开唱吗 What, you want me to just do it right here? right now?
我明天要离开这了 Well, I am leaving town tomorrow.
宝贝 在他面前你不必害羞 Yeah, baby, you don't have to be shy with him.
我可没害羞 白痴 I ain't shy, fool.
别这么盯着我 好像我没穿似的 Don't be looking at me like I ain't wearing no drawers!
如果没心情就很难唱 It's just hard to do if you ain't in the mood.
此刻我没心情 And I ain't in the mood.
她没心情唱 She ain't in the mood.
拜托 Come on.
你不是说她很棒的吗 I thought you said this broad was good.
我听见 I heard
教堂钟声响起 Church bells ring
我听见 I heard
唱诗班在吟唱 A choir singing
我看见我的爱人 I saw my love
踩上红地毯 Walk down the aisle
把戒指 On her finger
戴在她手上 He placed the ring
他要找的是 He was looking for a woman
同样唱功十足的女歌手 that could go head-to-head with his men.
他终于找到了 And he found her.
她就是艾塔·詹姆斯 Miss Etta James.
-好啊 老玛 -找到啦 哥们 - Hey, Mud. - You got it, baby.
你啥时候再进去录音啊 When do I get you back in here?
没听说吗 我的唱片滞销了 You ain't heard? my records ain't selling.
会卖出去的 哥们 You're always gonna sell, baby.
停 Cut.
那甜心进展得如何 What's going on with sweet baby girl there?
甜心 Sweet?
滚你的 伦纳德 你到底懂不懂蓝调 Fuck you, Leonard. what the hell you know about the blues?
我怎么唱你才满意 你行你就自己唱 I gave you a damn good track. you want it? you sing it.
她要我自己唱 好啊 回家吧 Now she want me to sing it. fine, go home.
就这样 大家回家吧 到此结束 Forget it. everybody go home. that's a wrap.
笑什么笑 What are you smiling about?
我的错 那歌你唱不了 你不够女人 My mistake. you ain't woman enough for that song.
-我女人味十足 -是吗 - I'm plenty woman. - Oh, yeah?
这是关于爱的 你懂吗 It's about being in love. you know what that is?
-我懂爱 -是吗 - I know about love. - Yeah?
哪个杂种把你甩啦 Motherfucker ever walk out on you?
那杂种他妈的不仅甩了你 Fucking not only did he walk out on you,
还搭上了另外一个女的 He's taking the other broad down the aisle.
知道那啥感觉吗 宝贝 You know what that feels like, baby?
再来一次 Give me another one.
听见了吧 她想再来一次 You heard her. she wants another one.
第15次试音 Take 15.
我听见 I heard
教堂钟声响起 Church bells ring
我听见 I heard
唱诗班在吟唱 A choir singing
我看见我的爱人 I saw my love
踩上红地毯 Walk down the aisle
把戒指 On her finger
戴在她手上 He placed a ring
我看见他们 Oh, I saw them
手牵着手 Holding hands
她和我的爱人 She was standing there
比肩而立 With my man
我听见他们海誓山盟 I heard them promise
白头偕老 Till death do us part
字字句句 Each word
伤透我心 Was a pain in my heart
唯一能做的 Oh, all I could do
唯一能做的就是哭泣 All I could do was cry
唯一能做的 All I could do
就是哭泣 Was cry
渐渐失去 I was losing
心爱之人 The man that I loved
唯一能做的 And all I could do
就是哭泣 Was cry
此时此刻 And now
婚礼已毕 The wedding is over
祝福撒过 The rice, rice has been thrown
他们头顶 Over their heads
对于他们 For them life
生活伊始 Has just begun
对于我 But mine
世界末日 Is ending
桌球玩得不错啊 You play a mean game of pool.
如果勾起你惨痛回忆的话 对不起 Listen, if I brought up bad memories, I'm sorry.
一切为了录好你的歌 But it was good for the song.
唱片一出 旧男友准回心转意 This album comes out, that old boyfriend will come running.
我可不是为男友而哭的 I wasn't crying over no boyfriend.
是吗 Oh, no?
女友吗 Girlfriend?
你桌球玩得这么好 从哪学的 How'd you learn to play pool so good?
我父亲那里 My daddy.
-来杯威士忌好吗 -当然可以 - Can I get a whiskey? - Sure thing, boss.
不错 That's good.
他没时间教你点小孩的把戏吗 Hard to find time to teach you kids things.
他教个屁 我自学的 He ain't teach me shit. I taught myself.
和他见面时 不想脸上无光 I don't want to embarrass him when we meet.
恐怕该尴尬的是你父亲吧 Tell you who's gonna be embarrassed is your old man.
因为他要见的是超级巨星 明白吗 Because he's gonna meet a goddamn superstar, you know?
他算哪根葱 And what is he?
啥都不是 A nobody. now,
不想让你难堪 可是 I don't want to embarrass you, but...
我会让你好好瞧瞧的 Let me show you how it's done.
你真是大错特错了 You're batting a thousand on being wrong.
看到墙上那幅照片了没 You see that picture over there?
什么 明尼苏达肥佬是你父亲 What, Minnesota Fats is your father?
说来话长 That's the story.
你该请他来录音棚做做客 You ought to have him come by the studio.
我从没见过他 I ain't never even met that motherfucker.
如果到时见面的话 我要选在高档餐厅 But when I do, I want it to be in a fancy restaurant
人人都要我的照片 Where everybody wants my picture
人人都要我的签名 And asking me for my autograph.
-那是梦想吗 -对 我的梦想 - That's the dream, huh? - That's my dream.
并非梦想 It's not a dream.
你会出名的 You're gonna cross over.
-是吗 -我保证 - You think? - Promise.
这保证包括那高档餐厅吗 You gonna promise me that fancy restaurant, too?
我保证 Promise.
一所能让我的白人老爹 The one that's gonna serve the white man
跟他的黑人闺女共餐的餐厅吗 And his colored daughter.
别这样 Hey, come on.
你虽唱蓝调 但却不必靠它生存 You sing the blues. you don't have to live them.
你懂啥 白种男 What the fuck do you know, white boy?
你唱得的确很棒 Yeah, you play that hard act real good.
但我会注视着你 But I see you.
会注视着你 I see you.
列恩以为有钱能使鬼推磨 Old Len thought his checkbook can fix anything,
所以他为艾塔买下了餐厅 So he bought out the restaurant for Etta.
可有些东西是钱无法解决的 But there's some things money can't fix.
我帮不了你 孩子 I can't help you, kid.
我要琴酒 给我来瓶琴酒好吗 Gin. can I have a bottle of gin?
给我来瓶琴酒 I need a bottle of gin.
琴酒 给我来瓶琴酒 Gin, please. can I have a bottle of gin?
琴酒 妈的给我来瓶琴酒 Gin! can I get a fucking bottle of gin?
-来瓶琴酒 -马上到 先生 - Come on. bottle of gin. - Right away, sir.
只有和他一样 才能给我琴酒是吧 I guess I got to be him to get some gin?
-他和你说什么了 -白痴 - What'd he say to you? - Stupid shit.
他压根没问下次是否还能见到我 He didn't even ask if he could see me again.
这是他的问题 你干吗当是自己的错 That's his problem. why you making it yours?
先生 您的酒 Here you go, sir.
你又不清楚是什么问题 亲爱的 You wouldn't even begin to know my problems, baby.
说来听听吧 Let me.
我妈妈是妓女 My mother was a whore.
那狗杂种就看着我的脸说 And that fat motherfucker just looked me in my face,
他觉得我不像他 And he didn't see himself.
他觉得我不是他的女儿 He didn't see his little girl.
你知道他看到什么了吗 You know what he saw?
他所看到的 He saw the cum stains...
尽是和我妈搞过的臭男人 Of all the other men my mother fucked.
一群色欲冲天的骗子和 These chanda-fucking-liers and...
一群披着羊皮的狼 These white tablecloths don't mean shit!
我不够资格做他的女儿 I ain't gonna ever be good enough for him.
我离开餐厅后 他们准把杯子砸了 You know they're gonna break this when I leave, right?
我操 我帮你们砸 Fuck it! I'll do it for you!
别这样宝贝 听我说 Come on, honey. listen to me.
你该学着放开 You can't let that in.
知道吗 比如玛迪 You know, Muddy,
他唱片滞销 无法过活 He sings that hurt. he don't live it.
照顾不到家庭 He don't nurse it.
沃尔特 像个孩子一样 Walter, he carries it around like a baby.
喝酒赌博 Feeds it on whiskey and smack.
你该放开了 You got to let it go.
我做不到 I can't.
不 Oh, no.
我不吃这一套 No, I'm not having it.
那是我的歌 That's my song.
-不 亲爱的 -不 不 亲爱的 那是 - No, darling. - No, no, darling. that's...
那是我的歌 That's my song.
不 亲爱的 那是海滨少年的歌 No, darling. that's the beach boys.
这首歌叫《芳龄16岁》 每个音符 That is Sweet Sixteen, note for note.
每个音符都一模一样 Note for note. not one change.
除了歌词不同之外 关于新的 Aside, apart from the lyrics, about the new...
风靡白人男女之间的 The new craze sweeping the nation...
狂热运动 海上冲浪 For young white boys and girls, surfing.
我给他们提供了声带 自己却还蒙在鼓里 I've provided them the soundtrack, unbeknownst to myself.
-恰克 准备好了吗 -是的 准备好了 - Chuck, you ready? - Yes, I'm ready.
准备好为海滩少年写更多的歌 I'm very ready to make more songs for the beach boys and...
然后让那帮白人盗用 All other manner of white folks to steal.
是的 准备好了 还充分地很呢 Yes, I'm ready. I'm quite ready.
-说曹操 曹操就到 -得和你谈谈 - You say the devil's name, he appears. - We need to talk.
是啊 我们是得好好谈谈 Yeah, we do need to talk.
你听过了没 You heard this?
知道是怎么回事吗 You know what's going on?
知道发生啥什么事了吗 Do you know what's going on?
我接受不了 I'm not laying down for this, man.
首先是艾伦·弗里德的《美宝莲》排第三 咋回事 First, Alan Freed gets a third of Maybelline. for what?
恰克 听我说 Chuck, listen.
不 你先听我说 这首歌有他的份吗 No. you listen to me. did he write one part of the song?
-他有写过半句歌词吗 -他让我们走红的 - One part of the song? - Alan Freed put us on the map.
所以你就给他特权 So this gives him the license to...
你私带未成年白人少女过州界了吗 Did you take an underage white girl across state lines?
我没和你谈女人 发生啥事了 I'm not talking about girls. what's going on?
-别动粗口 别说话 -你好 警官 - Don't say shit. don't say anything. - Hello, officers.
有什么事吗 Is there a problem?
贝利先生 我们以走私未成年女过界 Mr. Berry, you are under arrest for transporting a minor across
逼迫卖淫罪拘捕你 State lines for the purpose of prostitution.
我 我没碰过 I didn't, I didn't touch...
首先 我没走私过任何人到任何地方 First of all, I didn't transport anyone anywhere.
我也没逼良为娼 I didn't solicit anything.
首先 And first of all...
好吧 先生们 首先 想让你们知道 Ok, gentlemen. first of all, I'll have you know that
我的挚友杰里·李·刘易 My very good dear friend Mr. Jerry Lee Lewis
-他有个13岁的妻子 -闭嘴 - Has a 13-year-old wife. - Keep your mouth shut.
经过他家的话能停会儿吗 Are we stopping by his home on the way?
艾米特·提尔因向白种女吹口哨被谋杀了 Emmett Till gets murdered for whistling at a white woman.
抓了我 你们肯定乐翻了 I know you're pleased to get Chuck Berry.
帮我搞定 伦纳德 Fix this, Leonard.
别逗我了 痞子 Hey, you guys got to be kidding me, man.
你们从哪来的 Where are you from?
今早做的头发吗 Hey, you set that hair in the morning?
没保镖 你们是不该来这儿的 You ladies shouldn't be out here without an escort.
一帮来自英国的歌手 开始玩我们的音乐 A bunch of English boys started playing our music.
虽然这种音乐起源于美国 Now, it was made in America,
可我猜没人当我们是美国人 But I guess nobody thought we were Americans.
我来帮你拿吧 朋友 Hey, let me help you with that, fellow.
-偶滴神啊 -怎么了 - Fucking hell. - What?
是他 就是他 It's him, it's him...
沃特斯先生 Mr. Waters.
我们是您忠实的粉丝 We're big fans.
只因崇拜你 我们才组到了一起 You're the reason we got together.
我们组了个乐队 以您的一首歌命名 We named our band after one of your songs.
-是吗 -滚石乐队 - Yeah? - Rolling Stone.
好吧 All right.
进来吧 让警察滚犊子去吧 Go on in there. fuck them police.
诸如 滚石 披头士 佛利伍麦克 Everybody knows the Rolling Stones, the Beatles, Fleetwood Mac,
齐柏林飞艇 埃里克·克莱普顿 大名总听过吧 Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton. everybody know their names, right?
骨瘦如柴的家伙 Skinny motherfuckers.
滚石乐队翻唱老玛迪·沃特斯的歌 The Rolling Stones are burning up the charts
掀起金曲狂潮 With an old Muddy Waters standard.
把恰克百分之十的版税转给玛迪 Take 10% of Chuck's royalties and move them to Muddy.
快去办吧 Go on and do it.
恰克不会有意见的 Chuck ain't gonna miss it.
贝利锒铛入狱 切斯公司状态低迷 The goose that laid the golden egg was locked up.
列恩重新起用了包括沃尔特在内的老字号 So Len brought in the old standbys, including Little Walter.
为一曲成名切斯绞尽脑汁 Chess was desperate for a hit.
小美眉 你归谁所有啊 Oh, hey, little girl, now. who you belong to, huh?
-不介意我和他聊几句吧 -聊吧 小女人 - You mind if I watch? - Go ahead, baby girl.
-我听你的音乐长大的 -是吗 - I grew up on y'all's music. - Watch?
你过来 Come over here.
我教你怎么吹 宝贝 I'll teach you to blow, baby.
别理他 他可没指吹口琴 Better watch it, baby girl. he ain't talking about that harp.
玛迪 你个白痴 Muddy, you're a fool.
你稍自大点我还是无所谓的 I wouldn't mind a little bit of what you flying on.
想超过我 你还早着呢 You too pretty to be flying my way, now.
用不着那扩音器 沃尔特 You don't need that amp, Walter.
那他们咋听得见我演奏 How they gonna hear me?
每个人的唱片都被退回了 Hey, everybody's records are getting sent back.
要想生存 就得来点创意 You want to survive, do something different.
来吧 一起演奏 Come on, play along.
来点创意 去他妈的 Something different? fuck it.
什么 What?
老玛 你怎么看 Mud, what you think about this?
你怎么看 老玛 What you think about this, Mud?
我们得出这张唱片 I think we need to lay this record.
什么 我只是个伴奏了吗 What, I'm just a sideman now?
好吧 我来伴奏 列恩 我来伴奏 Okay, I'll do it, Len. I'll do it.
我和你们这些混蛋一样落魄 I'm broke as the rest of you motherfuckers in here, so, you know?
给我来瓶姜酒行吗 I'm gonna need a bottle of gin, though.
我需要瓶姜酒 I'm gonna need a bottle of gin, baby.
趁着还没砸锅 先来一杯 Because I like a taste before getting fucked.
谁给沃尔特来瓶酒 Somebody taking care of Walter?
没错 照顾我一下 That's right. take care of me, baby.
终于 At last
心上人回到身边 My love has come along
孤独终于不再 My lonely days are over
生活就是一首歌 And life is like a song
终于 At last
苍穹之上有蓝天 The skies above are blue
我心中一片悠然 My heart was wrapped up in clover
看着你的夜晚 The night I looked at you
我做了一个梦 I found a dream
属于自己的梦 That I could speak to
做了一个梦 A dream that i
属于自己的梦 Can call my own
终于找到了 I found a thrill
可以亲吻的脸颊 To press my cheek to
前所未有的 A thrill that i
悸动 Have never known
当你微笑 When you smiled
微笑 You smiled
就像施展魔法 Oh, and then the spell was cast
你我一起 And here we are in heaven
到达天堂 For you are mine
终于 At last
-谢谢 -别客气 - thanks, baby. - you got it.
-勒维塔 结婚周年快乐 -谢谢 - happy anniversary, revetta. - thank you.
-准备去哪里庆祝 -赶紧滚开 - where you taking her, peppers? - get out of here.
电台刚才来电 艾塔又没去播音 WVJN just called. Etta missed her airtime again.
该死 这周三次了 这辣货 我要 God damn, it's the third time this week. this broad, I'm gonna...
抱歉宝贝 我必须去看看 I'm sorry, babe. I got to go figure out what's going on here.
别担心 我去看看她 Don't worry about it. I'll go look in on her.
这不是你的工作 老玛 That ain't your job, mud.
切斯 Chess.
好好玩 Go on and enjoy yourself.
醒醒 快醒醒 看着我 Now, wake up, girl. wake up. look here, wake up!
你怎么 怎么 What the... what... what you...
起来 站起来 Come here. stand up.
起来 活见鬼 快起来 Get up, god damn it, come on.
-站好了 -嗨 宝贝 - stand up. get up. - hey, baby.
-振作点 -你来看我吗 - come on, now. - you came to see me?
-他弄乱我的发型了 -我去叫医生 - he fucked up my hair. - I'm going to get a doctor.
别叫医生 No doctors.
那我叫吉内瓦 她会有办法的 Let me get geneva then. she knows what to do with this.
好 这样好 All right, that's good.
醒醒 宝贝 清醒点 Wake up. baby, come on, wake up.
清醒点 别闹了 Wake up, come on. it's not funny. come on.
这是我第一次用壁炉 This the first time I ever used this fireplace.
我应该弄点棉花糖来烤烤 Feel like I should be having marshmallows or something.
棉花糖和烂女人真他妈相配 Yeah, I'm sure marshmallows and smack go real well together.
家具都哪去了 What happened to the furniture?
还有车呢 Where's the car?
能卖的都被我老妈卖了 My mama sold what didn't get repossessed.
他们还会夺走我的房子 They gonna take my house.
好极了 Oh, that's good.
过来 Come on.
你把它过到我名下来 You got to put it in my name.
听到吗 你信得过我吗 把房子过到我名下 You hear me? you gonna trust me? put the house in my name.
什么 什么 What? what?
相信我 Trust me.
信赖我 Trust in me
我的所作所为 In all you do
听我说 Listen.
听着 我带你去诊所看看 Listen to me. I'm gonna get you in a clinic and get some help.
诊费我付 I'm gonna pay for it.
不是借给你 是送给你 It's not a loan. it's a gift.
你现在还送起礼物了 So, now you buying me gifts?
没错 Yeah, that's right.
我一定很特别吧 I must be real special.
我一定给你赚了不少钱 I must make you a lot of money.
当然了 Yeah, that must be it.
我不是笨蛋 I ain't stupid.
从恰克落魄后 我是你的生计 I'm your number-one bitch since chuck got busted.
-我只是想照顾你 -你想照顾我吗 - I'm trying to take care of you. - you gonna take care of me?
你以为我是谁啊 你的蠢老婆吗 Who the fuck you think you talking to, your tight-ass wife?
这话触犯禁忌了 That's off-limits.
我不需要臭男人照顾 I don't need no man to take care of me.
够坚强的 以为自己很好吗 So tough. you look so fucking good.
手上到处是针孔 with these track marks in your arm?
挺美的嘛 That's real good. well, that's good.
这样就能解决问题吗 yeah, that'll fix your problems, huh?
宝贝 别担心 Baby, don't worry.
艾塔不会伤害你 Etta ain't gonna hurt you.
手感真好 好舒服 谁给你买的 That feels nice. it feel real good. who bought you that?
是艾塔买的吧 谁给你买的车 Did Etta buy you that? I think she did. who bought you that car?
外面那辆车也很拉风 I think I got that nice car out there, too.
别担心 Don't worry.
-我会为你赚钱的 -别这样 停下 - I'll do it for you, baby. - come on. stop that.
你动动嘴 像其他的混蛋一样说"相信我" Just say, "trust in me," like all them other motherfuckers...
别闹 我不是索取 是提供帮助 Come on, I ain't taking from you! I'm offering.
去他妈的 我跟你说不通 God damn it, I don't know what the fuck to say to you.
我和那些臭拉皮条的不同 I'm not your fucking pimp.
-我们不是那种关系 -我们 - that's not us. - "us"?
我们算个鸟 What the fuck is "us"?
白男人和黑女人吗 A white man and a black girl?
我尝过苦头了 I been there.
我不会让你吃苦头 Yeah, but you ain't been here.
我不像你父亲 I'm not your father.
你也不是你母亲 And you ain't your mother.
我不会伤害你 And I ain't gonna hurt you.
我没理由伤害你 I got no reason to hurt you.
你根本不知道自己的魅力 You don't even know what you have.
我有什么魅力 What do I have?
你有当红的专辑 You got a hit record.
什么 What?
你红遍半边天了 宝贝 You're on top of the charts, baby.
红的发紫 You crossed over.
列恩 我出名了吗 Len, I crossed over?
我早说过 I told you.
吉内瓦是护士 Geneva a nurse.
你好 艾塔 Hello, etta.
你好 Hi.
你确定让吉内瓦留下吗 Are you sure you want Geneva to stay
还是让她跟我回家 Here or you want her to come home with me?
不是你想的那样 It's not what you think.
只是商业往来吗 Oh, this is just business?
-没错 -你就没那样抱过我 - that's right. - you never hold me like that.
只要你出名 和你上床都行 Cross over and I'll jump into bed with you.
你他妈的肯定立刻跳出来 I bet you'd jump out that motherfucker quick, too.
怎么了 What?
你知道沃尔特叫你白老爹 You know how Walter call you his white daddy,
因为每次他惹麻烦 Because every time he step in shit,
你都会收拾烂摊子 you there to get him out of trouble?
然后带他进录音室 夺走他的扩音器 And then you bring him in the studio and you take away his amp,
这恩情他一辈子还不完 The sound that took him his whole life to make up.
其他的混蛋给他机会 Any other motherfucker he'd have shot for that,
但为了你 他留下了 but he give it up for you.
你和那个孤苦无依的女孩说了什么 What you telling that little girl ain't got nobody in the world?
说你会照顾她 That you're gonna take care of her?
这句话你和多少个街头妓女说过 How many strung-out girls you told that to?
现在不是说我 是说你 I ain't talking about me.
说的是你和里面那个女的 I'm talking about you and the baby girl in there.
-如果我说对她有感觉呢 -狗屎 - what if I told you I had feelings for her? - bullshit.
我和她干了 还有恰克和你 I'm fucking her, I'm fucking chuck, and I'm fucking you. huh?
你是这么认为吗 That's what you think, huh?
你不就是这么想吗 老玛 Ain't that what you think, mud?
蓝调就这么回事 真他妈狗臭屁 Well, that's what the blues is, ain't it? a whole lot of fucking.
告诉吉内瓦 我走了 Tell Geneva I'm gone.
恰克巅峰时刻时 被关了起来 They locked Chuck up at the peak of his career.
他什么屁事都想不起 He couldn't record a damn thing.
-再见 -贝利先生 看这里 - goodbye. - Mr. Berry! Mr. Berry!
-什么事 -有人砸场子 - yeah? - somebody busted up your store.
什么 有人闯进去了吗 What? somebody broke in?
你最好来看看 You better come and see about it.
好 我马上去 Yeah, I'll be right down.
你是谁 Who is this?
列恩的世界悄然改变 Len's world was changing.
质疑他的并非只有玛迪 Not only was Muddy questioning him,
还有邻里街坊 But so were the folks in the neighborhood.
有色人种不再是有色人种 Colored folks who were told they weren't colored no more,
而是黑人 他们了解了自己的力量 but black, Who was told they had a power.
知道自己可以当家做主 They had the right to own their own businesses.
这个利用他们致富的白人算什么玩意 And who was this white man getting rich off of them?
你想在这类捣鬼吗 You want to fuck around back here?
芝加哥南部开始疯狂 The south side of chicago was getting mad.
从这里滚出去 Everybody could feel the change coming.
滚的远远的 Get on out of our neighborhood!
痴迷的歌迷再次疯狂 Screaming fans went nuts again
为猫王疯狂 for rock and roll star Elvis Presley.
猫王一如既往的帅气 向镜头致敬 Presley, handsome as ever, tipped his hat for the cameras.
看到了吗 女士们先生们 Well, there you have it, ladies and gentlemen,
新生的歌王 Your new king.
我要把你赢个精光 I'm about to win this money, baby.
运气不佳啊 Tough luck, boy.
-运气不好 -你输了 - tough luck? - you lose.
滚远点 混蛋 Back up, motherfucker.
你没赢钱的命 混球 No tough luck got this, motherfucker.
但我手里这东西 说我运气不错 Because this shit here says my luck is just fine.
你想干嘛 捅死我吗 What you gonna do, blow me to death?
狗屁 Shit.
沃尔特 Walter.
天啊 沃尔特 Okay. oh, jesus. Walter!
上帝啊 Oh, god.
你没来接我 妈妈 你没来接我 You ain't come and get me, mama. you didn't come and get me.
我等了你好久 I've been waiting for you for a long time.
我在这 I'm here.
我找到你了 I found you.
妈妈爱你 你要陪妈妈 Mama loves you. come on, stay with me.
-我要休息一下了 -振作点 - I just got to rest my eyes. - stay with me.
我想休息 I just got to rest my eyes.
不 不 振作点 No. no, stay with me.
等等 Wait a minute.
昨夜 Last night
我失去了最好的朋友 I lost the best friend I ever had
你走了 丢下我 Now you've gone and left me
我如此伤心难过 That make me feel so bad
谢谢 Thank you. thank you.
好吧 All right.
现在就看看能否 Well, we'll have to see if we can...
看能不能给他弄套新西装 If we can't get him a new suit.
再弄个蓝色内绒的棺木 Get him one of them boxes with the blue satin lining inside.
显得他修长 Have him look slick.
借用一下洗手间 I got to use the toilet.
-给你倒杯茶吧 -不用了 谢谢 - can I get you some tea? - no, thank you.
外面草坪挤满了蓝调歌手 You know, there's a whole line of bluesmen on your lawn,
等着你死 Waiting to see if you're dead.
不 他们来看是否欠我钱 Looking to see if they owe me money.
想的美 Yeah.
多贴心啊 你是第一个送我花的男人 Look at that. you're the first man ever gave me flowers.
-谢谢 -别告诉别人哦 - thank you. - yeah, well, don't tell nobody.
花很美 我插起来 They're beautiful. I'll put them in a vase.
你没事吧 You okay?
很好 谢谢 I'm good. thank you.
-老玛 -沃尔夫 - mud. - wolf.
狗屎 Shit.
我知道沃尔特很在乎你 I know Walter was into you for a whole lot,
但他走了有带走什么吗 But he got anything coming his way?
-那你知道他花光自己的钱 -话是没错 - you know how he spent his money. - yeah, I know it.
看看 Look here.
我名下有200美元 I got $200 to my name.
你必须支付沃尔特的葬礼费用 You're gonna have to help pay for Walter's funeral.
凭什么 Who said I wouldn't?
为什么他要付钱 他又不是沃尔特老爸 Why he got to pay for walter's funeral? he ain't Walter's daddy.
你是在和我说话吗 Is you and me talking?
沃尔特给他赚的钱还少吗 Walter put a lot of goddamn money in his billfold, that's why.
-只有我靠他赚钱吗 -似乎就是这样 - I'm the only motherfucker making money? - looks like it.
他就以此为生 That's the man's job,
用你们赚钱 你从密西西比来的 make money off of you. you from mississippi.
-早该习惯了 -你们私下拿了多少钱了 - you ought to know that. - how many caddies did y'all go through?
我就说白了 我没干过你 Let's get this straight. I didn't fuck you.
我没说你上了谁 I didn't say nothing about who fucked who.
你他妈话中带话 就这个意思 You insinuated that with your bullshit!
你才是到处买娼的混球 You was out with the fucking jewelry and the broads all the time.
你他妈又是圣人吗 And you was a motherfucking saint?
这里谁是圣人 Who here is a saint?
谁是 Who here?
-坐下 -不 勒维塔 你别管 - settle down. - no, Revetta, please.
你再胡搅蛮缠的要钱 If you act like a boy, keep asking for handouts,
他就会不客气了 He gonna treat you like one.
你又插什么嘴 混账东西 你有什么目的 Is you and me talking, motherfucker? what is you looking for?
我的目的是厚葬一个音乐家 I'm looking to help bury a fellow musician.
我说我会付钱 I said I'll pay for it!
没有老爹的感觉不错 Now, it feels good not to have a daddy.
尽管我不喜欢你 我不希望 And as much as I don't like you, I want you to feel good
你有那样的感觉 Like that, too.
是我害死了沃尔特 I killed Walter.
我害死他 我让你夺走他的扩音器 I killed him when I let you take away his amp.
我倒成了害虫了 I'm the motherfucker?
我成了害人精了吗 I'm the motherfucker?
都结束了 It was over,
包括音乐 切斯唱片 The music, Chess records.
大家都能感觉到 Everybody could feel it.
列恩及时抽身了 Len was getting out while he could.
现在背着我偷偷做事啦 So, working on something behind my back now, huh?
信任危机啊 What happened to "trust in me"?
我知道你在忙什么 I know what you've been doing.
-是吗 说说看 -你打算卖掉公司 - yeah, what? - you gonna sell the company.
我当初开始这一行 You know, back when I started this,
没人想我这样重用黑人 Nobody'd let a black man do what I got done.
我开启了新时代 Doors weren't open.
现在他们也分一杯羹 Now they are.
时代在进步 Time to move on.
大家会怀念你的 You gonna be missing out.
我当然知道 You don't think I know that?
所以你的意思是 So, you mean to tell me,
这可能是我最后一次为你唱歌 This could be the last time I sing a song for you?
最好拿出看家本领 Better make it good.
绝对无可取代 They don't get no better.
准备好了吗 Y'all ready?
我能看出 Something told me
曲终人散去 It was over
看着你和她 When I saw you and her
耳边私语 Talking
心里深处 Something deep down
灵魂呐喊 女孩 放声哭泣 In my soul said, "cry, girl"
-女孩 哭泣 -女孩 哭泣 - cry, girl - cry, girl
看着你和她 When I saw you and that girl
结伴而行 Walking around
我宁愿 宁愿选择漠视 I would rather, I would rather go blind, boy
也不愿看着你 离我而去 Than to see you walk away from me child, no
你可知道 我如此爱你 So you see, I love you so much
不忍眼看你离去 我的宝贝 That I don't want to watch you leave me, baby
但是 我又不愿 Most of all, I just don't
不愿先行离去 I just don't want to be free, no
我只能 只能 I was just, I was just
只能独自怀念 I was just sitting here thinking
你的亲吻 Of your kiss
你温暖的怀抱 And your warm embrace, yeah
捧起镜子 When the reflection in a glass
靠近双唇 That I held to my lips now, baby
脸上的泪珠 Revealed these tears
倾盆而下 That are on my face
我的宝贝 And, baby
我的宝贝 宝贝 我宁愿漠视 And, baby, baby, I'd rather be blind, boy
也不忍看你离去 Than to see you walk away
离我而去 Walk away from me, yeah
我的宝贝 宝贝 And, baby, baby, baby
我宁可漠视 I'd rather be blind, boy
也不忍看你 Than to see you walk away
看你离我而去 Walk away from me
我的宝贝 宝贝 And, baby, baby, baby
我宁可漠视 I'd rather be blind, boy
也不忍看着你 Than to see you walk away
离我而去 Walk away from me, yeah
切斯唱片让列恩牵缠挂肚 Chess records had a hold on Len.
让他依依不舍 It just wouldn't let him leave.
还没到拐角 他就心脏病发 He had a heart attack before he could turn the corner.
小女孩 有坏消息 Baby girl, I got some bad news for you.
切斯没有遗嘱 Chess ain't leave no will.
这就意味着一切财产 That means everything that belonged to him
都归妻子孩子 goes to the wife and children,
包括这间房子 Including this here house.
没关系 That's all right.
今天早上 一个男的送来这个 This morning, a man came by and gave me this.
什么 What's that?
是我房子的公文 It's the deed to my house.
说如果有什么意外 He said Len wanted me to have it
这个房子归我 in case something ever happened.
那个混蛋 That motherfucker.
他没时间留遗嘱 却还惦记我 He didn't have time to leave a will, but he had time to think of me?
他爱我 He loved me.
那个混蛋 That motherfucker.
你怎么样 威利 What do you say, Willie?
你怎么样 过得好吗 What do you say, there? how you doing?
还不错 你呢 I'm here. how you doing?
无可挑剔啊 有些好消息 Oh, I can't complain. got some good news.
还记得那几个英国歌手吗 Remember some of them english boys?
他们没忘记我们 在欧洲散播我们的歌曲 They didn't forget about us. been telling all europe about us.
希望我们能过去演唱 Want us to come over there and play.
我没那个闲钱坐飞机去英国 I ain't got no money to get on no plane to no England.
不需要钱 他们一手包办 You don't need no money. they're gonna pay for everything.
真的吗 You're serious?
我们要去英国啦 We're going to England.
我有一点点 I'm a little bit...
一点点紧张 A little bit nervous here.
紧张 紧张什么啊 Nervous? what you nervous about?
你一辈子都在演出 You've been performing your whole life.
但是没在这些人面前演出过 Yeah, but not... not for these folks over here.
我怎么能知道 他们想要什么 How am I supposed to know what they want?
我是机长 This is your captain speaking.
即将抵达希思罗机场 飞机开始下降 We are now beginning our descent into heathrow airport.
到啦 Here we go.
欢迎来到伦敦 希望你玩的开心 Welcome to London. I hope you enjoy your stay.
-没事吧 -没事 - you all right? - yeah.
-很高兴见到你 -沃特斯先生 - a pleasure to see you, mr. waters. - Mr. Waters!
观众渴望你 沃特斯先生 They want you, Mr. Waters. they want you.
我们起诉切斯唱片克扣版税 We sued Chess records for back royalties.
我们过的不错 And we did all right.
尤其是我 Well, especially me.
因为老玛 沃尔特和沃尔夫唱的歌 Because I wrote all those songs
都是我写的 that muddy, walter and wolf were singing.
我得到了报酬 I got paid.
现在还有报酬 And I'm still getting paid.
赚的钱够我买下这家录音室 I made enough money to buy this here studio.
以后会被拆毁 但是永留史册 They were going to tear it down, but I knew it was history.
我是男子汉 随你占上风 I'm a man don't matter if you got the upper hand
我们创作了有潜力的音乐 We made the kind of music that can grow into anything,
节奏蓝调 摇滚 嘻哈 Rhythm and blues, rock and roll, hip hop.
不管是什么类型的音乐 都有我们的功劳 Whatever you're playing, baby, we're right there with you.
散下蓝调的种子 Just sprinkle a little blues on it
就会长成参天大树 And it's gonna grow up to be big and bad.
我们就是播种能手 We the hoochie coochie seed.