The Ballad of Booth - Patrick Cassidy/Marcus Olson.mp3

[00:00.000] 作词 : Stephen Sondheim
[00:01.000] 作曲 : Stephen Sondheim
[00:06.684]VOICE
[00:06.941]Ladies and gentlemen, the President of the United States, Abraham Lincoln!
[00:12.687]
[00:13.185]BOOTH'S VOICE
[00:15.891]Sic semper tyrannis!...
[00:25.146]
[00:25.888]BALLADEER
[00:26.643]Someone tell the story,
[00:29.394]Someone sing the song.
[00:32.646]Every now and then
[00:33.886]The country
[00:35.641]Goes a little wrong.
[00:39.389]Every now and then
[00:40.388]A madman's
[00:43.141]Bound to come along.
[00:47.147]Doesn't stop the story --
[00:50.141]Story's pretty strong.
[00:54.390]Doesn't change the song...
[01:01.890]Johnny Booth was a handsome devil,
[01:04.896]Got up in his rings and fancy silks.
[01:08.392]Had him a temper but kept it level.
[01:11.387]Everybody called him Wilkes.
[01:15.393]Why did you do it, Johnny?
[01:18.388]Nobody agrees.
[01:20.396]You who had everything,
[01:22.139]What made you bring
[01:23.638]A nation to its knees?
[01:26.387]Some say it was your voice had gone,
[01:29.140]Some say it was booze.
[01:31.890]Some say you killed a country, John,
[01:33.886]Because of bad reviews.
[01:38.137]Johnny lived with a grace and glitter,
[01:40.887]Kinda like the lives he lived on stage.
[01:44.140]Died in a barn in pain and bitter,
[01:47.389]Twenty-seven years of age.
[01:51.395]Why did you do it, Johnny,
[01:54.137]Throw it all away?
[01:56.145]Why did you do it, boy,
[01:57.642]Not just destroy
[01:58.894]The pride and joy
[02:00.393]Of Illinois,
[02:02.888]But all the U.S.A.?
[02:05.896]You brother made you jealous, John,
[02:08.392]You couldn't fill his shoes.
[02:11.146]Was that the reason, tell us, John --
[02:13.894]Along with bad reviews?
[02:16.637]
[02:26.025]BOOTH
[02:27.277]Damn!
[02:28.029]HEROLD
[02:28.275]They're coming! They'll be here any minute --
[02:30.284]BOOTH
[02:30.530]I need your help. I've got to write this and I can't hold the pen!
[02:33.280]HEROLD
[02:33.525]Johnny, they've found us! We've got to get out of here!
[02:35.533]BOOTH
[02:35.775]Not till I finish this.
[02:36.532]HEROLD
[02:36.786]Johnny --
[02:37.284]BOOTH
[02:37.284]No! Have you seen these papers? Do you know what they're calling me?! A common cutthroat! A hired
[02:42.534]assassin! This one says I'm mad!
[02:44.530]HEROLD
[02:44.530]We must have been mad to think we could kill the President and get away with it!
[02:47.027]BOOTH
[02:47.282]We did get away with it!
[02:49.036]He was a bloody tyrant and we brought him down!
[02:51.274]And I will not have history think I did it for a bag of gold or in some kind of rabid fit!
[02:55.526]HEROLD
[02:55.778]Johnny, we have to go --
[02:56.536]BOOTH
[02:56.778]No! I have to make my case! And I need you to take it down!
[03:00.283]HEROLD
[03:00.283]We don't have time!
[03:01.524]BOOTH
[03:01.782]Take it down.
[03:04.535]An indictment.
[03:05.533]Of the former President of the United States,
[03:07.031]Abraham Lincoln,
[03:08.529]who is herein charged with the following High Crimes and Misdemeanors.
[03:11.537]BALLADEER
[03:11.537]They say your ship was sinkin', John...
[03:13.774]BOOTH
[03:14.530]One: That you did ruthlessly provoke a war
[03:18.280]between the States which cost
[03:20.034]some six hundred thousand of
[03:21.275]my countrymen their lives. Two --
[03:22.784]BALLADEER
[03:23.030]You'd started missing cues...
[03:24.781]BOOTH
[03:26.477]Two: That you did silence your critics in the North
[03:29.729]by hurling them into prison
[03:30.982]without benefit of charge or trial. Three --
[03:32.978]BALLADEER
[03:33.224]They say it wasn't Lincoln, John.
[03:35.233]BOOTH
[03:35.474]Shut up! Three --
[03:35.973]BALLADEER
[03:36.472]You'd merely had
[03:37.230]A slew of bad
[03:37.728]Reviews --
[03:38.727]BOOTH
[03:38.980]I said shut up!
[03:40.978]VOICE
[03:41.223]Booth! I have fifty soldiers out here, Booth!
[03:43.973]Give yourselves up or we'll set fire to the barn!
[03:47.226]HEROLD
[03:47.724]Don't shoot! I'm coming out!
[03:48.724]BOOTH
[03:48.978]No!
[03:50.233]
[03:52.983]I have given up my life for one act, you understand?
[03:57.732]Do not let history rob me of it's meaning.
[04:01.227]Pass on the truth!
[04:03.675]You're the only one who can. Please...
[04:06.928]
[04:07.669]BALLADEER
[04:08.926]He said,
[04:09.678]"Damn you, Lincoln,
[04:10.922]You had your way --
[04:13.172]BOOTH
[04:13.430]Tell 'em, boy!
[04:14.172]BALLADEER
[04:14.428]With blood you drew out
[04:15.926]Of Blue and Gray!"
[04:17.423]BOOTH
[04:17.677]Tell it all!
[04:18.922]Tell them till they listen!
[04:19.674]BALLADEER
[04:20.673]He said,
[04:21.929]"Damn you, Lincoln,
[04:22.670]And damn the day
[04:24.679]You threw the 'U' out
[04:26.675]Of U.S.A.!"
[04:30.681]He said:
[04:31.180]BOOTH
[04:31.679]Hunt me down, smear my name,
[04:33.676]Say I did it for the fame,
[04:36.429]What I did was kill the man who killed my country.
[04:41.676]Now the Southland will mend,
[04:44.428]Now this bloody war can end,
[04:46.925]Because someone slew the tyrant
[04:49.921]Just as Brutus slew the tyrant --
[04:51.928]BALLADEER
[04:53.181]He said:
[04:53.680]BALLADEER, BOOTH
[04:54.424]Damn you, Lincoln,
[04:55.424]You righteous whore!
[04:56.921]BOOTH
[04:57.420]Tell 'em!
[04:57.674]Tell 'em what he did!
[04:58.431]BALLADEER, BOOTH
[04:58.929]You turned your spite into civil war!
[05:01.181]BOOTH
[05:01.679]Tell 'em!
[05:02.180]Tell 'em the truth!
[05:02.923]BALLADEER
[05:03.178]And more...
[05:03.676]BOOTH
[05:03.921]Tell 'em, boy!
[05:04.421]Tell them how it happened,
[05:05.431]How the end doesn't mean that it's over,
[05:08.925]How surrender is not the end!
[05:13.173]Tell them:
[05:17.424]How the country is not what it was,
[05:21.671]Where there's blood in the clover,
[05:26.676]How the nation can never again
[05:31.679]Be the hope that it was.
[05:36.429]How the bruises may never be healed,
[05:41.922]How the wounds are forever,
[05:46.181]How we gave up the field
[05:48.178]But we still wouldn't yield,
[05:50.175]How the Union can never recover
[05:53.926]From that vulgar,
[05:56.176]High and mighty
[05:57.421]Niggerlover,
[05:58.674]Never--!
[06:01.925]Never. Never. Never.
[06:08.681]No, the country is not what it was...
[06:33.677]Damn my soul if you must,
[06:37.172]Let my body turn to dust,
[06:40.425]Let it mingle with the ashes of the country.
[06:47.180]Let them curse me to hell,
[06:50.175]Leave it to history to tell:
[06:53.427]What I did, I did well,
[06:56.422]And I did it for my country.
[06:59.929]Let them cry, "Dirty traitor!"
[07:03.922]They will understand it later --
[07:11.178]The country is not what it was...
[07:24.426]BALLADEER
[07:25.924]Johnny Booth was a headstrong fellow,
[07:28.674]Even he believed the things he said.
[07:32.179]Some called him noble, some said yellow.
[07:35.176]What he was was off his head.
[07:38.927]How could you do it, Johnny,
[07:41.677]Calling it a cause?
[07:43.674]You left a legacy
[07:45.172]Of butchery
[07:46.426]And treason we
[07:47.925]Took eagerly,
[07:50.421]And thought you'd get applause.
[07:53.171]But traitors just get jeers and boos,
[07:55.679]Not visits to their graves,
[07:58.420]While Lincoln, who got mixed reviews,
[08:01.427]Because of you, John, now gets only raves.
[08:06.175]Damn you, Johnny,
[08:07.672]You paved the way
[08:11.424]For other madmen
[08:13.420]To make us pay.
[08:16.428]Lots of madmen
[08:18.179]Have had their say --
[08:20.921]But only for a day.
[08:29.931]Listen to the stories.
[08:32.426]Hear it in the songs.
[08:35.921]Angry men
[08:37.369]Don't write the rules
[08:39.121]And guns don't right the wrongs.
[08:43.626]Hurts a while,
[08:44.624]But soon the country's
[08:47.121]Back where it belongs,
[08:51.871]And that's the truth.
[08:56.617]Still and all,
[09:03.120]Damn you, Booth!