Late Summer Fields

Summer drew to an end, and early autumn: it was past Michaelmas, but the harvest was late that year, and a few of our fields were still uncleared.

夏天结束了，已是早秋天气，已经过了秋节，但是那年收成晚，我们的田有些还没有清除完毕。

In late summer and early fall, they picked cotton in the fields beside black men and women, and if there was ever a conflict there, I was too dumb to see it.

在夏季末和初秋之时，他们会在田间采摘棉花，若是和身边的黑人发生争执，我也因为太过害怕而不敢多看一眼。

If you were to make a music video based on these lyrics you'd probably want mid to late summer images of fruit-laden trees and fields of rippling wheat under sunny blue skies.

如果你打算取材于这些歌词作曲，那你也许想要夏末载满果实的树，和晴朗蓝天下翻滚的麦浪的图像吧。