King of the road

最近看了into the wild　又听到了King of the road這首歌，在斷背山的原聲也收錄了Roger Miller這　首本名曲。
很多時去Ned Kelly听也會听到這首歌。


歌詞：
Trailer for sale or rent
Rooms to let...fifty cents.
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but..two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.

Third boxcar, midnight train
Destination...Bangor, Maine.
Old worn out clothes and shoes,
I don't pay no union dues,
I smoke old stogies I have found
Short, but not too big around
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.

I know every engineer on every train
All of their children, and all of their names
And every handout in every town
And every lock that ain't locked
When no one's around.

I sing,
Trailers for sale or rent
Rooms to let, fifty cents
No phone, no pool, no pets
I ain't got no cigarettes
Ah, but, two hours of pushin' broom
Buys an eight by twelve four-bit room
I'm a man of means by no means
King of the road.

這歌　歌詞寫得好，就如I'm a man of means by no means就寫得很玄，man of means"有財產的人"，也就是富有的人；後半句by no means　"絕對不是"　的意思，man of means by no means第一次念到的時候　就好像是　"身無長物而又富足的人"；從整首歌　歌詞听下來　就感覺到歌者以天為被地為枕，知足長樂的豪邁心境。

其中no pool, no pets, I ain't got no cigarettes這段歌詞在 into the wild裡　克里斯托克Christopher 就在日記本裡寫了下來。