Текст песни: Fiddle On the Wall + перевод

A fiddle on the wall ain’t been played at all

in forty years

I tried a time or two was the wrong thing to do

It hurt my ears

Folks said, «Put it back. You can’t play like Uncle Jack.

He was the best»

Uncle Jack’s gone asunder he’s six feet under

and laid to rest

Uncle Jack was a fiddle playing man

Playing old time music of this land

We could still hear his unique sound

If Uncle Jack hadn’t fiddled around

Uncle Jack would go to the next fiddle show

and play all night

It wasn’t Jack’s winnin' but his eye for the women

would start a fight

Uncle Jack took his place with a grin on his face

He began to play

Then a shot rang out there ain’t no doubt

Was his last day

Well, I declare that old fiddle is still there

I’d like to play

But I think I’ll go and learn the ol' banjo

for another day

We can’t bring back our poor old Uncle Jack

That ain’t our call

Life is a riddle with Uncle Jack’s fiddle

on the wall

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