Текст песни: Mary Huddleston + перевод

They called her Mary Huddleston.

She took a one-way trip

All the way down to the Cape

On a Union Castle ship.

Mary looked for a brand new life

Which finally she found

Some way into the hinterland

On a patch of broken ground.

The day she sailed from Liverpool,

She cried into the rain.

She knew that she would never see

Her family again.

But a new world waited out across

Two thousand ocean leagues;

A world of new horizons,

Of adventures and intrigues.

Through hot and dusty summers

And the freezing winter wind,

When every bluster made her feel

Her face was being skinned,

When fever struck and crops had failed

And famine had arrived,

Still Mary raised a family

And somehow she survived.

They moved her from that patch of land

To leave her dispossessed.

She found another just the same

A few miles to the west.

Whatever they could throw at her,

She took it on the chin.

She was unbowed and yes, was proud

She’d never given in.

The ending came, and as you’d guess

She never made the trip

Back to the port of Liverpool

On a Union Castle ship.

There was a phone call — just the one —

When a frail voice cracked through.

My grandma, in her eighties then,

Said, «Mary, is that you?»

I guess it’s always been the same

And evermore will be;

The magic of the one-way trip

That calls humanity.

And should you ever raise your eyes

To the heavens and to Mars,

You might see Mary Huddleston

Out there amongst the stars.

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