The Oak Ridge Boys — That Ole Gravel Road Was Easy Street letra e tradução
A página contém a letra e a tradução em português da música "That Ole Gravel Road Was Easy Street" de The Oak Ridge Boys.
Letra
When I was eight years old
I tried to leave the farm
I flew a homemade plane
Out of the loft of the barn
If I could go back now
You couldn’t pay me to leave
'Cause that old gravel road was easy street
We were a four-dog family
With some dreams and a flat-bed truck
That ole school bus would rattle and shake
When it would pick us up
Those creek bank rocks
Were hard on our feet
But that ole gravel road was easy street
That ole gravel road was easy street
They used to say we were poor
But we were rich as we could be
We were down on our luck
But we were up to our necks in homemade love
That ole gravel road was easy street
I thought having it made
Was growing up
Movin' off to town, getting' married
And going to work
But those sidewalks
Ain’t all they’re cracked up to be
That ole gravel road was easy street
Tradução da letra
Quando eu tinha oito anos
Tentei sair da Quinta.
Pilotei um avião caseiro.
Fora do sótão do celeiro
Se eu pudesse voltar agora
Não podias pagar-me para me ir embora.
Porque aquela estrada de cascalho era fácil
Éramos uma família de quatro cães.
Com alguns sonhos e um camião de cama plana
Aquele autocarro da escola de ole abanava e tremia
Quando nos apanhava
Aquelas rochas do Riacho
Somos duros com os nossos pés
Mas aquela estrada de cascalho era fácil.
Aquela estrada de cascalho era fácil.
Costumavam dizer que éramos pobres.
Mas éramos ricos como podíamos ser
Estávamos com pouca sorte.
Mas estávamos atolados em amor caseiro
Aquela estrada de cascalho era fácil.
Pensei que o tivesse feito.
Estava a crescer
Indo para a cidade, casando
E ir trabalhar
Mas aqueles passeios
Não é tudo o que dizem ser
Aquela estrada de cascalho era fácil.