我的“双重生活”

By Seth Jovaag

农场工人和乐队歌手，乍一听这两个身份怎么也扯不到一块吧？但如果一个人同时身兼此两职，那会是怎样的一种生活？想必很有趣。如果可以兼顾的话，过一下“双重”甚至“多重”的生活，让自己的人生更丰富多彩，这也未尝不是一件好事。

I have an interesting 1）dichotomy with my two lifestyles that， you know， complement or become a problem with each other， depending on how you look at it.

The farm was 2）homesteaded in 1854. My brother and I are the fifth generation. We started out with 340 acres， and now were up to around 1，500 acres. The house is still here， was built in 1920， so my older brother and two older sisters， we all were raised here. We milk roughly 200 dairy cattle twice a day.

My job is an interesting one. I guess Im kind of the know-everything-not-good-at-anything， kind of a mechanic and fill in the spots， but mostly do a lot of field work， trying to keep everything running as best as we can.

I am also the band leader of The Jimmies.

“How are you out there？ We are The Jimmies.”

We brilliantly named the band The Jimmies. We thought long and hard on that one.

“Were just gonna do this. Were screwin around here. We hope you like it.”

I play the piano and the 3）Hammond B-3， and do a lot of the singing and song-writing. Music has been in our family forever. My parents met at one of my dads 4）gigs. My mom still sings. We often call ourselves the 5）von Voegling Trapp Singers， you know， and practically want to put on 6）lederhosen sometimes. Ah， thats awkward.

When youre out on a tractor， I always have paper and pen， constantly writing stuff down. Yeah，it is a great place. You can just shut the...shut this everything off in terms of music and kind of put your mind into a different 7）trance.

As expected， they are very much two different worlds. Theyre similar in the pay structure. I am not buying new cars， being a blues musician and a dairy farmer， but， I think both take an enormous amount of dedication and both take an enormous amount of flexibility. Anything could happen on any given day on the farm， and things change by the minute all the time. And the same as goes for live music.

I cant say Ive sung to any cows， no.

我的生活很有意思，因为它一分为二。两种截然不同的生活方式是相辅相成还是相互矛盾，就在于你如何看待了。

从1854年开始我们家就在这个农场定居下来，我和我哥已经是农场上的第五代了。刚开始的时候农场只有340英亩，现在增加到了1500英亩左右。我们家的这座房子是1920年建成的，现在还在这里，我和我的哥哥还有两个姐姐都是在这儿长大的。我们每天都要给大约200头奶牛挤奶，一天两次。

我的工作挺有趣的。我应该是那种什么都会一点但什么都不精通的人，可以说是个技工吧，哪里有需要我就去哪里，但多数时候是在地里干活，尽我们所能让一切正常运转。

我还是吉米乐队的队长。

“朋友们你们好吗？我们是吉米乐队。”

我们将乐队命名为吉米乐队。怎样？很有才吧。这个名字我们可是绞尽脑汁想了好久才想出来的。

“下面我们就要唱歌啦，随便玩玩，希望大家喜欢。”

我弹奏钢琴和哈蒙德B-3风琴，大部分的歌都是由我创作和演唱的。我们家一直和音乐紧密相连。我的父母就是在我爸的一次演奏会上认识的；我妈到现在还在唱歌。我们经常自称为von Voegling Trapp Singers，有时候几乎还想穿上皮裤。嗯，这挺别扭的。

我在拖拉机上的时候，总会带着纸和笔，随时把有用的东西记录下来。那真是个好地方。你可以把所有的东西都隔绝在外，只剩下音乐，让自己沉浸在另一个世界里。

跟大家想的一样，这是两种截然不同的工作。它们在薪酬结构上还是挺接近的，不过作为一个布鲁斯乐手和一个奶场工人，我也不打算买新车。但我觉得这两种工作都需要付出很多努力，而且都需要很大的灵活性。每一天在农场上都可能发生任何事情，情况总是瞬息万变。现场演唱也是这样。

我可没有给奶牛唱过歌，才不会哩。