The Funeral (Live)-Hank Williams

[ti:The Funeral (Live)] [ar:Hank Williams] [al:Hank Williams: The Greatest Hits Live: Volume 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Funeral (Live) - Hank Williams (小汉克威廉斯) [00:53.72]I was walking in Savannah past a church decayed and dim [00:57.88] [01:00.84]When slowly through the window [01:02.43]Came a plaintive funeral hymn [01:04.18] [01:06.69]And my sympathy awakened and a wonder quickly grew [01:10.46] [01:11.05]Until I found myself envied in a little colored pew [01:15.16] [01:17.78]Out front young couple sat in sorrow nearly wild [01:21.63] [01:23.71]On the altar was a casket and in the casket was a child [01:29.37] [01:31.46]I could picture him while living curly hair protruding lips [01:37.71] [01:39.05]I'd seen perhaps a thousand in my hurried southern trips [01:43.66] [01:45.78]Rose a sad old colored preacher from his little wooden desk [01:51.87] [01:53.74]With a manner sorta awkward and countenance grotesque [01:58.84] [02:02.52]And he said [02:03.30] [02:04.78]Now don't be weeping for this pretty bit of clay [02:07.92] [02:10.13]For the little boy who lived there has done gone [02:13.34]And run away [02:14.42] [02:16.77]He was doing very finely and he appreciates your love [02:20.65] [02:22.37]But his shore nuff father wanted him [02:24.40]In that large house up above [02:26.57] [02:28.73]The lord didn't give you that baby [02:30.41]By no hundred thousand miles [02:33.29] [02:34.85]He just thought you need some sunshine [02:37.04]And he lent it for awhile [02:38.76] [02:41.04]So he let you keep and love it [02:42.80]'Til your hearts were bigger grown [02:45.06] [02:46.67]And these silver tears you're shedding [02:48.78]Now is just interest on the loan [02:51.65] [02:54.35]Just think my poor dear mourners [02:56.27]Creeping long on sorrows life's way [02:59.44] [03:01.02]What a blessed picnic this here baby got today [03:05.45] [03:07.35]Your good fathers and good mothers crowd the little fellow round [03:11.66] [03:13.69]In the angel's tender garden of the big plantation ground [03:17.65] [03:20.03]And his eyes they brightly sparkle at the pretty things he viewed [03:24.49] [03:26.05]But a tear came and he whispered [03:28.37] [03:29.92]I want my parents too [03:31.59] [03:33.39]But then the angel's chief musicians teach that little boy a song [03:37.47] [03:39.05]Says if only they be faithful they'll soon be coming long [03:43.78] [03:45.77]So my poor detached mourners let your hearts with Jesus rest [03:50.30] [03:52.37]And don't go to criticizing the one what knows the best [03:56.10] [03:58.35]He have give us many comforts [03:59.70]He's got the right to take away [04:01.95] [04:03.08]To the lord be praised in glory forever [04:08.50] [04:10.02]And never let us pray