Here Was a Man-Johnny Cash

[ti:Here Was A Man] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:A Country Christmas Volume 2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Here Was a Man - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:00.66]Written by：Bill Walker/Johnny Bond/Tex Ritter [00:01.15] [00:11.97]Here was a man a man [00:14.18]Who was born in a small village [00:15.64] [00:16.62]The son of a peasant woman [00:17.62] [00:18.82]He grew up in another small village [00:20.64] [00:22.15]Until he reached the age of thirty [00:24.07]He worked as a carpenter [00:25.14] [00:26.17]Then for three years [00:27.19]He was a traveling minister [00:28.33] [00:29.88]But he never traveled more [00:30.77]Than two hundred miles from [00:32.83]Where he was born and [00:34.52]Where he did go he usually walked [00:37.13] [00:38.90]He never held political office [00:40.20] [00:41.36]He never wrote a book [00:42.29] [00:43.22]Never bought a home [00:44.04] [00:44.68]Never had a family [00:45.45] [00:46.51]He never went to college [00:47.38] [00:48.08]And he never set foot inside a big city [00:50.79]Yes here was a man [00:52.43] [00:54.88]Yes here was a man [00:55.62] [00:56.97]Though he never did one on the things [00:58.46]Usually associated with greatness [01:00.67] [01:02.20]He had no credentials but himself [01:03.79] [01:05.60]He had nothing to do with this world [01:07.05] [01:07.94]Except through the divine purpose [01:09.67] [01:10.49]That brought him to this world [01:11.71] [01:13.85]While he was still a young man [01:14.98] [01:15.94]The tide of popular opinion turned against him [01:18.60] [01:20.15]Most of his friends ran away [01:21.38] [01:22.80]One of them denied him [01:24.21]One of them betrayed him [01:25.50] [01:26.54]And turned him over to his enemies [01:27.80] [01:29.69]Then he went through the mockery of a trial [01:31.36] [01:32.58]And was nailed to a cross between two thieves [01:35.88] [01:38.67]And even while he was dying [01:40.28] [01:41.39]His executioners gambled [01:43.53]For the only piece of property [01:45.03] [01:45.70]That he had in this world [01:46.66] [01:47.29]And that was his robe his purple robe [01:50.65] [01:53.16]When he was dead [01:53.85] [01:55.04]He was taken down from the cross [01:56.41] [01:57.48]And laid in a borrowed grave [01:58.85] [01:59.62]Provided by compassionate friends [02:01.09] [02:04.19]More than nineteen centuries have come and gone [02:06.24] [02:07.42]And today he's a centerpiece of the human race [02:09.68] [02:10.70]Our leader in the column to human destiny [02:13.08] [02:15.46]I think I'm well within the mark when I say [02:18.46]That all of the armies that ever marched [02:20.72] [02:21.70]All of the navies that ever sailed the seas [02:23.57] [02:24.24]All of the legislative bodies that ever sat [02:26.62] [02:27.84]And all of the kings that ever reigned [02:29.70] [02:30.43]All of them put together have not affected [02:33.57]The life of man on this earth [02:34.83] [02:35.37]So powerfully as that one solitary life [02:39.34] [02:41.06]Here was a man