Here Was a Man-Johnny Cash

[ti:Here Was a Man(Mono Version)] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:The Christmas Spirit] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Here Was a Man - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:09.02]Here was a man a man who was born in a small village [00:12.52] [00:13.60]The son of a peasant woman [00:14.80] [00:16.43]He grew up in another small village [00:18.19] [00:19.49]Until he reached the age of thirty he worked as a carpenter [00:23.16] [00:23.78]Then for three years he was a traveling minister [00:25.99] [00:26.82]But he never traveled more than [00:28.20]Two hundred miles from where he was born [00:30.14] [00:30.65]And where he did go he usually walked [00:33.53] [00:36.71]He never held political office [00:38.44]He never wrote a book never bought a home [00:40.93]Never had a family he never went to college [00:44.36]And he never set foot inside a big city [00:46.95] [00:49.29]Yes here was a man [00:50.48] [00:51.50]Though he never did one on [00:52.55]The things usually associated with greatness [00:54.81] [00:56.07]He had no credentials but himself [00:57.70] [00:58.41]He had nothing to do with this world [01:00.35]Except through the devine purpose [01:02.25]That brought him to this world [01:03.57] [01:07.91]While he was still a young man [01:09.32]The tide of popular opinion turned against him [01:11.92] [01:12.79]Most of his friends ran away one of them denied him [01:16.58] [01:17.32]One of them betrayed him and turned him over to his enemies [01:19.75] [01:20.82]Then he went through the mockery of a trial [01:23.03]And was nailed to a cross between two thieves [01:25.26] [01:25.96]And even while he was dying his executioners gambled [01:29.97]For the only piece of property that he had in this world [01:33.09] [01:33.68]And that was his robe his purple robe [01:36.58] [01:40.48]When he was dead he was taken down from the cross [01:43.15] [01:43.96]And laid in a borrowed grave provided [01:45.89]By compassionate friends [01:47.31] [01:50.98]More than nineteen centuries have come and gone [01:53.73]And today he's a centerpiece of the human race [01:56.05] [01:56.99]Our leader in the column to human destiny [01:59.19] [02:01.03]I think I'm well within the mark [02:02.78]When I say that all of the armies that ever marched [02:05.69] [02:06.40]All of the navies that ever sailed the seas [02:08.40] [02:09.31]All of the legislative bodies that ever sat [02:11.94] [02:12.47]And all of the kings that ever reigned [02:15.11]All of them put together have not affected [02:17.75]The life of man on this earth [02:19.68] [02:20.44]So powerfully as that one solitary cheery life [02:25.64] [02:27.14]Here was a man [02:28.24] [02:29.27]Joy to the world the Lord is come