Here Was a Man-Johnny Cash

[ti:Here Was a Man (Mono Version)] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:The Classic Albums Collection] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Here Was a Man - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:00.69]Joy to the world the Lord is come [00:07.93] [00:09.13]Here was a man a man who was born in a small village [00:12.88] [00:13.70]The son of a peasant woman [00:14.94] [00:16.49]He grew up in another small village [00:18.49] [00:19.51]Until he reached the age of thirty he worked as a carpenter [00:23.16] [00:23.89]Then for three years he was a traveling minister [00:26.07] [00:26.88]But he never traveled more than [00:28.23]Two hundred miles from where he was born [00:30.39] [00:30.93]And where he did go he usually walked [00:33.51] [00:36.75]He never held political office [00:38.54]He never wrote a book never bought a home [00:40.97]Never had a family he never went to college [00:44.19]And he never set foot inside a big city [00:46.82] [00:49.35]Yes here was a man [00:50.54] [00:51.63]Though he never did one on [00:52.90]The things usually associated with greatness [00:54.88] [00:56.10]He had no credentials but himself [00:57.86] [00:58.69]He had nothing to do with this world [01:00.31]Except through the devine purpose [01:02.36]That brought him to this world [01:03.65] [01:07.89]While he was still a young man [01:09.53]The tide of popular opinion turned against him [01:11.88] [01:12.83]Most of his friends ran away one of them denied him [01:16.60] [01:17.27]One of them betrayed him and turned him over to his enemies [01:20.10] [01:21.04]Then he went through the mockery of a trial [01:23.17]And was nailed to a cross between two thieves [01:25.34] [01:26.20]And even while he was dying his executioners gambled [01:30.20]For the only piece of property that he had in this world [01:33.65]And that was his robe his purple robe [01:36.39] [01:40.51]When he was dead he was taken down from the cross [01:43.24] [01:43.97]And laid in a borrowed grave provided [01:45.70]By compassionate friends [01:47.20] [01:50.92]More than nineteen centuries have come and gone [01:53.11]And today he's a centerpiece of the human race [01:55.89] [01:56.93]Our leader in the column to human destiny [01:59.10] [02:00.95]I think I'm well within the mark [02:02.58]When I say that all of the armies that ever marched [02:06.42]All of the navies that ever sailed the seas [02:08.42] [02:09.29]All of the legislative bodies that ever sat [02:11.93] [02:12.48]And all of the kings that ever reigned [02:15.18]All of them put together have not affected [02:17.87]The life of man on this earth [02:19.85] [02:20.66]So powerfully as that one solitary cheery life [02:25.50] [02:27.19]Here was a man [02:28.35] [02:29.44]Joy to the world the Lord is come