The Man He Was-Emitt Rhodes

[ti:The Man He Was] [ar:Emitt Rhodes] [al:The Emitt Rhodes Recordings (1969 - 1973)] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Man He Was - Emitt Rhodes [00:16.03]In a village in the woods they plant [00:18.49]A tree for every newborn babe [00:20.20] [00:21.57]So they sowed a seed for a child [00:23.96]Named John and they watched it day by day [00:26.74] [00:27.48]The tree it grew in a very strange way as twisted as a knot [00:31.92] [00:32.82]And the child he grew in the very [00:35.40]Same way and never would his parents have thought [00:38.39] [00:40.51]The lad was bright and he learned [00:42.73]To read as well as he could talk [00:44.78] [00:45.82]But his limbs were as twisted as the [00:48.28]Tree and never would he walk [00:50.46] [00:51.81]People would come to stop and stare [00:54.62]And you could hear them say [00:56.34] [00:57.57]It doesn't seem to me to be [00:59.84]Quite fair and then be on their way [01:02.17] [01:10.95]Sing a song of joy lift your hearts in song [01:15.10] [01:16.51]For a newborn boy for a life that's long [01:21.01] [01:23.99]For a life that's long [01:25.64] [01:28.99]Now he loved the tree even [01:30.93]Though it was as twisted as himself [01:32.96] [01:34.50]For somewhere deep inside his soul he thought of nothing else [01:38.99] [01:40.40]And the boy he grew [01:41.89]Did the best he could but his limbs remained the same [01:45.40] [01:46.01]Well whoever listens who will [01:48.14]Understand someone who is lame [01:50.60] [01:53.26]Some came to cry and some [01:55.10]Came to laugh the day he passed away [01:57.68] [01:58.91]He's really not dead [02:00.43]He's just taking a nap I heard somebody say [02:02.90] [02:04.61]I can't explain the tree [02:06.69]Had died it withered without love [02:08.98] [02:10.33]But a stump remains to remind us of the man that he was [02:15.27] [02:23.89]Sing a song of death sing a song of peace [02:28.13] [02:29.42]Sing a song of rest and a song of relief [02:33.59] [02:36.83]Till the end of time [02:37.95] [02:41.16]Till the end of time [02:42.55] [02:45.44]Till the end of time