The Ballad Of Barbara-Johnny Cash

[ti:The Ballad Of Barbara] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:Johnny Cash Is Coming to Town and Water from the Wells of Home] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Ballad Of Barbara - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:10.18]In a southern town where I was born [00:13.86] [00:14.88]That's where I got my education [00:18.67] [00:19.59]I worked in the fields and I walked in the woods [00:23.34] [00:24.32]And I wondered at creation [00:28.03] [00:28.94]I recall the sun in a sky of blue [00:32.68] [00:33.67]And the smell of green things growin' [00:37.73] [00:38.40]And the seasons chang'd and I lived each day [00:42.22] [00:43.12]Just the way the wind was blowin' [00:47.02] [00:47.90]Then I heard of a cultured city life [00:51.50] [00:52.66]Breath takin' lofty steeples [00:56.50] [00:57.36]And the day I called myself a man [01:00.84] [01:02.04]I left my land and my people [01:05.88] [01:06.78]And I rambled north and I rambled east [01:10.29] [01:11.50]And I tested and I tasted [01:15.10] [01:16.19]And a girl or two took me round and round [01:20.06] [01:21.03]But they always left me wasted [01:24.72] [01:25.67]In a world that's all concrete and steel [01:29.30] [01:30.36]With nothin' green ever growin' [01:34.42] [01:35.01]Where the buildings hide the risin' sun [01:38.82] [01:39.76]And they blocked the free winds from blowin [01:43.63] [01:44.48]Where you sleep all day and you wake all night [01:48.04] [01:49.22]To a world of drink and laughter [01:53.11] [01:53.98]I met that girl that I was sure would be [01:57.63] [01:58.75]The one that I was after [02:02.47] [02:27.42]In a soft blue gown and formal tux [02:31.17] [02:32.22]Beneath that lofty steeple [02:36.08] [02:36.97]He said "Do you Barbara take this man [02:40.59] [02:41.70]Will you be one of his people " [02:45.46] [02:46.38]And she said "I will " and she said "I do " [02:49.90] [02:51.15]And the world looked mighty pretty [02:54.81] [02:55.88]And we lived in a fancy downtown flat [02:59.80] [03:00.67]'Cause she loved the noisy city [03:04.39] [03:05.45]But the days grew cold beneath a yellow sky [03:09.16] [03:10.15]And I longed for green things growin' [03:14.06] [03:14.87]And the thoughts of home and the people there [03:18.37] [03:19.61]But she'd not agreed to goin' [03:23.48] [03:24.37]Then her hazel eyes turned away from me [03:27.94] [03:29.06]With a look that wasn't pretty [03:33.07] [03:33.80]And she turned into concrete and steel [03:37.77] [03:38.61]And she said "I'll take the city " [03:42.38] [03:43.40]Now the cars go by on the interstate [03:46.95] [03:48.08]And my pack is on my shoulder [03:51.99] [03:52.78]But I'm goin' home where I belong [03:56.32] [03:57.53]Much wiser now and older