Here Was A Man-Johnny Cash

[ti:Here Was A Man] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:Christmas Album] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Here Was A Man - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:09.00]Here was a man a man who was born in a small village [00:12.51] [00:13.50]The son of a peasant woman [00:14.62] [00:16.11]He grew up in another small village [00:18.08] [00:19.25]Until he reached the age of thirty he worked as a carpenter [00:23.67]Then for three years he was a traveling minister [00:25.73] [00:26.64]But he never traveled more than [00:27.85]Two hundred miles from where he was born [00:30.51]And where he did go he usually walked [00:33.73] [00:36.50]He never held political office [00:38.40]He never wrote a book never bought a home [00:40.94]Never had a family he never went to college [00:43.87]And he never set foot inside a big city [00:46.68] [00:49.18]Yes here was a man [00:50.32] [00:51.51]Though he never did one on [00:52.81]The things usually associated with greatness [00:54.77] [00:55.96]He had no credentials but himself [00:57.70] [00:58.52]He had nothing to do with this world [01:00.25]Except through the devine purpose [01:02.32]That brought him to this world [01:03.57] [01:07.79]While he was still a young man [01:09.29]The tide of popular opinion turned against him [01:11.80] [01:12.65]Most of his friends ran away one of them denied him [01:16.33] [01:17.17]One of them betrayed him and turned him over to his enemies [01:19.78] [01:20.92]Then he went through the mockery of a trial [01:22.94]And was nailed to a cross between two thieves [01:25.00] [01:26.01]And even while he was dying his executioners gambled [01:30.37]For the only piece of property that he had in this world [01:33.57]And that was his robe his purple robe [01:36.51] [01:40.32]When he was dead he was taken down from the cross [01:43.21] [01:43.83]And laid in a borrowed grave provided [01:45.96]By compassionate friends [01:47.32] [01:50.80]More than nineteen centuries have come and gone [01:53.59]And today he's a centerpiece of the human race [01:55.98] [01:56.86]Our leader in the column to human destiny [01:59.75] [02:00.93]I think I'm well within the mark [02:02.82]When I say that all of the armies that ever marched [02:06.38]All of the navies that ever sailed the seas [02:08.47] [02:09.17]All of the legislative bodies that ever sat [02:11.71] [02:12.27]And all of the kings that ever reigned [02:15.06]All of them put together have not affected [02:17.51]The life of man on this earth [02:19.60] [02:20.27]So powerfully as that one solitary cheery life [02:27.10]Here was a man [02:28.77] [02:30.44]Joy to the world the lord is come