Sing Joy Spring (LP版)-The Manhattan Transfer

[ti:Sing Joy Spring (LP Version)] [ar:曼哈顿行者爵士] [al:The Manhattan Transfer Anthology - Down In Birdland] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.57]We sing a spring [00:01.69]Sing joy spring [00:02.84]A rare and most mysterious spring [00:04.19] [00:04.78]This most occulting [00:06.73]Is buried deep in the soul [00:10.42]It's story never has been told [00:12.74]The joy spring the fountain of pleasure [00:16.28]Is deep inside you whether you're digging it or not [00:18.61]Once you're aware of this spring [00:20.80]You'll know that it's the greatest [00:22.12]Treasure you've got [00:23.35]And furthermore [00:24.29]The joy spring the bounteous treasure [00:26.22] [00:28.24]Cannot be bartered away and never [00:29.60]Can be sold [00:30.47]Nothing can take it from you [00:32.77]It's yours and yours alone to have [00:34.01]And to hold [00:35.61]And something more: [00:36.68]It never is lost to fire or theft [00:38.61]It's always around [00:39.11]When trouble is gone the pleasure [00:41.07]Is left I've always found [00:42.53]It's burglar-proof same as the treasure [00:44.28]Man lays up in heaven worth a [00:45.76]Price no one can measure [00:46.68] [00:47.59]That says a lot [00:48.41]So joy spring this fountain of pleasure [00:52.15]That's deep inside you let me inform [00:53.30]You in all truth [00:54.02]Ponce de Leon sought this [00:56.87]When he was searching for the fountain of youth [00:58.56]Oh Ponce de Leon laughed so much he [01:00.48]Never did find the magic fountain [01:04.03]But many people with a well-adjusted [01:05.39]Spirit they could hear it when you told [01:07.69]Them it was there telling them was [01:09.08]Like telling it on the mountain [01:12.22]It's quite a life having the gift oflaughter [01:13.62] [01:14.48]I'm a man who knows in a minute [01:16.54]I can tell you just exactly how the story goes [01:20.98]It involves a firm conviction in another [01:22.41]Previous life giving your mind a chance to fly [01:25.83]Fly around the universe investigating other [01:27.09]Galaxies certain other subtle [01:28.22]Types of life trying dig it getting [01:29.91]Pretty well-acquainted with a lot of [01:30.85]Other strife an pretty much acquiring [01:31.71]Yourself plenty of education [01:33.14]Pretty soon here comes earth birth [01:36.85]And then you're ready to put it all the work [01:40.46]But soon as you're finished being born [01:41.85]You start forgetting what you knew [01:43.34]'Cause you're another kinda you - a [01:44.79]Reincarnation manifestation [01:45.33]Of spirit in sensation [01:46.55] [01:48.12]You're really got that right [01:50.31]The average person isn't bright [01:52.00]Not so bright that they recall the fatal fall [01:54.95]Down here this earth [01:56.44]Their minds disguise their death to spirit [01:57.76]Life and call it birth [01:59.69]That's their reason for forgetting and they [02:01.65]Find it very upsetting when reminded [02:04.07]Tell them they've lived before [02:05.14]They'll show you the nearest open door [02:06.82]Gotta have feeling while dealing with [02:07.81]Walkers in their sleep [02:09.15]They can't imagine something as deep [02:10.58]Here they come here they come there they are [02:11.77]Unimaginative and ignorant of falling from a star [02:13.77]Here they come there they are there they go [02:14.98]Life is over in a minute an' they never dug [02:16.30]It in it or enjoy a minute of it [02:17.51]'Cause they put too much above it [02:18.39]That was gross [02:18.80]Something that was worth a couple bucks [02:19.79]At mos [02:20.07] [02:20.63]So there is the reason that the maker of man [02:22.92] [02:23.89]Included there in his plan [02:25.43]A certain fountain deep with in [02:27.03]Where there was laughter youth 'n gold [02:28.73]For human beings that haven't hold [02:30.01]Share the memory of where we've all been [02:33.64]Brothers called Grimm knew chances were slim [02:36.00]Anybody would dig that the human soul [02:38.27]Was Snow White [02:39.58]And the Seven Dwarfs were seven tempers in man [02:42.09]Whose digging out the gold completes the plan [02:44.76]An Bacon was hip that Shakespeare [02:46.06]Couldn't read [02:47.10]And so he gave him all the rhymes [02:48.94]That have lasted through the years [02:49.91]And kept eternal truths alive through [02:50.94] [02:51.76]Several centuries [02:52.34] [02:53.16]That's how we know them now [02:55.39]They lasted cause they're true [02:56.99]What was it from MacBeth [02:58.15]Life's but a walking shadow a player poor [03:00.82]That struts and frets upon the stage [03:02.85]And seen no more [03:03.87]A tale that truly has an idiotic ring [03:06.74]That's full of lots of sound and fury [03:08.32]Signifying nothing ' [03:08.75] [03:11.29]That's right signifying nothing [03:13.49]I'll repeat it Nothing [03:14.69]Don't forget it - Nothing [03:16.90]And that's the reason for that spring of joy [03:18.86]That the Father put inside of every [03:20.18]Single girl and boy [03:24.28] [05:04.96]Show time Everyone's on [05:06.90]Let's hit the stage [05:07.97]It's show time everyone an' proceed [05:10.17]To act your age [05:10.98] [05:17.00]Whatever you're frowning at is funny [05:18.44]Enough laughing [05:18.80]So you're wasting all your humor on a frown [05:21.04]While you're bringing your spirit down [05:22.99] [05:28.48]You gotta book yourself a comic in your act [05:31.68]Without some laughter life's a maudlin [05:33.27]Farce 'n that's a fact [05:37.28] [05:39.89]Once you know about the spring you always can smile [05:42.32]It becomes your one expression [05:43.62]And you're always wearing it like the [05:45.06]Buddhas do [05:46.42] [05:55.96]We sing a spring [05:57.06]Sing joy spring [05:58.26]A rare and most mysterious spring [05:59.13] [06:00.26]This most occulting [06:02.06]Is buried deep in the soul [06:05.52]It's story never has been told [06:07.85]The joy spring the fountain of pleasure [06:11.59]Is deep inside you whether you're digging it or not [06:14.05]Once you're aware of this spring [06:16.45]You'll know that it's the greatest [06:17.70]Treasure you've got [06:19.04]And furthermore [06:19.82]The joy spring the bounteous treasure [06:23.47]Cannot be bartered away and never [06:25.04]Can be sold [06:25.87]Nothing can take it from you [06:28.07]It's yours and yours alone to have [06:29.62]And to hold [06:30.88]And something more: [06:31.34]It never is lost to fire or theft [06:33.83]It's always around [06:34.64]When trouble is gone the pleasure [06:35.99]Is left I've always found [06:37.91]It's burglar-proof same as the treasure [06:39.51]Man lays up in heaven worth a [06:41.17]Price no one can measure [06:42.63]That says a lot [06:43.65]So joy spring this fountain of pleasure [06:47.27]That's deep inside you let me inform [06:49.02]You in all truth [06:50.64]Ponce de Leon sought this [06:51.53]When he was searching [06:52.54]For the fountain of youth [06:54.54]I say in truth he sought a magical thing [06:56.41] [06:58.00]For he was searching [06:58.86]For the joy spring