The Masterpiece-Johnny Cash

[ti:The Masterpiece] [ar:Johnny Cash] [al:The Greatest: Gospel Songs] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]The Masterpiece - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什) [00:17.85]There was an old stone-cutter [00:18.97] [00:19.58]Who lived in a cabin on the mountain side [00:22.08] [00:22.95]And the old stone-cutter [00:24.17]Knew it won't be long before he died [00:26.23] [00:27.98]And all around his cabin were statues the man had made [00:31.57] [00:32.45]Statues that the buyers said were all of a mediocre grade [00:36.25] [00:37.77]With his calloused hands he lit [00:39.64]A lamp and laid down his head on his handmade table [00:42.53] [00:43.44]And he softly whispered Lord [00:45.05] [00:45.59]I'm old and shaky and I'm hardly able [00:48.17] [00:49.34]But give me strenght and wisdom [00:51.02] [00:51.91]And give me a week at least [00:53.43] [00:54.30]And I'll climb up to the top [00:56.02]Of this mountain and chisel out a masterpiece [00:57.71] [01:00.58]The very next morning he felt new strenght [01:02.96]And he took his brand [01:04.34]New hammer and the sharpest chisel [01:05.76] [01:06.49]He began to climb the mountain [01:08.67]His old feet slipping in the freezing dizzle [01:10.64] [01:11.86]When he finally reached the [01:13.15]Top he shouted to a world that didn't hear [01:16.34] [01:16.90]I'll carve my masterpiece out of this marble boulder here [01:20.99] [01:22.45]So the hammer beat the [01:23.73]Chisel and he hammered till an image grew [01:27.02] [01:28.07]Then he stopped to look it [01:29.32]Over to appraise his work when he was through [01:32.22] [01:33.06]It was a boy carrying a crippled [01:35.29]Boy and the old man said it isn't my masterpiece [01:38.43] [01:39.92]I'll call it charity and then a masterpiece of mine will be [01:44.16] [01:45.28]So the hammer beat the chisel [01:47.31]Til another immage in a marbel grew [01:49.62] [01:50.25]Then the wind began to blowing [01:51.73] [01:52.37]And he sat and rested when he was through [01:54.63] [01:55.67]It was the image of a mother holding her child [01:58.22] [01:59.64]He said this is love as the world would know [02:02.56]But it isn't my masterpiece and he began again as it began to snow [02:08.88] [02:10.07]The hammer beat the chisel as [02:12.52]The snow fell harder and the wind grew and grew [02:15.50]He fell to his knees holding a [02:17.62]Stone and he threw down his hammer and his chisel too [02:20.98] [02:21.97]He lay frozen face down in [02:23.77]The snow but one hand was held for the world to see [02:28.27]Cut in the marble was his [02:30.34]Masterpice three neatly carved letters G O D