Here Was a Man-Johnny Cash

[00:11.67]Here was a man [00:13.47]A man who was born in a small village [00:16.32]The son of a peasant woman [00:18.52]He grew up in another small village [00:21.85]Until he reached the age of thirty [00:23.77]He worked as a carpenter [00:25.87]Then for three years [00:26.89]He was a traveling minister [00:29.58]But he never traveled more [00:30.47]Than two hundred miles from [00:32.53]Where he was born and [00:34.22]Where he did go he usually walked [00:38.60]He never held political office [00:41.06]He never wrote a book [00:42.92]Never bought a home [00:44.38]Never had a family [00:46.21]He never went to college [00:47.78]And he never set foot inside a big city [00:50.49]Yes here was a man [00:54.58]Yes here was a man [00:56.67]Though he never did one on the things [00:58.16]Usually associated with greatness [01:01.90]He had no credentials but himself [01:05.30]He had nothing to do with this world [01:07.64]Except through the divine purpose [01:10.19]That brought him to this world [01:13.55]While he was still a young man [01:15.64]The tide of popular opinion turned against him [01:19.85]Most of his friends ran away [01:22.50]One of them denied him [01:23.91]One of them betrayed him [01:26.24]And turned him over to his enemies [01:29.39]Then he went through the mockery of a trial [01:32.28]And was nailed to a cross between two thieves [01:38.37]And even while he was dying [01:41.09]His executioners gambled [01:43.23]For the only piece of property [01:45.40]That he had in this world [01:46.99]And that was his robe his purple robe [01:52.86]When he was dead [01:54.74]He was taken down from the cross [01:57.18]And laid in a borrowed grave [01:59.32]Provided by compassionate friends [02:03.89]More than nineteen centuries have come and gone [02:07.12]And today he's a centerpiece of the human race [02:10.40]Our leader in the column to human destiny [02:15.16]And I think I'm well within the mark when I say [02:18.16]That all of the armies that ever marched [02:21.40]All of the navies that ever sailed the seas [02:23.94]All of the legislative bodies that ever sat [02:27.54]And all of the kings that ever reigned [02:30.13]All of them put together have not affected [02:33.27]The life of man on this earth [02:35.07]So powerfully as that one solitary life [02:40.76]Here was a man