Here Was a Man-Johnny Cash/Tex Ritter

[00:00.000] 作曲 : Tex Ritter [00:00.08]Joy to the world the Lord is come [00:08.53]Here was a man a man who was born in a small village [00:13.09]The son of a peasant woman [00:15.89]He grew up in another small village [00:18.91]Until he reached the age of thirty he worked as a carpenter [00:23.29]Then for three years he was a traveling minister [00:26.28]But he never traveled more than [00:27.63]Two hundred miles from where he was born [00:30.33]And where he did go he usually walked [00:36.15]He never held political office [00:37.94]He never wrote a book never bought a home [00:40.37]Never had a family he never went to college [00:43.59]And he never set foot inside a big city [00:48.75]Yes here was a man [00:51.03]Though he never did one on [00:52.30]The things usually associated with greatness [00:55.50]He had no credentials but himself [00:58.09]He had nothing to do with this world [00:59.71]Except through the devine purpose [01:01.76]That brought him to this world [01:07.29]While he was still a young man [01:08.93]The tide of popular opinion turned against him [01:12.23]Most of his friends ran away one of them denied him [01:16.67]One of them betrayed him and turned him over to his enemies [01:20.44]Then he went through the mockery of a trial [01:22.57]And was nailed to a cross between two thieves [01:25.60]And even while he was dying his executioners gambled [01:29.60]For the only piece of property that he had in this world [01:33.05]And that was his robe his purple robe [01:39.91]When he was dead he was taken down from the cross [01:43.37]And laid in a borrowed grave provided [01:45.10]By compassionate friends [01:50.32]More than nineteen centuries have come and gone [01:52.51]And today he's a centerpiece of the human race [01:56.33]Our leader in the column to human destiny [02:00.35]I think I'm well within the mark [02:01.98]When I say that all of the armies that ever marched [02:05.82]All of the navies that ever sailed the seas [02:08.69]All of the legislative bodies that ever sat [02:11.88]And all of the kings that ever reigned [02:14.58]All of them put together have not affected [02:17.26]The life of man on this earth [02:20.06]So powerfully as that one solitary cheery life [02:26.59]Here was a man [02:28.84]Joy to the world the Lord is come