歌曲名 The Man He Was

歌手名 Emitt Rhodes

作词：Emitt Rhodes

作曲：Emitt Rhodes

In a village in the woods they plant

A tree for every newborn babe

So they sowed a seed for a child

Named John and they watched it day by day

The tree it grew in a very strange way as twisted as a knot

And the child he grew in the very

Same way and never would his parents have thought

The lad was bright and he learned

To read as well as he could talk

But his limbs were as twisted as the

Tree and never would he walk

People would come to stop and stare

And you could hear them say

It doesn't seem to me to be

Quite fair and then be on their way

Sing a song of joy lift your hearts in song

For a newborn boy for a life that's long

For a life that's long

Now he loved the tree even

Though it was as twisted as himself

For somewhere deep inside his soul he thought of nothing else

And the boy he grew

Did the best he could but his limbs remained the same

Well whoever listens who will

Understand someone who is lame

Some came to cry and some

Came to laugh the day he passed away

He's really not dead

He's just taking a nap I heard somebody say

I can't explain the tree

Had died it withered without love

But a stump remains to remind us of the man that he was

Sing a song of death sing a song of peace

Sing a song of rest and a song of relief

Till the end of time

Till the end of time

Till the end of time