《The Funeral(Niagara Falls， May 4， 1952)》歌词

歌曲： The Funeral(Niagara Falls， May 4， 1952)

所属专辑：Hank Williams: The Lost Concerts: Limited Collector’s Edition

歌手： Hank Williams

时长： 04:33

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The Funeral - Hank Williams[00:00:00]

I was walking in Savannah past a church, decayed and dim[00:00:06]

When slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn[00:00:11]

And my sympathy awakened and a wonder quickly grew[00:00:16]

Til I found myself envied in a little colored pew[00:00:19]

Out front a colored couple sat in sorrow, nearly wild[00:00:24]

On the altar was a casket and in the casket was a child[00:00:28]

I could picture him while living, curly hair, protruding lips[00:00:33]

I’d seen perhaps a thousand in my hurried southern trips[00:00:38]

Rose a sad, old colored preacher from his little wooden desk[00:00:43]

With a manner sorta awkward, and countenance grotesque[00:00:47]

The simplicity and shrewdness in his Ethiopian face[00:00:52]

Showed the wisdom and ignorance of a crushed[00:00:56]

Undying race[00:01:00]

And he said[00:01:02]

Now don’t be weeping for this pretty bit of clay[00:01:04]

For the little boy who lived there has done gone and run away[00:01:08]

He was doing very finely and he appreciates your love[00:01:13]

But his shore nuff father wanted him in the big house up above[00:01:18]

The lord didn't give you that baby, by no hundred thousand miles[00:01:23]

He just thought you need some sunshine[00:01:28]

And he lent it for awhile[00:01:30]

And he let you keep and love it[00:01:33]

Til your hearts were bigger grown[00:01:35]

And these silver tears you're shedding[00:01:38]

Now is just interest on the loan[00:01:40]

Just think, my poor dear mourners[00:01:44]

Creeping long on sorrows life’s way[00:01:46]

What a blessed picnic this here baby got today[00:01:49]

Your good fathers and good mothers crowd the little fellow round[00:01:54]

In the angel's tender garden of the big plantation ground[00:01:58]

And his eyes they brightly sparkle at the pretty things he viewed[00:02:04]

But a tear came, and he whispered, I want my parents, too[00:02:09]

But then the angel's chief musicians teach that little boy a song[00:02:15]

Says if only they be faithful they'll soon be coming long[00:02:20]

So, my poor detached mourners, let your hearts with Jesus rest[00:02:25]

And don't go to criticizing the one what knows the best[00:02:30]

He have give us many comforts, he's got the right to take away[00:02:36]

To the lord be praised in glory, forever, let us pray[00:02:41]