Johnny Cash Here Was A Man Lyrics

Here Was A Man Lyrics

(Joy to the world the Lord is come) 



Here was a man a man who was
born in a small village the son of a peasant woman 



He grew up in
another small village 



Until he reached the age of thirty he
worked as a carpenter 



Then for three years he was a traveling
minister 



But he never traveled more than two hundred miles from
where he was born 



And where he did go he usually walked 



He never held political office he never wrote a book never bought a
home 



Never had a family he never went to college and he never set
foot inside a big city 



Yes here was a man 



Though he
never did one on the things usually associated with greatness 



He
had no credentials but himself he had nothing to do with this world 



Except through the devine purpose that brought him to this world 



While he was still a young man the tide of popular opinion turned against him




Most of his friends ran away one of them denied him 



One of them betrayed him and turned him over to his enemies 



Then he went through the mockery of a trial 



And was nailed to a
cross between two thieves 



And even while he was dying his
executioners gambled 



For the only piece of property that he had
in this world 



And that was his robe his purple robe 



When he was dead he was taken down from the cross 



And laid in a
borrowed grave provided by compassionate friends 



More than
nineteen centuries have come and gone 



And today he's a
centerpiece of the human race 



Our leader in the column to human
destiny 



I think I'm well within the mark when I say that all of
the armies that ever marched All of the navies that ever sailed the seas 



All of the legislative bodies that ever sat and all of the kings that
ever reigned 



All of them put together have not affected the life
of man on this earth 



So powerfully as that one solitary life 



Here was a man (joy to the world the Lord is come)