《Outside the Nashville City Limits》歌词

[00:00:01] Outside the Nashville city limits

[00:00:04] A friend and I did drive on a day in early winter

[00:00:08] I was glad to be alive

[00:00:11] We went to see some friends of

[00:00:14] His who lived upon a farm

[00:00:18] Strange and gentle country folk

[00:00:20] Who would wish nobody harm

[00:00:24] Fresh-cut sixty acres

[00:00:26] Eight cows in the barn

[00:00:30] But the thing that I remember

[00:00:34] On that cold day in December

[00:00:39] Was that my eyes they did brim over

[00:00:44] As we talked

[00:00:50] In the slowest drawl I had ever heard

[00:00:52] The man said "Come with me if y'all wanna see

[00:00:57] The prettiest place in all of Tennessee"

[00:01:00] He poured us each a glass of wine

[00:01:02] And a-walking we did go

[00:01:06] Along fallen leaves and crackling ice

[00:01:08] Where a tiny brook did flow

[00:01:12] He knew every inch of the land

[00:01:14] And Lord he loved it so

[00:01:18] But the thing that I remember

[00:01:23] On that cold day in December

[00:01:27] Was that my eyes were brimming over

[00:01:32] As we walked

[00:01:38] He set my down upon a stone

[00:01:40] Beside a running spring

[00:01:43] He talked in a voice so soft and clear

[00:01:45] Like the waters I heard sing

[00:01:47] He said "We searched quite a time

[00:01:50] For a place to call our own

[00:01:54] There was just me and Mary John

[00:01:56] And now I guess we're home"

[00:02:00] I looked at the ground and wondered

[00:02:02] How many years they each had roamed

[00:02:06] And Lord I do remember

[00:02:10] On that day in late December

[00:02:15] How my eyes kept brimming over

[00:02:20] As we talked

[00:02:25] As we walked

[00:02:30] And standing there with outstretched arms

[00:02:33] He said to me "You know

[00:02:35] I can't wait till the heavy storms

[00:02:38] Cover the ground with snow"

[00:02:40] "And there on the pond the watercress

[00:02:43] Is all that don't turn white

[00:02:46] When the sun is high you squint your eyes

[00:02:49] And look at the hills so bright"

[00:02:52] And nodding his head my friend said

[00:02:55] "And it seems like overnight

[00:02:58] That the leaves come out so tender

[00:03:03] At the turning of the winter"

[00:03:08] I thought the skies they would brim over

[00:03:12] As we talked