《Simple Joys》歌词

[00:00:00] Simple Joys - Ben Vereen

[00:00:06] Sweet summer evenings,

[00:00:08] hot wine and bread

[00:00:11] Sharing your supper,

[00:00:13] sharing your bed

[00:00:16] Simple joys

[00:00:17] have a simple voice:

[00:00:19] It says why not go ahead?

[00:00:21] Wouldn't you rather

[00:00:22] be a left-handed flea

[00:00:24] A crab on a slab

[00:00:26] at the bottom of the sea

[00:00:27] Than a man who

[00:00:28] never learns how to be free

[00:00:30] Not 'til he's cold and dead

[00:00:36] Well I'll sing you

[00:00:37] the story of a sorrowful lad

[00:00:38] Had everything he wanted,

[00:00:40] didn't want what he had

[00:00:41] He had wealth and pelf

[00:00:42] and fame and name and all of

[00:00:44] That noise

[00:00:44] But he didn't have

[00:00:45] none of those simple joys

[00:00:47] His life seemed

[00:00:48] purposeless and flat

[00:00:52] Aren't you glad

[00:00:53] you don't feel like that?

[00:00:57] So he ran from all

[00:00:58] the deeds he'd done, he ran

[00:01:00] Things he'd just begun

[00:01:00] He ran from himself,

[00:01:01] now that's mighty far to run

[00:01:03] Out into the country

[00:01:04] where he played as a boy

[00:01:05] He knew he had to

[00:01:06] find him some simple joys

[00:01:08] He wanted someplace

[00:01:10] warm and green

[00:01:14] We all could use

[00:01:15] a change of scene

[00:01:22] Sweet summer evenings

[00:01:24] so full of sound

[00:01:27] Gaining a lover,

[00:01:29] you're gaining a pound

[00:01:32] Simple joys have a simple voice

[00:01:35] that say take a look around

[00:01:37] And wouldn't you

[00:01:38] rather be a left-handed flea

[00:01:40] A crab on a slab

[00:01:42] at the bottom of the sea

[00:01:43] A newt on the

[00:01:44] root of a banded tree

[00:01:46] Than a man that

[00:01:47] never learns how to be free

[00:01:48] Not 'til he's underground

[00:01:55] Sweet summer evenings,

[00:01:57] sapphire skies

[00:02:00] Feasting her belly

[00:02:03] You're Feasting your eyes

[00:02:05] Simple joys have a simple voice:

[00:02:08] It says time's a living prize

[00:02:10] And wouldn't you

[00:02:11] Rather be a left-handed flea

[00:02:14] A crab on a slab

[00:02:15] at the bottom of the sea

[00:02:16] A newt on the root

[00:02:17] of a banyan tree

[00:02:19] Or a fig on

[00:02:20] a twig in Galilee

[00:02:21] Than a man who never

[00:02:23] learns how to be free

[00:02:24] Not till the day

[00:02:25] Not till the day

[00:02:26] Not till the day

[00:02:27] Not till the day dies!

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