《The Funeral》歌词

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

[00:00:00] Written by：Rose

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

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

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

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

[00:00:24] Out front a colored couple sat and sorrowed yet a while

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

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

[00:00:37] Why I'd seen perhaps a thousand in my hurried southern trips

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

[00:00:47] With a manner sort of awkward and countenance grotesque

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

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

[00:01:02] And he said now don't be weepin' for this pretty bit of clay

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

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

[00:01:17] But his shore 'nough father wanted him in the big house up above

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

[00:01:28] He just thought you need some sunshine and he lent it for a while

[00:01:33] And he let you keep and love it 'til your hearts were bigger grown

[00:01:38] And these silver tears you're shedding now is just interest on the loan

[00:01:43] Just think my poor dear mourners creeping long on sorrow's way

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

[00:01:53] Your good fathers and good mothers crowd the little fella round

[00:01:58] While the angels tend the garden of the big plantation ground

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

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

[00:02:14] Then the angel's chief musicians teach that little boy a song

[00:02:19] Says if only they be faithful they'll soon be comin' long

[00:02:24] So my poor dear mourners let your hearts with Jesus rest

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

[00:02:35] He has give us many comforts he's got the right to take away

[00:02:41] To the Lord be praise and glory forever let us pray