Here Was A Man (Dialogue) (Background Music "Meditation"" By Bill Walker)" chords by Johnny Cash

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Verse 1
(Joy to the world
the Lord is come)
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Here was a man a man who was born in a small
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village the son of a peasant woman
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He grew up in another  small village
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Until he reached the age of thirty he
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worked as a carpenter
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Then for three years he was a traveling minister

Verse 2
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But he never traveled more than two hundred miles
from where he was born
And where he did go he
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usually walked
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He never held political of fice he never
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wrote a book never bought a home
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Never had

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Verse 3

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

Verse 4
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Except through the devine purpose
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that brought him to this world
While he was still a young man the tide of
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popular opinion turned against him
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Most of his friends ran away
one of them denied him
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One of them betrayed him and turned him
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over to his enemies

Verse 5
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Then he went
through the mockery of a trial
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And was nailed to a cross
between two thieves
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And even while he was dying
his executioners gambled
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For the only piece of prop
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erty that he had in this world

Verse 6
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And that was his robe
his purple robe
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When he was dead he was
taken down from the cross
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And laid in a borrowed grave provided by compassion
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ate friends
More than nineteen centuries
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have come and gone
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And today he's

Verse 7
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a centerpiece of the human race
Our leader in the column to
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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
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All of the legislative

Verse 8
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bodies that ever sat and all
of the kings that ever reigned
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All of them put together have not affected
the life of man on this earth
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So powerfully as that one
solitary life
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Here was a man (joy to
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the world the Lord is come)