歌曲 | John Philip Griffith |
歌手 | Nanci Griffith |
专辑 | There's a Light Beyond These Woods |
下载 | Image LRC TXT |
作词 : Griffith | |
He was a simple man only to a stranger. | |
And the kindness in his eyes | |
I still remember. | |
Now that he is old, | |
they say he's angry and he's cold, | |
That his soul is dying. | |
He's a wealthy man's dream, | |
and he's a working man's dime. | |
He has stood in both men's shoes | |
in his own damn time. | |
The hard times of the thirties | |
still linger in his mind | |
When he is lonely. | |
He's out there in the cold, | |
twenty years away from home. | |
Does he dream about his old home | |
in San Antone? | |
He's often watched the highways, | |
but he's a man of sixty-five. | |
Where ain't a soul in El Paso | |
who would give an old drunk a ride. | |
Now, he traded in his draftsman's pen | |
for a fishing pole. | |
And his mansion on the hill | |
is an alley in El Paso. | |
The anchors of the fifties | |
still hold to broken dreams | |
When his sorrows grow. | |
He's out there in the cold, | |
twenty years away from home. | |
Does he dream about his old home | |
in San Antone? | |
He's often watched the highways, | |
but he's a man of sixty-five. | |
There ain't a soul in El Paso | |
who would give an old drunk a ride. | |
Now, they tell me that John Philip | |
loved to gamble in his day. | |
And he burned his bridges well | |
when he walked away. | |
He closed those corporate doors, | |
left his children and his home . . . | |
Now no one owns him. |
zuo ci : Griffith | |
He was a simple man only to a stranger. | |
And the kindness in his eyes | |
I still remember. | |
Now that he is old, | |
they say he' s angry and he' s cold, | |
That his soul is dying. | |
He' s a wealthy man' s dream, | |
and he' s a working man' s dime. | |
He has stood in both men' s shoes | |
in his own damn time. | |
The hard times of the thirties | |
still linger in his mind | |
When he is lonely. | |
He' s out there in the cold, | |
twenty years away from home. | |
Does he dream about his old home | |
in San Antone? | |
He' s often watched the highways, | |
but he' s a man of sixtyfive. | |
Where ain' t a soul in El Paso | |
who would give an old drunk a ride. | |
Now, he traded in his draftsman' s pen | |
for a fishing pole. | |
And his mansion on the hill | |
is an alley in El Paso. | |
The anchors of the fifties | |
still hold to broken dreams | |
When his sorrows grow. | |
He' s out there in the cold, | |
twenty years away from home. | |
Does he dream about his old home | |
in San Antone? | |
He' s often watched the highways, | |
but he' s a man of sixtyfive. | |
There ain' t a soul in El Paso | |
who would give an old drunk a ride. | |
Now, they tell me that John Philip | |
loved to gamble in his day. | |
And he burned his bridges well | |
when he walked away. | |
He closed those corporate doors, | |
left his children and his home . . . | |
Now no one owns him. |
zuò cí : Griffith | |
He was a simple man only to a stranger. | |
And the kindness in his eyes | |
I still remember. | |
Now that he is old, | |
they say he' s angry and he' s cold, | |
That his soul is dying. | |
He' s a wealthy man' s dream, | |
and he' s a working man' s dime. | |
He has stood in both men' s shoes | |
in his own damn time. | |
The hard times of the thirties | |
still linger in his mind | |
When he is lonely. | |
He' s out there in the cold, | |
twenty years away from home. | |
Does he dream about his old home | |
in San Antone? | |
He' s often watched the highways, | |
but he' s a man of sixtyfive. | |
Where ain' t a soul in El Paso | |
who would give an old drunk a ride. | |
Now, he traded in his draftsman' s pen | |
for a fishing pole. | |
And his mansion on the hill | |
is an alley in El Paso. | |
The anchors of the fifties | |
still hold to broken dreams | |
When his sorrows grow. | |
He' s out there in the cold, | |
twenty years away from home. | |
Does he dream about his old home | |
in San Antone? | |
He' s often watched the highways, | |
but he' s a man of sixtyfive. | |
There ain' t a soul in El Paso | |
who would give an old drunk a ride. | |
Now, they tell me that John Philip | |
loved to gamble in his day. | |
And he burned his bridges well | |
when he walked away. | |
He closed those corporate doors, | |
left his children and his home . . . | |
Now no one owns him. |