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(Joy to the world, the Lord is come) |
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Here was a man, a man |
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Who was born in a small village |
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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 |
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He worked as a carpenter |
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Then for three years |
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He was a traveling minister |
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But he never traveled more |
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Than two hundred miles from |
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Where he was born and |
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Where he did go he usually walked |
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He never held political office |
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He never wrote a book |
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Never bought a home |
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Never had a family |
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He never went to college |
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And he never set foot inside a big city |
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Yes, here was a man |
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Though he never did one on the things |
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Usually associated with greatness |
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He had no credentials but himself |
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He had nothing to do with this world |
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Except through the divine purpose |
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That brought him to this world |
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While he was still a young man |
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The tide of popular opinion turned against him |
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Most of his friends ran away |
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One of them denied him |
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One of them betrayed him |
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And turned him over to his enemies |
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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 |
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His executioners gambled |
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For the only piece of property |
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That he had in this world |
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And that was his robe his purple robe |
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When he was dead |
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He was taken down from the cross |
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And laid in a borrowed grave |
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Provided by compassionate friends |
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More than nineteen centuries have come and gone |
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And today he's a centerpiece of the human race |
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Our leader in the column to human destiny |
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I think, I'm well within the mark when |
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I sayThat all of the armies that ever marched |
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All of the navies that ever sailed the seas |
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All of the legislative bodies that ever sat |
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And all of the kings that ever reigned |
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All of them put together have not affected |
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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 the world, the Lord is come) |