[00:00.00]The Masterpiece (Album Version) - Johnny Cash (约翰尼·卡什)
[00:17.85]There was an old stone-cutter
[00:19.58]Who lived in a cabin on the mountain side
[00:22.95]And the old stone-cutter
[00:24.17]Knew it won't be long before he died
[00:27.98]And all around his cabin were statues the man had made
[00:32.45]Statues that the buyers said were all of a mediocre grade
[00:37.77]With his calloused hands he lit
[00:39.64]A lamp and laid down his head on his handmade table
[00:43.44]And he softly whispered Lord
[00:45.59]I'm old and shaky and I'm hardly able
[00:49.34]But give me strenght and wisdom
[00:51.91]And give me a week at least
[00:54.30]And I'll climb up to the top
[00:56.02]Of this mountain and chisel out a masterpiece
[01:00.58]The very next morning he felt new strenght
[01:02.96]And he took his brand
[01:04.34]New hammer and the sharpest chisel
[01:06.49]He began to climb the mountain
[01:08.67]His old feet slipping in the freezing dizzle
[01:11.86]When he finally reached the
[01:13.15]Top he shouted to a world that didn't hear
[01:16.90]I'll carve my masterpiece out of this marble boulder here
[01:22.45]So the hammer beat the
[01:23.73]Chisel and he hammered till an image grew
[01:28.07]Then he stopped to look it
[01:29.32]Over to appraise his work when he was through
[01:33.06]It was a boy carrying a crippled
[01:35.29]Boy and the old man said it isn't my masterpiece
[01:39.92]I'll call it charity and then a masterpiece of mine will be
[01:45.28]So the hammer beat the chisel
[01:47.31]Til another immage in a marbel grew
[01:50.25]Then the wind began to blowing
[01:52.37]And he sat and rested when he was through
[01:55.67]It was the image of a mother holding her child
[01:59.64]He said this is love as the world would know
[02:02.56]But it isn't my masterpiece and he began again as it began to snow
[02:10.07]The hammer beat the chisel as
[02:12.52]The snow fell harder and the wind grew and grew
[02:15.50]He fell to his knees holding a
[02:17.62]Stone and he threw down his hammer and his chisel too
[02:21.97]He lay frozen face down in
[02:23.77]The snow but one hand was held for the world to see
[02:28.27]Cut in the marble was his
[02:30.34]Masterpice three neatly carved letters G O D