Kategorie: Cash, Johnny

The Man Comes Around

Interpret/autor: Johnny Cash / Johnny Cash 

Rec.: And I heard as it were the noise of thunder, 
      One of the four beasts saying: 'Come and see' 
      and I saw, and behold a white horse 
 
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There's a man   goin' round   takin' names 
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And he decides  who to free  and who to blame 
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Everybody won't be treated  all the same 
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There'll be a golden ladder reaching down 
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When the Man comes around 
 
 
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The hairs on your arm will stand up 
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At the terror  in his sip  and in his sup 
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Will you partake of that last offered cup 
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Or disappear into the potters' ground 
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When the Man comes around 
 
 
 
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  Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers 
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  Onehundred million angels singing 
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  Multitudes are marching to the big cattle drum 
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  Voices calling voices crying 
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  Some are born and some of dying 
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  It's Alpha and Omega's kingdome come. 
 
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  And the whirlwind is in the thorntree 
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  And the virgins are all trimming their wicks 
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  The whirlwind is in the thorntree 
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  It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks 
 
 
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'Till armageddon no shalam no shalome 
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Then the father-hen will call his chickens home 
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The wise men will bow down before the throne 
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And at his feet they'll cast their golden crowns 
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When the Man comes around 
 
 
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Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still 
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Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still 
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Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still 
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Listen to the words long written down 
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When the Man comes around 
 
 
 
 
 
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  In measured hundredweight and pennypound 
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  When the Man comes around. 
 
 
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Rec.: And I heard a voice amidst of the four beasts, 
      and I looked and behold a pale horse and his name 
      that sat on him was death, and hell followed with him.