《The Funeral(Niagara Falls， May 4， 1952)》歌词

[00:00:00] The Funeral - Hank Williams

[00:00:06] I was walking in Savannah past a church, decayed and dim

[00:00:11] When slowly through the window came a plaintive funeral hymn

[00:00:16] And my sympathy awakened and a wonder quickly grew

[00:00:19] Til I found myself envied in a little colored pew

[00:00:24] Out front a colored couple sat in sorrow, nearly wild

[00:00:28] On the altar was a casket and in the casket was a child

[00:00:33] I could picture him while living, curly hair, protruding lips

[00:00:38] I’d seen perhaps a thousand in my hurried southern trips

[00:00:43] Rose a sad, old colored preacher from his little wooden desk

[00:00:47] With a manner sorta awkward, and countenance grotesque

[00:00:52] The simplicity and shrewdness in his Ethiopian face

[00:00:56] Showed the wisdom and ignorance of a crushed

[00:01:00] Undying race

[00:01:02] And he said

[00:01:04] Now don’t be weeping for this pretty bit of clay

[00:01:08] For the little boy who lived there has done gone and run away

[00:01:13] He was doing very finely and he appreciates your love

[00:01:18] But his shore nuff father wanted him in the big house up above

[00:01:23] The lord didn't give you that baby, by no hundred thousand miles

[00:01:28] He just thought you need some sunshine

[00:01:30] And he lent it for awhile

[00:01:33] And he let you keep and love it

[00:01:35] Til your hearts were bigger grown

[00:01:38] And these silver tears you're shedding

[00:01:40] Now is just interest on the loan

[00:01:44] Just think, my poor dear mourners

[00:01:46] Creeping long on sorrows life’s way

[00:01:49] What a blessed picnic this here baby got today

[00:01:54] Your good fathers and good mothers crowd the little fellow round

[00:01:58] In the angel's tender garden of the big plantation ground

[00:02:04] And his eyes they brightly sparkle at the pretty things he viewed

[00:02:09] But a tear came, and he whispered, I want my parents, too

[00:02:15] But then the angel's chief musicians teach that little boy a song

[00:02:20] Says if only they be faithful they'll soon be coming long

[00:02:25] So, my poor detached mourners, let your hearts with Jesus rest

[00:02:30] And don't go to criticizing the one what knows the best

[00:02:36] He have give us many comforts, he's got the right to take away

[00:02:41] To the lord be praised in glory, forever, let us pray