《John Doe No. 24*(Album Version)》歌词

[00:00:00] Songs Title：john doe no 24

[00:00:06] Artist by: Mary Chapin Carpenter

[00:00:21] I was standing on this sidewalk in 1945 in jacksonville illinois

[00:00:32] When asked what my name was there came no reply

[00:00:36] They said i was a deaf and sightless half-wit boy

[00:00:42] But lewis was my name though i could not say it

[00:00:47] I was born and raised in new orleans

[00:00:52] My spirit was wild so i let the river take it

[00:00:57] On a barge and a prayer upstream

[00:01:03] They searched for a mother and they searched for a father

[00:01:08] And they searched'til they searched no more

[00:01:13] The doctors put to rest their scientific test

[00:01:17] And they named me john doe no 24

[00:01:24] And they all shook their heads in pity

[00:01:28] For a world so silent and dark

[00:01:34] Well there's no doubt that life's a mystery

[00:01:39] But so too is the human heart

[00:01:43] And it was my heart's own perfume

[00:01:46] When the crape jasmine bloomed on st charles avenue

[00:01:55] Though i couldn't hear the bells of the streetcars coming

[00:02:00] By toeing the track i knew

[00:02:05] And if i were an old man returning

[00:02:10] With my satchel and pork pie hat

[00:02:16] I'd hit every jazz joint on bourbon

[00:02:20] And i'd hit every one on basin after that

[00:03:08] The years kept passing as they passed me around

[00:03:12] From one state ward to another

[00:03:17] Like i was an orphaned shoe from the lost and found

[00:03:23] Always missing the other

[00:03:28] They gave me a harp last christmas

[00:03:33] And all the nurses took a dance

[00:03:39] Lately i've been growing listless

[00:03:44] Been dreaming again of the past

[00:03:48] I'm wandering down to the banks of the great big muddy

[00:03:54] Where the shotgun houses stand

[00:03:59] I am seven years old and i feel my daddy

[00:04:05] Reach out for my hand

[00:04:10] While i drew breath no one missed me

[00:04:15] So they won't on the day that i cease

[00:04:21] Put a sprig of crape jasmine with me

[00:04:25] To remind me of new orleans

[00:04:31] I was standing on this sidewalk in 1945 in jacksonville illinois