《Dear Mrs.》歌词

[00:00:01] Dear Mrs - Johnny Cash

[00:00:04] Dear Mrs though we've never met I know very much about you

[00:00:10] I know that you've got hair that shines like the morning sun

[00:00:14] You've got eyes that hold the blueness of the sky

[00:00:17] And of the deepest sea on a clear day and a smile that has a sparkle of a diamond

[00:00:23] I know that because I've heard him say those things about you

[00:00:29] These're the thoughts and the words of a man

[00:00:32] Who spent many heart breaking years behind prison walls

[00:00:34] The father of your children the man who worshipped the very ground that you walk on

[00:00:42] He had a picture of you Mrs it was old and faded and torn

[00:00:47] But you could tell at a glance that he never exaggerated in his thoughts and visions

[00:00:51] He never left his cell without first checking to see if he had your picture with him

[00:00:59] He was a young man when he first came to prison

[00:01:02] And he talked a great deal about you but as the years passed he talked less and less

[00:01:08] And during his last year here I don't believe he ever said a word to anybody

[00:01:14] He had the appearance of a man much older than he really was

[00:01:21] He walked with his head down and his shoulders saggin'

[00:01:25] And the walk itself seemed to take a great deal of effort

[00:01:31] He never received a letter or had a visitor while he was here in prison

[00:01:37] But never did he stop looking and waitin'

[00:01:40] Every day at mail call you could see him standing close to his bars

[00:01:44] With the look of a child awaiting a reward

[00:01:48] Even after the mailman had passed his cell his pleading eyes would follow beggin'

[00:01:52] As always he'd feel of his shirt pocket and then just stand there

[00:02:00] Staring at the emptiness and as always I could somehow feel the lumb in his throat

[00:02:07] And the burning in his eyes you know Mrs like just before you start to cry

[00:02:13] Well I thought you might like to know that they buried his body today

[00:02:17] Just outside the prison walls

[00:02:19] They buried him there because nobody cared enough to claim his body

[00:02:23] You know there was even a couple of old convicts there that actually cried

[00:02:28] No not because they cared for him but for what he died from they cared for

[00:02:33] Loneliness every prisoner knows loneliness but some know it more than others

[00:02:40] The man that they buried today had died many times

[00:02:44] Every day he waited hopin' and prayin' for a letter or a card

[00:02:48] Or just a note or anything to let him know that somewhere out there

[00:02:52] Somebody cared for him

[00:02:54] That assurance never came and today he died Mrs

[00:02:59] He died from loneliness starved for love a love that nobody ever wanted

[00:03:05] You see no man woman or child is immune to the need of love or to be loved

[00:03:12] No matter how terrible his crime might have been

[00:03:15] The death he died from today was more inhuman

[00:03:20] But his suffering is over now and he's resting in a pauper's grave in a prison suit

[00:03:26] And in his pocket is an old torn and faded picture of yes of you Mrs