Here Was A Man

<p>[Verse 1]<br/>(Joy to the world, the Lord is come)<br/>Here was a man, a man<br/>Who was born in a small village<br/>The son of a peasant woman<br/>He grew up in another small village<br/>Until he reached the age of thirty<br/>He worked as a carpenter<br/><br/>[Verse 2]<br/>Then for three years<br/>He was a traveling minister<br/>But he never traveled more<br/>Than two hundred miles from<br/>Where he was born and<br/>Where he did go he usually walked<br/>[Verse 4]<br/>He never held political office<br/>He never wrote a book<br/>Never bought a home<br/>Never had a family<br/>He never went to college<br/>And he never set foot inside a big city<br/><br/>Yes, here was a man<br/><br/>[Verse 5]<br/>Though he never did one on the things<br/>Usually associated with greatness<br/>He had no credentials but himself<br/>He had nothing to do with this world<br/>Except through the divine purpose<br/>That brought him to this world<br/><br/>[Verse 6]<br/>While he was still a young man<br/>The tide of popular opinion turned against him<br/>Most of his friends ran away<br/>One of them denied him<br/>One of them betrayed him<br/>And turned him over to his enemies<br/>Then he went through the mockery of a trial<br/>[Verse 7]<br/>And was nailed to a cross between two thieves<br/>And even while he was dying<br/>His executioners gambled<br/>For the only piece of property<br/>That he had in this world<br/>And that was his robe his purple robe<br/><br/>[Verse 8]<br/>When he was dead<br/>He was taken down from the cross<br/>And laid in a borrowed grave<br/>Provided by compassionate friends<br/>More than nineteen centuries have come and gone<br/>And today he&#x27;s a centerpiece of the human race<br/>Our leader in the column to human destiny<br/><br/>[Verse 9]<br/>I think, I&#x27;m well within the mark when I say<br/>That all of the armies that ever marched<br/>All of the navies that ever sailed the seas<br/>All of the legislative bodies that ever sat<br/>And all of the kings that ever reigned<br/>All of them put together have not affected<br/>The life of man on this earth<br/>So powerfully as that one solitary life<br/>[Outro]<br/>Here was a man<br/>(Joy to the world, the Lord is come)