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[ti:Sing Joy Spring (LP Version)]
[ar:曼哈顿行者爵士]
[al:The Manhattan Transfer Anthology - Down In Birdland]
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[00:00.570]We sing a spring
[00:01.690]Sing joy spring
[00:02.849]A rare and most mysterious spring
[00:04.789]This most occulting
[00:06.739]Is buried deep in the soul
[00:10.429]It's story never has been told
[00:12.749]The joy spring the fountain of pleasure
[00:16.289]Is deep inside you whether you're digging it or not
[00:18.619]Once you're aware of this spring
[00:20.809]You'll know that it's the greatest
[00:22.129]Treasure you've got
[00:23.359]And furthermore
[00:24.299]The joy spring the bounteous treasure
[00:28.249]Cannot be bartered away and never
[00:29.609]Can be sold
[00:30.479]Nothing can take it from you
[00:32.779]It's yours and yours alone to have
[00:34.019]And to hold
[00:35.619]And something more:
[00:36.688]It never is lost to fire or theft
[00:38.618]It's always around
[00:39.118]When trouble is gone the pleasure
[00:41.078]Is left I've always found
[00:42.538]It's burglar-proof same as the treasure
[00:44.288]Man lays up in heaven worth a
[00:45.768]Price no one can measure
[00:47.597]That says a lot
[00:48.417]So joy spring this fountain of pleasure
[00:52.157]That's deep inside you let me inform
[00:53.307]You in all truth
[00:54.027]Ponce de Leon sought this
[00:56.877]When he was searching for the fountain of youth
[00:58.567]Oh Ponce de Leon laughed so much he
[01:00.487]Never did find the magic fountain
[01:04.037]But many people with a well-adjusted
[01:05.397]Spirit they could hear it when you told
[01:07.697]Them it was there telling them was
[01:09.087]Like telling it on the mountain
[01:12.227]It's quite a life having the gift oflaughter
[01:14.487]I'm a man who knows in a minute
[01:16.547]I can tell you just exactly how the story goes
[01:20.987]It involves a firm conviction in another
[01:22.417]Previous life giving your mind a chance to fly
[01:25.837]Fly around the universe investigating other
[01:27.097]Galaxies certain other subtle
[01:28.227]Types of life trying dig it getting
[01:29.917]Pretty well-acquainted with a lot of
[01:30.857]Other strife an pretty much acquiring
[01:31.717]Yourself plenty of education
[01:33.147]Pretty soon here comes earth birth
[01:36.857]And then you're ready to put it all the work
[01:40.466]But soon as you're finished being born
[01:41.856]You start forgetting what you knew
[01:43.346]'Cause you're another kinda you - a
[01:44.796]Reincarnation manifestation
[01:45.336]Of spirit in sensation
[01:48.126]You're really got that right
[01:50.316]The average person isn't bright
[01:52.006]Not so bright that they recall the fatal fall
[01:54.956]Down here this earth
[01:56.446]Their minds disguise their death to spirit
[01:57.766]Life and call it birth
[01:59.696]That's their reason for forgetting and they
[02:01.656]Find it very upsetting when reminded
[02:04.076]Tell them they've lived before
[02:05.146]They'll show you the nearest open door
[02:06.826]Gotta have feeling while dealing with
[02:07.816]Walkers in their sleep
[02:09.156]They can't imagine something as deep
[02:10.586]Here they come here they come there they are
[02:11.776]Unimaginative and ignorant of falling from a star
[02:13.776]Here they come there they are there they go
[02:14.986]Life is over in a minute an' they never dug
[02:16.306]It in it or enjoy a minute of it
[02:17.516]'Cause they put too much above it
[02:18.396]That was gross
[02:18.806]Something that was worth a couple bucks
[02:19.796]At mos
[02:20.636]So there is the reason that the maker of man
[02:23.896]Included there in his plan
[02:25.436]A certain fountain deep with in
[02:27.036]Where there was laughter youth 'n gold
[02:28.736]For human beings that haven't hold
[02:30.016]Share the memory of where we've all been
[02:33.645]Brothers called Grimm knew chances were slim
[02:36.005]Anybody would dig that the human soul
[02:38.275]Was Snow White
[02:39.585]And the Seven Dwarfs were seven tempers in man
[02:42.095]Whose digging out the gold completes the plan
[02:44.765]An Bacon was hip that Shakespeare
[02:46.065]Couldn't read
[02:47.105]And so he gave him all the rhymes
[02:48.945]That have lasted through the years
[02:49.915]And kept eternal truths alive through
[02:51.765]Several centuries
[02:53.165]That's how we know them now
[02:55.395]They lasted cause they're true
[02:56.995]What was it from MacBeth
[02:58.155]Life's but a walking shadow a player poor
[03:00.825]That struts and frets upon the stage
[03:02.855]And seen no more
[03:03.875]A tale that truly has an idiotic ring
[03:06.745]That's full of lots of sound and fury
[03:08.325]Signifying nothing '
[03:11.294]That's right signifying nothing
[03:13.494]I'll repeat it Nothing
[03:14.694]Don't forget it - Nothing
[03:16.904]And that's the reason for that spring of joy
[03:18.864]That the Father put inside of every
[03:20.184]Single girl and boy
[05:04.968]Show time Everyone's on
[05:06.908]Let's hit the stage
[05:07.978]It's show time everyone an' proceed
[05:10.178]To act your age
[05:17.007]Whatever you're frowning at is funny
[05:18.447]Enough laughing
[05:18.807]So you're wasting all your humor on a frown
[05:21.047]While you're bringing your spirit down
[05:28.486]You gotta book yourself a comic in your act
[05:31.686]Without some laughter life's a maudlin
[05:33.276]Farce 'n that's a fact
[05:39.896]Once you know about the spring you always can smile
[05:42.325]It becomes your one expression
[05:43.625]And you're always wearing it like the
[05:45.065]Buddhas do
[05:55.965]We sing a spring
[05:57.065]Sing joy spring
[05:58.265]A rare and most mysterious spring
[06:00.264]This most occulting
[06:02.064]Is buried deep in the soul
[06:05.524]It's story never has been told
[06:07.854]The joy spring the fountain of pleasure
[06:11.594]Is deep inside you whether you're digging it or not
[06:14.054]Once you're aware of this spring
[06:16.454]You'll know that it's the greatest
[06:17.704]Treasure you've got
[06:19.044]And furthermore
[06:19.824]The joy spring the bounteous treasure
[06:23.474]Cannot be bartered away and never
[06:25.043]Can be sold
[06:25.873]Nothing can take it from you
[06:28.073]It's yours and yours alone to have
[06:29.623]And to hold
[06:30.882]And something more:
[06:31.342]It never is lost to fire or theft
[06:33.832]It's always around
[06:34.642]When trouble is gone the pleasure
[06:35.992]Is left I've always found
[06:37.912]It's burglar-proof same as the treasure
[06:39.512]Man lays up in heaven worth a
[06:41.172]Price no one can measure
[06:42.632]That says a lot
[06:43.652]So joy spring this fountain of pleasure
[06:47.272]That's deep inside you let me inform
[06:49.022]You in all truth
[06:50.642]Ponce de Leon sought this
[06:51.532]When he was searching
[06:52.542]For the fountain of youth
[06:54.542]I say in truth he sought a magical thing
[06:58.001]For he was searching
[06:58.861]For the joy spring