The Thinking Man, John Henry - The Brothers Four.mp3

[00:00.00] 作词 : Gibson/Camp
[00:00.00] 作曲 : Gibson/Camp
[00:00.00]Now a famous American folktale
[00:09.27]When John Henry was a little baby
[00:12.74]he was sittin’ on his mammy’s knee
[00:16.53]well He picked up a slide rule and a book on mathematics
[00:19.98]sayin’, “Thinkin’s gonna be the job for me”
[00:23.76]sayin’, “Thinkin’s gonna be the job for me”
[00:33.50]When John Henry was just a little baby
[00:35.77]He decided when grew he was gonna be a thinkin’ man
[00:38.79]With a filter
[00:41.81]So he decided to go to college
[00:43.25]and study all about thinkin’
[00:46.10]He did and he learned all about
[00:47.93]algebry and thinkin’
[00:51.50]Geometry and thinkin’
[00:54.37]Trigonometry and thinkin’
[00:58.19]Calculus and thinkin’
[01:01.60]He always had trouble with English, though
[01:04.44]Grammer’s gonna be the death of me, Lord Lord
[01:08.90]Grammer’s gonna be the death of me
[01:12.48]He didn’t do too well in Greek either
[01:14.50]Homer’s gonna be the death of me, Lord Lord
[01:17.45]Homer’s gonna be the death of me
[01:21.16]Well John Henry finished college
[01:23.84]and became a very competent thinker
[01:25.31]Which is unusual
[01:26.73]And he went out into the business world where they do a lot of heavy thinkin’
[01:30.67]And got a job as a thinkin’ man
[01:31.49]Well this first job was with the John Burch Society,
[01:36.59]thinkin’ up communists .
[01:47.70]He had a little trouble with his next job though
[01:50.24]that was with the Ford Motor company, ha ha
[01:53.14]He thought up the etso
[01:58.54]Then John Henry got a job with the CIA
[02:01.36]Thinkin up excuses
[02:06.16]As you all know, the government is very economy minded
[02:11.36]Concerned with cuttin’ down on costs
[02:14.60]So one day, the CIA brought in an efficiency expert.
[02:17.19]Tryin to cut down on man power.
[02:20.60]He looked around and hollered out
[02:22.39]“Automation!”
[02:23.80]“Automation!”
[02:24.80]“Automation!”
[02:26.21]Now the experts said to John henry
[02:29.53]I’m gonna’ to bring me a computer ‘round
[02:33.24]I’m gonna’ to bring me a computer and electronic brain
[02:36.91]Cybernetics’ gonna’ put the answer down
[02:40.87]Computers help to keep the pay roll down
[02:44.33]Now the man who invented the computer,
[02:47.82]was from a place called MIT
[02:51.45]Well he punched out cards
[02:53.32]and tapes by the yards,
[02:55.18]on the nearer, my God to thee
[02:58.88]on the nearer, my God to thee
[03:06.80]Now John Henry said to the inventor,
[03:10.28]“oh your tubes don’t mean a damn
[03:14.00]All your wires and your circuits,
[03:15.89]they are just a modern quirk
[03:17.59]It’s never ever gonna’ beat a thinkin’ man
[03:21.38]They are never gonna’ beat the thinkin’ man
[03:25.46]So it was proposed that John Henry and the computer have a race
[03:29.40]The inventor punched out a card for the computer
[03:31.70]John Henry stepped into the isolation booth
[03:35.36]Ralph Edwards read him a question
[03:38.50]And the race was on
[03:40.18]John Henry started a thinkin’
[03:43.35]til’ his head glowed cherry red
[03:46.66]there was smoke from his ears and his eyes poured tears
[03:50.50]and he thunk til’ his brain dropped dead
[03:51.98]think, thank, thunk
[03:53.92]til’ his brain dropped dead.
[04:01.89]They took John Henry to the bughouse
[04:09.80]But still his legend grows.
[04:17.83]Now please don’t get us wrong,
[04:23.23]there’s a moral to this song,
[04:29.42]don’t ever doubt the thinkin’ power of men
[04:34.92]But, on the other hand,
[04:37.71]don’t ever sell your stock in IBM