The Man Comes Around Lyrics

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The Man Comes Around Lyrics by Johnny Cash

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There's a man going around taking names   
And he decides who to free and who to blame   
Everybody won't be treated all the same   
There'll be a golden ladder reaching down   
When the Man comes around   
   
The hairs on your arm will stand up   
At the terror in each sip and in each sup   
Will you partake of that last offered cup?   
Or disappear into the potter's ground   
When the Man comes around   
   
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers   
One hundred million angels singing   
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum   
Voices calling, voices crying   
Some are born and some are dying   
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come   
   
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree   
The virgins are all trimming their wicks   
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree   
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks   
   
Till Armageddon no shalam, no shalom   
Then the father hen will call his chickens home   
The wise man will bow down before the thrown   
And at His feet they'll cast their golden crowns   
When the Man comes around   
   
Whoever is unjust let him be unjust still   
Whoever is righteous let him be righteous still   
Whoever is filthy let him be filthy still   
Listen to the words long written down   
When the Man comes around   
   
Hear the trumpets, hear the pipers   
One hundred million angels singing   
Multitudes are marching to the big kettledrum   
Voices calling and voices crying   
Some are born and some are dying   
It's Alpha and Omega's kingdom come   
   
And the whirlwind is in the thorn tree   
The virgins are all trimming their wicks   
The whirlwind is in the thorn tree   
It's hard for thee to kick against the pricks   
   
In measured hundred weight and penny pound   
When the Man comes around.   
 
And I heard a voice in amidst the four beasts 
And I looked and behold a pale horse 
And the name it said on him was Death 
And hell followed with him

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