Sing Joy Spring (LP Version)

Sing Joy Spring (LP Version) Lyrics

Song Sing Joy Spring (LP Version)
Artist The Manhattan Transfer
Album The Manhattan Transfer Anthology - Down In Birdland
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[00:00.57] We sing a spring
[00:01.69] Sing joy spring
[00:02.84] A rare and most mysterious spring
[00:04.78] This most occulting
[00:06.73] Is buried deep in the soul
[00:10.42] It's story never has been told
[00:12.74] The joy spring the fountain of pleasure
[00:16.28] Is deep inside you whether you're digging it or not
[00:18.61] Once you're aware of this spring
[00:20.80] You'll know that it's the greatest
[00:22.12] Treasure you've got
[00:23.35] And furthermore
[00:24.29] The joy spring the bounteous treasure
[00:28.24] Cannot be bartered away and never
[00:29.60] Can be sold
[00:30.47] Nothing can take it from you
[00:32.77] It's yours and yours alone to have
[00:34.01] And to hold
[00:35.61] And something more:
[00:36.68] It never is lost to fire or theft
[00:38.61] It's always around
[00:39.11] When trouble is gone the pleasure
[00:41.07] Is left I've always found
[00:42.53] It's burglar-proof same as the treasure
[00:44.28] Man lays up in heaven worth a
[00:45.76] Price no one can measure
[00:47.59] That says a lot
[00:48.41] So joy spring this fountain of pleasure
[00:52.15] That's deep inside you let me inform
[00:53.30] You in all truth
[00:54.02] Ponce de Leon sought this
[00:56.87] When he was searching for the fountain of youth
[00:58.56] Oh Ponce de Leon laughed so much he
[01:00.48] Never did find the magic fountain
[01:04.03] But many people with a well-adjusted
[01:05.39] Spirit they could hear it when you told
[01:07.69] Them it was there telling them was
[01:09.08] Like telling it on the mountain
[01:12.22] It's quite a life having the gift oflaughter
[01:14.48] I'm a man who knows in a minute
[01:16.54] I can tell you just exactly how the story goes
[01:20.98] It involves a firm conviction in another
[01:22.41] Previous life giving your mind a chance to fly
[01:25.83] Fly around the universe investigating other
[01:27.09] Galaxies certain other subtle
[01:28.22] Types of life trying dig it getting
[01:29.91] Pretty well-acquainted with a lot of
[01:30.85] Other strife an pretty much acquiring
[01:31.71] Yourself plenty of education
[01:33.14] Pretty soon here comes earth birth
[01:36.85] And then you're ready to put it all the work
[01:40.46] But soon as you're finished being born
[01:41.85] You start forgetting what you knew
[01:43.34] 'Cause you're another kinda you - a
[01:44.79] Reincarnation manifestation
[01:45.33] Of spirit in sensation
[01:48.12] You're really got that right
[01:50.31] The average person isn't bright
[01:52.00] Not so bright that they recall the fatal fall
[01:54.95] Down here this earth
[01:56.44] Their minds disguise their death to spirit
[01:57.76] Life and call it birth
[01:59.69] That's their reason for forgetting and they
[02:01.65] Find it very upsetting when reminded
[02:04.07] Tell them they've lived before
[02:05.14] They'll show you the nearest open door
[02:06.82] Gotta have feeling while dealing with
[02:07.81] Walkers in their sleep
[02:09.15] They can't imagine something as deep
[02:10.58] Here they come here they come there they are
[02:11.77] Unimaginative and ignorant of falling from a star
[02:13.77] Here they come there they are there they go
[02:14.98] Life is over in a minute an' they never dug
[02:16.30] It in it or enjoy a minute of it
[02:17.51] 'Cause they put too much above it
[02:18.39] That was gross
[02:18.80] Something that was worth a couple bucks
[02:19.79] At mos
[02:20.63] So there is the reason that the maker of man
[02:23.89] Included there in his plan
[02:25.43] A certain fountain deep with in
[02:27.03] Where there was laughter youth 'n gold
[02:28.73] For human beings that haven't hold
[02:30.01] Share the memory of where we've all been
[02:33.64] Brothers called Grimm knew chances were slim
[02:36.00] Anybody would dig that the human soul
[02:38.27] Was Snow White
[02:39.58] And the Seven Dwarfs were seven tempers in man
[02:42.09] Whose digging out the gold completes the plan
[02:44.76] An Bacon was hip that Shakespeare
[02:46.06] Couldn't read
[02:47.10] And so he gave him all the rhymes
[02:48.94] That have lasted through the years
[02:49.91] And kept eternal truths alive through
[02:51.76] Several centuries
[02:53.16] That's how we know them now
[02:55.39] They lasted cause they're true
[02:56.99] What was it from MacBeth
[02:58.15] Life's but a walking shadow a player poor
[03:00.82] That struts and frets upon the stage
[03:02.85] And seen no more
[03:03.87] A tale that truly has an idiotic ring
[03:06.74] That's full of lots of sound and fury
[03:08.32] Signifying nothing '
[03:11.29] That's right signifying nothing
[03:13.49] I'll repeat it Nothing
[03:14.69] Don't forget it - Nothing
[03:16.90] And that's the reason for that spring of joy
[03:18.86] That the Father put inside of every
[03:20.18] Single girl and boy
[05:04.96] Show time Everyone's on
[05:06.90] Let's hit the stage
[05:07.97] It's show time everyone an' proceed
[05:10.17] To act your age
[05:17.00] Whatever you're frowning at is funny
[05:18.44] Enough laughing
[05:18.80] So you're wasting all your humor on a frown
[05:21.04] While you're bringing your spirit down
[05:28.48] You gotta book yourself a comic in your act
[05:31.68] Without some laughter life's a maudlin
[05:33.27] Farce 'n that's a fact
[05:39.89] Once you know about the spring you always can smile
[05:42.32] It becomes your one expression
[05:43.62] And you're always wearing it like the
[05:45.06] Buddhas do
[05:55.96] We sing a spring
[05:57.06] Sing joy spring
[05:58.26] A rare and most mysterious spring
[06:00.26] This most occulting
[06:02.06] Is buried deep in the soul
[06:05.52] It's story never has been told
[06:07.85] The joy spring the fountain of pleasure
[06:11.59] Is deep inside you whether you're digging it or not
[06:14.05] Once you're aware of this spring
[06:16.45] You'll know that it's the greatest
[06:17.70] Treasure you've got
[06:19.04] And furthermore
[06:19.82] The joy spring the bounteous treasure
[06:23.47] Cannot be bartered away and never
[06:25.04] Can be sold
[06:25.87] Nothing can take it from you
[06:28.07] It's yours and yours alone to have
[06:29.62] And to hold
[06:30.88] And something more:
[06:31.34] It never is lost to fire or theft
[06:33.83] It's always around
[06:34.64] When trouble is gone the pleasure
[06:35.99] Is left I've always found
[06:37.91] It's burglar-proof same as the treasure
[06:39.51] Man lays up in heaven worth a
[06:41.17] Price no one can measure
[06:42.63] That says a lot
[06:43.65] So joy spring this fountain of pleasure
[06:47.27] That's deep inside you let me inform
[06:49.02] You in all truth
[06:50.64] Ponce de Leon sought this
[06:51.53] When he was searching
[06:52.54] For the fountain of youth
[06:54.54] I say in truth he sought a magical thing
[06:58.00] For he was searching
[06:58.86] For the joy spring
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