[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:10.92]Sydney 1926 this is the story of a man [00:17.85]Just a kid in from the sticks just a kid with a plan [00:26.85]St George took a gamble played him in first grade [00:33.63]Pretty soon that young man showed them how to flash the blade [00:42.84]And at the age of nineteen he was playing for the State [00:48.18]From Adelaide to Brisbane the runs did not abate [00:53.04]He hit 'em hard he hit 'em straight [00:55.32]He was more than just a batsman [01:00.30]He was something like a tide [01:02.19]He was more than just one man [01:06.00]He could take on any side [01:09.45]They always came for Bradman 'cause fortune used to hide in the palm of his hand [01:25.74]A team came out from England [01:28.65]Wally Hammond wore his felt hat like a chief [01:33.30]All through the summer of '28 '29 they gave the greencaps no relief [01:41.10]Some reputations came to grief [01:46.89]They say the darkest hour is right before the dawn [01:52.23]And in the hour of greatest slaughter the great avenger is being born [01:58.29]But who then could have seen the shape of things to come [02:02.97]In Bradman's first test he went for eighteen and for one [02:08.61]They dropped him like a gun [02:13.50]Now big Maurice Tate was the trickiest of them all [02:17.07]And a man with a wisecracking habit [02:20.64]But there's one crack that won't stop ringing in his ears [02:25.59]Hey Whitey that's my rabbit [02:31.62]Bradman never forgot it [02:34.95]He was more than just a batsman [02:36.51]He was something like a tide [02:40.05]He was more than just one man [02:42.63]He could take on any side [02:46.08]They always came for Bradman 'cause fortune used to hide in the palm of his hand [02:55.14]England 1930 and the seed burst into flower [03:24.99]All of Jackson's grace failed him it was Bradman was the power [03:34.35]He murdered them in Yorkshire he danced for them in Kent [03:39.93]He laughed at them in Leicestershire Leeds was an event [03:44.85]Three hundred runs he took and rewrote all the books [03:48.24]That really knocked those gents [03:52.41]The critics could not comprehend this nonchalant phenomenon [03:58.68]Why this man is a machine they said [04:01.32]Even his friends say he isn't human [04:05.94]Even friends have to cut something [04:07.98]He was more than just a batsman [04:13.02]He was something like a tide [04:14.88]He was more than just one man [04:18.81]He was half the side [04:22.35]Fathers used to take their sons 'cause fortune used to hide in the palm of his hand in the palms of his hands [04:38.19]Summer 1932 and Captain Douglas had a plan [04:45.33]When Larwood bowled to Bradman it was more than man to man [04:52.41]And staid Adelaide nearly boiled over as rage ruled over sense [04:59.22]When Bert Oldfield hit the ground they nearly jumped the fence [05:05.97]Now Bill Woodfill was as fine a man as ever went to wicket [05:10.89]And the bruises on his body that day showed that he could stick it [05:15.15]But to this day he's still quoted and only he could wear it [05:22.14]There's two teams out there today and only one of them's playing cricket [05:31.26]He was longer than a memory and bigger than a town [05:36.63]He feet they used to sparkle and he always kept them on the ground [05:42.09]Fathers took their sons who never lost the sound of the roar of the grandstand [06:00.69]Now shadows they grow longer and there's so much more yet to be told [06:16.74]But we're not getting any younger so let the part tell the whole [06:24.00]Now the players all wear colours the circus is in town [06:31.20]I can no longer go down there down to that sacred ground [06:40.92]He was more than just a batsman [06:42.18]He was something like a tide [06:45.90]He was more than just one man [06:48.12]He was half the bloody any side [06:51.81]Fathers took their sons 'cause fortune used to hide in the palm of his hand