Slavný americký zpěvák (též pianista a kytarista) oblasti country a popu. Vl. jm. Kenneth Donald Rogers, původem z Houstonu (nar. 1938). Na střední škole, t.j. v pol. 50. let, zakládá combo The Scholars, se kterým pořizuje i první nahrávky....

Píseň: You Gotta Be Tired

Interpret:
Kenny Rogers
Album:
Love Lifted Me
As a child, mama told me 
all about You
And all the things You've done
I wondered all these years 
how You kept goin'
And had the strength to carry on


She said You'd always be beside me
To help me up if I should fall
If I get lost You'll always find me
And all I have to do is call.


When Moses cried for help 
to free his people
You opened up the mighty sea
When David said´ He sure looks big Lord´, 
You said,´Here's a stone 
and you've got Me´


And when Daniel said´
The lions are gonna get me Lord´ You said,
´Get down, get down on your knees´
And in six short days You 
made the world we live in,
And still You find the time for me.


Oh, You stayed up forty days 
and forty nights Makin' all that rain
And when You see us messin' 
up this world You love so much


That's gotta bring pain
If I was big enough, 
and strong enough to help you, Lord, 
I would But I can't
You gotta be tired, Lord
You gotta be tired