D         G
Come labor get ready
    D              Bm
to dance for your bread
   D           G              D
My son, I was once where you stand
          D             G
There's a beast with insatiable
 D          Bm
hunger, its minions
      D            A
Need crafters and skilled
         D
working hands
         D        G           D
Needs a fortress high in the hilltops
    D           G           A
And we are the great chosen crew
    D       G      D       Bm
But I am a lowly carpenter so
 D           A       G
what have I power to do


|G |A | D|


   D       G          D          Bm
Oh misery call us to rise up at dawn,
    D            G          D
to turn ‘way as fast as we can
    D          G            D
We may be the mortar that cradles the
Bm        D          A           D
brick but I am just one grain of sand
          D          G
And don't tell me of tossing the
 D            D
Wrenches. It only brings
G             A
pleasure and pain
    D           G     D         Bm
And we are all lowly carpenters so
             D        A
where we're taken is where
        G
we'll remain


|G |A | D|


         D             G
And the masters shall govern with
 D        Bm
unbroken backs
      D            G          D
Look down from the top of the hill
         D               G
You can cry through the night just as
D              Bm
much as you'd like
           D          A         D
There will always be towers to build
                D
I could've been more than some
 G              D
stone dragging vessel
            D
I could be more than their
 G             A
wood cutting slave
    D           G     D         Bm
But we are all lowly carpenters so
 D            A        G
what have we power to change


|G |A | D|


           D             G
And if you can't take no more then
     D         Bm
get out of the way
      D          G          D
For we've got a day to get through
   D           G
We wire their castles,
        D          Bm
their prisons and banks
             G
Build their mansions
      A         D
from cellar to roof
          D            G
We've got hammers and wrenches and
 D
chisels
            D               G
We could destroy any great wall
         A
we come to
    D       G     D        Bm
But I am a lowly carpenter so
 D           A       G
what have I power to do