Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song The Carpenter, artist - Guy Clark. Album song Great American Radio Vol.1, in the genre Кантри
Date of issue: 28.02.2019
Record label: Floating World
Song language: English
The Carpenter |
Let us now praise a carpenter and the things that he made |
And the way that he lived by the tools of his trade |
I can still hear his hammer singing ten penny time |
Working by the hour till the day he died |
Oh he was tough as a crowbar quick as a chisel |
Fair as a plane and true as a level |
He was straight as a chalkline and right as a rule |
He was square with the world he took good care of his tools |
Oh he worked his hands in wood from the crib to the coffin |
With a care and a love you don’t see too often |
He built boats out of wood big boats working in a shipyard |
Mansions on the hill and a birdhouse in the backyard |
He was tough as a crowbar… |
He said anything that’s worth cuttin' down a tree for |
Is worth doin' right don’t the Lord love a two by four |
Well they asked him how to do some he’d say just like Noah built the ark |
You got to hold your mouth right son and never miss your mark |
To be tough as a crowbar… |