Stone By Stone - John McCutcheon

I am just a plumber

And I take pride in my job

I know every inch of piping

Underneath the streets of Grob

Now overhead I hear a dread one hundred thousand strong

Like the water’s will, they cannot still this power that moves us on

One by one

Side by side

We will stand and face the fire, there’s no turning back this time

Stone by stone

Day by day

We will make the great walls crumble

And the boarders fade away

And I am just a mother

Two children six and four

And I grew up in the shadow of the wall, and of the war

From our mothers to our daughters we’ll pass this torch one day

We praise the names who fanned the flames

And in one voice we say

One by one

Side by side

We will stand and face the fire, there’s no turning back this time

Stone by stone

Day by day

We will make the great walls crumble and the borders fade away

I am just a student

And like students everywhere

We dreamed great dreams together

We gathered in the square

And though their tanks may break our bodies

We’ll one day break these chains

The streets of blood like freedom’s flood

Now surges through out veins

One by one

Side by side

We will stand and face the fire, there’s no turning back this time

Stone by stone

Day by day

We will make the great walls crumble

And the borders fade away

And I hear the distant thunder

As it rages o’er the sea

And I watch with awe and wonder

What’s this got to do with me

As we hear the cries for freedom

Rise from cities far and near

From great to least in west and east

We join their voiced here

One by one

Side by side

We will stand and face the fire

There’s no turning back this time

Stone by stone

Day by day

We will make the great walls crumble

And the borders fade away

One by one

Side by side

We will stand and face the fire, there’s no turning back this time

Stone by stone

Day by day

We will make the great walls crumble

And the boarders ' fade away