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 Prague
Now overhead I hear the tread one hundred thousand strong,
Like the water's will, they cannot still this power that moves us on.

Refrain:
One by one, side by side,
We will stand and face the fire, there's no turning back this tide.
Stone by stone, day by day,
We will make the great walls crumble,
And the borders fade away.

She is just a mother,
Two children six and four,
And she 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:

I am just a student
And like students everywhere
We dreamed great dreams together
As we gathered in the square.
Though your tanks might break our bodies, we'll one day break these chains.
The streets of blood like freedom's flood now surges through our veins:

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?
Then I hear the cries for freedom rise from cities far and near
From great to least from west to east we join their voices here:

(as sung by Mike Nicholson on his CD Stone by Stone)
NMK