The Bricklayer's Story

Just a bricklayer by trade a harder worker you won't find
 He was like 50 when I met him maybe 15 years ago
 A scottish american and a master with the trowel
 He swears that he's the urban legend you hear about on every job and site
 A lifetime lifting cinderblocks, stacking bricks and mixing mortar
 Gave this man his crooked walk and kept his life in order
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 Here's about half an explanation and then not too much information
 Until the day he died he bragged that he's the one that rode the rope
 All six stories of that building from the pavement to the roof
 And then all the way back down to Earth
 A lifetime lifting cinderblocks, stacking bricks and mixing mortar
 Gave this man his crooked walk and kept his life in order
 A lifetime lifting cinderblocks, stacking bricks and mixing mortar
 Gave this man his crooked walk and made his lifetime shorter
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 "On the way up my skull was fractured and my collarbone was broken
 The barrel I was working with broke both of my forearms and the bones in my wrists"
 Don't believe a word of it, but the one thing that I'm sure about is this
 A lifetime lifting cinderblocks, stacking bricks and mixing mortar
 Gave this man his crooked walk and kept his life in order
 A lifetime lifting cinderblocks, stacking bricks and mixing mortar
 Gave this man his crooked walk
 Gave this man his crooked walk
 Gave this man his crooked walk
 And made his lifetime shorter