Key: Ab major
Verse 1
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with a saw and a hammer
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true enough to stand forever
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And He might have spun His life out
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in the coolness of the morning
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But He put aside His tools and He
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walked the burning highways
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people just like these
Verse 2
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And He found them as they wandered
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through the wild Judean mountains
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And He found them as they pulled
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their nets upon the Sea of Galilee
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And for a thousand evenings while
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the day behind Him emptied
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He put aside His tools and
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stopped to touch the dying
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And He built His house from
Verse 3
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He rode to old Jerusalem
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And the palms they
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cast before Him
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Were like the crimes they laid against Him
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It was on a storming Friday when He
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climbed the streets to Calvary
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And where He died today why they're
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selling beads and postcards
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that was long ago
Interlude 1
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Verse 4
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the sands of California
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York and Mississippi?
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Would He be a guest on Sunday,
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a vagrant on a Monday?
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against His kind you know
Verse 5
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Oh, come again now Jesus be
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a carpenter among us
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There are chapels in our discontent,
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cathedrals to our sorrows
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And we dwell in golden mansions
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with the sand for our foundations
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And the raging water's rising and
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the thunder's all around us
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Verse 6
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Jesus was a carpenter and He worked
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And His hand s could form a table true enough to stand
Outro 1
forever
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