One Brick at a Time

The Lord gave each and everyone The spunk to do what can't be done The brawn, the brain, the courage and the heart The strength to bend the strongest bar The will to reach the farthest star It's just a case of learning how to start To build a tower up so high to a cloud you'll anchor Build it one tiny brick at a time Bucks multiply till a bum's a banker Just begin with a thin silver dime That empty field it can yield miles and miles of flowers You don't need no magic powers Just a seed and showers From the floor to the sky You can soar if you're wise enough to climb One brick at a time To build a ship that's built to last You lay the keel than raise the mast An ode begins with just a simple rhyme An oak with roots a mile beneath Becomes a stick to pick your teeth Just sharpen up your knife and take your time One stalwart chap with a cup and bunch of hours He can scoop all the salt from the sea Buds open up turning boughs to bowers All begun by just one bumblebee To write with ease symphonies Or at least contati Filled with trills and obligati Start with fa sol la ti Leave the rest in the dust Be the best If you're just content to climb One brick at a time Just take a brick and place it on the ground To make it stick pour mortar all around A cup of lime then stir until it's hard And up she'll climb by inch by foot by yard A sill, a door, a ledge, a window pane Then drill some more, raise up a weather vane A roof the proof that going slow like this A splendid edifice can climb To build a tower up so high to a cloud you'll anchor (Just take a brick and place it on the ground Build it one tiny brick at a time (To make it stick pour mortar all around) Bucks multiply till a bum's a banker (A cup of lime then stir until it's hard) Just begin with a thin silver dime (And up she'll climb by inch by foot by yard) That empty field it can yield miles and miles of flowers (A sill, a door, a ledge, a window pane) You don't need no magic powers Just a seed and showers (Then drill some more, raise up a weather vane) From the floor to the sky (A roof the proof that goin' slow like this) You can soar if you're wise enough to climb (A splendid edifice can climb) One brick at a time (One brick at a time) One single solitary brick One brick at a time One single solitary brick One brick at a time One single solitary brick Ooh, ahh Ooh, ahh, wee, aah! One brick at a time!