Mischief Brew

Lowly Carpenter(Chords)

Mischief Brew

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Come labor get ready 
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to dance for your bread 
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My son, I was once where you stand 
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There's a beast with insatiable 
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hunger, its minions 
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Need crafters and skilled 
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working hands 
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Needs a fortress high in the hilltops 
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And we are the great chosen crew 
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But I am a lowly carpenter so 
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what have I power to do 


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Oh misery call us to rise up at dawn, 
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to turn ?way as fast as we can 
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We may be the mortar that cradles the 
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brick but I am just one grain of sand 
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And don't tell me of tossing the 
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Wrenches. It only brings 
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pleasure and pain 
    D           G     D         Bm 
And we are all lowly carpenters so 
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where we're taken is where 
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we'll remain 


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And the masters shall govern with 
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unbroken backs 
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Look down from the top of the hill 
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You can cry through the night just as 
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much as you'd like 
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There will always be towers to build 
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I could've been more than some 
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stone dragging vessel 
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I could be more than their 
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wood cutting slave 
    D           G     D         Bm 
But we are all lowly carpenters so 
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what have we power to change 


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           D             G 
And if you can't take no more then 
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get out of the way 
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For we've got a day to get through 
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We wire their castles, 
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their prisons and banks 
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Build their mansions 
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from cellar to roof 
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We've got hammers and wrenches and 
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chisels 
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We could destroy any great wall 
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we come to 
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But I am a lowly carpenter so 
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what have I power to do 


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