Bm A
I'm humble, alone
E F#
An old cutter of stone
Bm A
The maker, the shaper
D F#
The smith of the home
Bm A
No magician am I
E F#
For once I did thrive
G A Bm
But now I can barely survive
Bm A
My love went away
E F#
By boat and by train
Bm A
To somewhere, find someone
D F#
With prosperous trade
Bm A
In the woods of Old Penn
D F#
There's work to be done
G A Bm
Build mansions for the landworkers' sons
[Chorus]
D A
Where they threw away the knife for the gun
Bm
The brick for the feather
F#
They cut a friend's throat
Then they run
D A Bm
They're fighting the rise of the sun
F# D A Bm
They left me poor and alone and one
[Interlude]
A Em
G F# Em
Bm A Em
G F#
[Verse]
Bm A
So years did pass by
E F#
How I did survive
Bm A
With faith that my friends
D F#
Would come back to my side
Bm A
But I gathered a lot
E
The craft wasn't forgotten
A G A
We stand and our fruits won't go rotten
[Chorus]
E D A
We didn't throw away the knife for the gun
Bm
The brick for the feather
F#
Didn't cut a friend's throat
And then run
D A Bm
They're fighting the rise of the sun
F# D A Bm
They left me poor and alone and one
[Interlude]
A Em
G F# Em
Bm A Em
G F#
[Verse]
Bm A
So one day back they came
E F#
Brought little but shame
Bm A
Their children in arms
D F#
And their bodies in pain
Bm A
They shivered in the cold
E F#
I saw from my stone home
G A Bm
And they knocked 'til tears rained on the snow
[Chorus]
D A
They cried, "Worker of stone that we left long ago,
Bm F#
We're sorry we migrated to join the rows.
D A
But now we've returned,
Bm F#
Yes now we've come home,
D A Bm
And there's no place that we'd rather go, no."
[Verse]
Bm A
Why humble my tone?
E F#
An old cutter of stone
Bm A
The maker, the shaper
E F#
The smith of the home
Bm A
A magician am I
E F#
For I did survive
G A Bm
For I never became civilized
[Chorus]
D A
I didn't throw away the knife for the gun
Bm
The brick for the feather
F#
Didn't cut a friend's throat
And then run
D A Bm
They're fighting the rise of the sun
F# D A Bm
They came back poor and alone and one
