Barnum soundtrack – One Brick At A Time lyrics

Charity:
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 skies
You can soar if you're wise enough to climb
One brick at a time
Men:
To build a ship that's built to last
Charity:
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 a bunch of hours
He can scoop all the salt from the sea
Buds open up turning bows to bowers
All begun by just one bumble bee

To write with ease symphonies
Or at least cantati
Filled with trills and obbligati
Start with fa, so, la, ti
Leave the rest in the dust
Be the best if your just content to climb
One Brick At A Time.

Chorus: (2 seperate parts)
1. 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 skies
You can soar
If you're wise enough to climb
One Brick At A Time

2. 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 its hard
And up she'll climb
By inch, by foot, by yard
A sill, a door, a ledge, a window pane
Then drill some up
Raise up the weather vane
A roof, the proof
That going slow like this
A splendid edifice can climb
One Brick At A Time

(Repeat 1 together)