Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The - The Bricklayer's Story Lyrics
Just a bricklayer by trade a harder worker you won't find
He was like fifty when I met him maybe fifteen years ago
A Scottish American and a master with the trowel
He swears that he's the urban legend you hear about on every job and site
Gave this man his crooked walk and kept his life in order
Here's about half an explanation and then not too much information
Until the day he died he bragged that he's the one that rode the rope
All six stories of that building from the pavement to the roof
And then all the way back down to earth
A lifetime lifting cinderblocks, stacking bricks and mixing mortar
Gave this man his crooked walk and kept his life in order
A lifetime lifting cinderblocks, stacking bricks and mixing mortar
"On the way up my skull was fractured and my collarbone was broken
The barrel i was working with broke both of my forearms and the bones in my wrists"
Don't believe a word of it, but the one thing that I'm sure about is this:
A lifetime lifting cinderblocks, stacking bricks and mixing mortar
Gave this man his crooked walk and kept his life in order
A lifetime lifting cinderblocks, stacking bricks and mixing mortar
Gave this man his crooked walk [x3]
And made his lifetime shorter
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Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The The Bricklayer's Story Comments
To all the masons here ! Cheers ! We built this world
I'm a bricklayer by trade and I love this song
Still loving this music in 2019!👍
I loved playing this song when working at my previous job. Everyone else would always play this modern, untalented pop/rap garbage. Not me, you gotta teach kids these days what real music is.
I just love how the MMB always manage to draw a picture of the story through their amazing lyrics. A band like no other, indeed
In a bricklayers pre -apprenticeship class right now! 3 more weeks to go! Union boy till I die!
I'm a Union Bricklayer!!!
This sums it up!!!
Love this song
Impossible to hate. Really has a way of picking you up when your feeling down, no matter what the reason.
I can't believe this doesn't have more likes, it's a great song.