One Brick At A Time - Cy Coleman

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

And 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 life 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 bumble bee

To write with ease symphonies

Or at least condati

Filled with trills and obblifatti

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 it all it’s hard

And up she’ll climb by inch by foot by yard

A still, a door, a ledge, a window pane

Then drill some more raise up a weather vane

A roof the proof that go’in slow like this

A splendid edifice can climb

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 feild it can yeild 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

Just take a brick and place it on the ground

To make it stick pour mortar all around

A cup of lime then stir it all it’s hard

And up she’ll climb by inch by foot by yard

A still, a door, a ledge, a window pane

Then drill some more raise up a weather vane

A roof the proof that go’in slow like this

A splendid edifice can climb

One brick at a

One brick at a time

One single solitary brick

One brick at a time

One single solitary brick

Ooooo ahhhhh

Ooooo ahhhhh

Oo oh whee oh

Ahhhh

One brick at a time!