This is not the Leslie Fish version. Unfortunately, the melody is not recorded.
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The careful textbooks measure... let all who build be- ware
The load, the shock, the pressure... ma- te-r-i-al can bear
So when the buckled girder... lets down the grinding span
The blame of loss or murder... is la-id upon the man
.. .. not on the steel... ... ... the man
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But in our dail - y dealings... with stone and steel we find
The gods have no such feeling... of justice towards man kind
To no set gauge they make us... to no laid course pre- pare
In time they over take us... with loads we cannot bear
.. .. to merci less... ... ... to bear
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The pru-dent text-books give it... in ta - bles at... the end
The stress that shears a rivet... or makes a tie - bar bend
What traffic wrecks ma- cadam... what concrete should en- dure
But we poor sons of Adam... have no such li - tera - ture
.. .. to warn us or... make sure...
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We hold all Earth to plun der... all time and space as well
Too won-der stale to won-der... at each new mira - cle
What traffic wrecks ma - cadam... what concrete should en- dure
But we poor sons of Adam... have no such liter - a - ture
... ... to warn us or... make sure...
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We on - ly in crea tion...(how-much luckier the bridge and rail
Too won-der stale to won-der... at each new mira - cle
What traffic wrecks ma - cadam... what concrete should en- dure
But we poor sons of Adam... have no such liter - a - ture
... ... to warn us or... make sure...
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Oh veiled and se - cret power... whose paths we seek in vain
Be with us in our hour... of o-ver-throw and pain
That we by which sole to- ken... we know thy ways are TRUE
In spite of be-ing broken... or be cause of be-ing broken
... rise up and build... a-new...
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