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