Build Me A Bridge

Three Fires Music Festival was a short lived festival on the Wikwemikong First Nation on Manitoulin Island. A great event but unfortunately not well attended and eventually it folded. Build Me A Bridge was written for a Theatre Cambrian produced play called The Man Who Never Died about Joe Hill, the songwriter and labour leader who helped organize some of the bitterest strikes of the 20th century. I messed the words up in the second verse in this performance. Here are the correct lyrics:

Oh, build me a road out of blood and bone
Let it join every city and town
And let it roll over sand and snow
May it lay on solid ground
And build it wide and pave with pride
Let it carry whoever may roam
Oh, build me this road, I will carry the load
'till every man is home

Then build me a bridge out heart and soul
Let it reach every shore in the world
And let it span every race of man
Let the banner be unfurled
And stay ye bold, never pay their toll
Let it stand for the weak and the poor
Oh, build me a bridge, no I won't budge an inch
'til every man cross o'er

Every man, every man
Every man, woman, child in the land
Oh, build me a land where there's power in the hand
Of every working man

Then build me a tower, oh, a tall, tall tower
Build it high as a eye ever saw
And pray thee keep its foundation deep
So that it may never fall
Then light me a light for to guard the night
Let it shine on the land of the free
Oh, build me a tower, I will count every hour
'til every man can see

Chorus

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