The Masterpiece Full Lyrics
[00:16.64] There was an old stone-cutter
[00:18.75] Who lived in a cabin on the mountain side
[00:21.74] And the old stone-cutter knew it won't be long before he died
[00:26.93] And all around his cabin were statues the man had made
[00:31.48] Statues that the buyers said were all of a mediocre grade
[00:36.39] With his calloused hands he lit a lamp
[00:38.81] And laid down his head on his handmade table
[00:41.94] And he softly whispered
[00:43.70] "Lord I'm old and shaky and I'm hardly able
[00:47.68] But give me strenght and wisdom
[00:50.57] And give me a week at least
[00:52.87] And I'll climb up to the top of this mountain
[00:55.28] And chisel out a masterpiece"
[00:58.54] The very next morning he felt new strenght
[01:01.71] And he took his brand new hammer and the sharpest chisel
[01:05.04] He began to climb the mountain
[01:07.01] His old feet slipping in the freezing dizzle
[01:10.53] When he finally reached the top
[01:12.33] He shouted to a world that didn't hear
[01:15.74] "I'll carve my masterpiece out of this marble boulder here"
[01:20.85] So the hammer beat the chisel
[01:23.11] And he hammered 'til an image grew
[01:26.37] Then he stopped to look it over
[01:28.68] To appraise his work when he was through
[01:31.87] It was a boy carrying a crippled boy
[01:34.39] And the old man said, "It isn't my masterpiece
[01:38.07] I'll call it charity and then a masterpiece of mine will be"
[01:43.06] So the hammer beat the chisel
[01:45.59] 'Til another image in a marbel grew
[01:48.45] Then the wind began to blowing
[01:50.83] And he sat and rested when he was through
[01:53.92] It was the image of a mother holding her child
[01:57.08] He said, "This is love as the world would know
[02:00.87] But it isn't my masterpiece"
[02:03.65] And he began again as it began to snow
[02:07.46] The hammer beat the chisel
[02:09.86] As the snow fell harder and the wind grew and grew
[02:13.65] He fell to his knees holding a stone
[02:16.41] And he threw down his hammer and his chisel too
[02:19.66] He lay frozen face down in the snow
[02:22.91] But one hand was held for the world to see
[02:26.07] Cut in the marble was his masterpice
[02:29.04] Three neatly carved letters: G O D
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