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I'm The Man That Built the Bridges — Words and Music by Tom Paxton With help from Chordify (amazing what you can do with technology these days!) E B E
I Ecleared the rocks and timber from the Awild New England Eshore, I Elabored long and hard to make it Bgrow. I Ebuilt the first log cabins and I Araised a famiEly, Told King EGeorge and all his BRedcoats where to Ego.
[Chorus] A I'm the man that built the bridges.
I'm the Eman that laid the track. I'm the Bman that built this country With my Eshoulders and my back. I'm the Aman that built the power dams, And Eoiled all the cars, And BI laid down the cornerstone For Ethis great land of ours.
I'm the Eboy that drove the wagons when the Apeople headed Ewest, Dug canEals and pulled the barges on their Bway. I Ebuilt and ran the factories, cut the Atimber for your Ehomes, Drove the Eoxen when I Bcut and baled the Ehay.
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I Ebuilt the old sod shanties and I Araised the prairie Etowns, I Emade the railroad run from sea to Bsea. I Eraised and drove the cattle to Afeed a growing Eland, And the Emining towns are Bthere because of Eme.
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I Estoked the mighty furnaces and Arolled the flamin' Esteel, I Eoperated oil rigs and Bwells. And Ewhen the country needed them, I Abuilt the planes and Etanks, To Esend the tyrants Bdown to fry in EHell.
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Well, my Eface may not be pretty and my Aclothes are not the Ebest, And there Eain't no bigshots in my family Btree, But Eif you're wonderin' who it was that Amade this country Egreat, You don't Ehave to look no Bfurther, it was Eme.
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