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If you're down by Queen and Britain streets 
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You'll find Stonecutter's Lane 

The house that my Grandfather built 
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Where I was born and raised 
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My Granddad was a mason 
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And my father in his time 
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When my time came I signed as an apprentice lad 


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The early Nineteen Hundreds 
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Were a rich, fat afternoon 

We were cutting stone like demons 
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No work was done too soon 
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We were hired out on seven jobs 
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And so to take the slack 
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We put out advertisements for apprentice lads 


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You'd never find a better crew 
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They knew what work was 

Cornices and lintels 
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They laid stone like they were gods 
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To hear the hammers ring out 
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You'd think it was a song 


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In August, Nineteen Fourteen 
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In the sultry summer heat 

They took a vote in Ottawa 
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The drums began to beat 
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Honour, glory, us or them 
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The story doesn't change 
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To a man they all enlisted, my apprentice lads 


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I didn't say that I agreed 
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'Cause I knew what war was 

It was worker killing worker 
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For some politician's cause 
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And off to battle they all marched 
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They gassed them at Cambrai 
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The dogs of war had done for my apprentice lads 


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In Nineteen Sixteen fire broke out 
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Parliament was razed 
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The call went out for masons 
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To rebuild and to re-lay 
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It was the contract of a lifetime 
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The house upon the hill 


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So they came out from Vancouver 
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They came down from Montreal 

Master masons everyone 
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They were answering their call 
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There was no man under thirty 
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No man whose work I didn't know 
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The fields of France had swallowed the apprentice lads 


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It's Nineteen Twenty-One now 
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I'm standing at the peak 

About to cap the Peace Tower off 
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There's no one here can speak 
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The mortar for that stone we mixed 
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With clay from Flanders' Fields 
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Laid it in it's place for those apprentice lads 
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Yeah, we laid it in it's place for those apprentice lads 


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