Jesus Was A Carpenter

Verse D D7 G A7 Jesus was a carpenter and he worked with a saw and a hammer D D7 G A7 And his hands could form a table true enough to stand forever D G D A7 And he might have spun his life out in the coolness of the mornings D G D G But he put aside his tools and he walked the burning highways D A7 To build a house from folks like you and me Verse D D7 G A7 And he found them as they wandered through the wild Judean mountains D D7 G A7 And he found them as they pulled their nets upon the Sea of Galilee D G D A7 And for a thousand evenings while the day behind him emptied D G D G He walked among the poor and he stopped to touch the dying D A7 And he built his house from people just like these Verse D D7 G A7 It was on a shining Sunday when he rode to old Jerusalem D D7 G A7 And the palms they cast before him were the crimes they laid against him D G D A7 It was on a stormin’ Friday when he climbed the streets of Calvary D G D G And where he died today why they're sellin' beads and postcards D A7 And they tell us too that that was long ago Verse D D7 G A7 But would he stand today upon the sands of California D D7 G A7 Or walk the sweating blacktop in New York and Mississippi D G D A7 Where the mighty churches rise above the screaming cities D G D G Would he be a guest on Sunday a vagrant on a Monday D A7 With the doors locked tight against his kind you know Verse D D7 G A7 Come again now Jesus be a carpenter among us D D7 G A7 There are chapels in our discontent cathedrals in our sorrows D G D A7 And we dwell in golden mansions with the sand for our foundations D G D G And the raging water's rising and the thunder's all around us D A7 Won't you come and build a house on rock again Verse D D7 G A7 Jesus was a carpenter and he worked with a saw and a hammer D D7 G A7 And his hands could form a table true enough to stand forever D G D A7 And he might have spun his life out in the coolness of the mornings D G D G But he put aside his tools and he walked the burning highways D A7 To build a house from folks like you and me