| You can build your house out of bricks
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| You can build your house out of stone
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| But as likely as you put it on the dirt, my friend
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| It’s likely it’ll fall on down
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| Well, you can build it high as a mountain
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| Well, you can build it thick as a wall
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| But as surely as you put it on the dirt, my friend
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| It’s gonna fall, fall-fall-fall
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| Some men they work for the railroad
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| Some men they work in a store
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| And some figured out a long time ago
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| Just will not work at all
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| Well, you can build it high as a mountain
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| Well, you can build it thick as a wall
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| But as surely as you put it on the dirt, my friend
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| It’s gonna fall, fall-fall-fall
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| This road ain’t leadin' me to glory
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| This path ain’t leadin' me on home
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| Don’t ask my woman where I’m goin'
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| I don’t believe she knows I’m gone
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| Well, you can build it high as a mountain
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| Well, you can build it thick as a wall
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| But as surely as you put it on the dirt, my friend
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| It’s gonna fall, fall-fall-fall
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| Well, you can build it high as a mountain
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| Well, you can build it thick as a wall
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| But as surely as you put it on the dirt, my friend
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| It’s gonna fall, fall-fall-fall
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| Yeah, you can build it as high as a mountain |