From the recording rock on rock

First written in 1987 while visiting the veincidades being rebuilt by hand after the earthquake in Mexico City. I was working in an inner city church and building brick patios and wooden decks 1/2 time...but here I smelled no diesel and could hear the birds sing! I keep singing it, after the San Francisco earthquake in 1989, September 11th, the New Year's Tsunami, Hurricane Katrina...rock on rock.

Lyrics

Rock on Rock, We build up the ancient rubble
Block on Block, We shall restore the former ruins.
Stone on Stone, We reconstruct the broken walls
Brick on Brick, We resurrect abandoned homes.

We shall repair the ruined cities
The devastation Of many generations.

So let the famine come
The floodwaters flow
The earthquake roar its mighty roar
The rumble and grumble and tumble of war
Crackle of fire, munch of the termite
The tinkle of shattering glass;
the wheeze of the plague's last gasp...