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