Banks Are Made of Marble-Pete Seeger/The North Carolina Ramblers

[ti:Banks Are Made of Marble] [ar:Pete Seeger] [al:On Top of Old Smokey, Legends of Folk Vol. 1] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Banks Are Made of Marble - Pete Seeger/The North Carolina Ramblers [00:04.83]I've traveled round this country [00:08.18] [00:09.66]From shore to shining shore [00:12.68] [00:14.56]It really made me wonder [00:17.76] [00:19.22]The things I heard and saw [00:22.05] [00:23.96]I saw the weary farmer [00:26.83] [00:28.47]Plowing sod and loam; [00:31.73] [00:33.19]I heard the auction hammer [00:36.62] [00:37.87]Just a knocking down his home [00:41.04] [00:42.37]But the banks are made of marble [00:45.72] [00:46.97]With a guard at every door [00:49.93] [00:51.57]And the vaults are stuffed with silver [00:54.97] [00:56.27]That the farmer sweated for [00:59.29] [01:05.53]I see the seaman standing [01:08.56] [01:10.47]I dly by the shore [01:13.42] [01:14.62]And I heard the bosses saying [01:18.02] [01:19.21]Got no work for you no more [01:22.55] [01:24.06]But the banks are made of marble [01:27.38] [01:28.72]With a guard at every door [01:31.68] [01:33.24]And the vaults are stuffed with silver [01:36.75] [01:37.93]That the seaman sweated for [01:40.78] [01:47.34]I see the weary miner [01:50.04] [01:51.38]Scrubbing coal dust from his back [01:54.62] [01:56.11]And I heard his children cryin' [01:59.63] [02:00.77]Got no coal to heat the shack [02:04.18] [02:05.44]But the banks are made of marble [02:08.85] [02:10.07]With a guard at every door [02:13.23] [02:14.65]And the vaults are stuffed with silver [02:18.07] [02:19.27]That the miner sweated for [02:22.33] [02:31.92]I've seen my brothers working [02:34.74] [02:36.45]Throughout this mighty land; [02:39.43] [02:40.88]I prayed we'd get together [02:43.73] [02:45.43]And together make a stand [02:48.62] [02:49.72]Then we'd own those banks of marble [02:53.24] [02:54.48]With a guard at every door; [02:57.69] [02:58.66]And we'd share those vaults of silver [03:02.23] [03:03.65]That we have sweated for