THE MAN WHO ROSE FROM NOTHING
AROUND the world the fame is blownOf fighting heroes, dead and gone;But we've a hero of our own—The man who rose from nothing.He's a magician great and grand;The forests fled at his command;And here he said, "Let cities stand!"—The man who rose from nothing.And in our legislative hallHe towering stands alone, like Saul,"A head and shoulders over all,"—The man who rose from nothing.His efforts he will ne'er relax,His faith in figures and in facts,And always calls an axe an axe,—The man who rose from nothing.The gentleman in word and deed;And short and simple in his creed;"Fear God and help the soul in need!"The man who rose from nothing.In other lands he's hardly known,For he's a product of our own;Could grace a shanty or a throne,—The man who rose from nothing.Here's to the land of lakes and pines,On which the sun of freedom shines,Because we meet on all our linesThe man who rose from nothing.
AROUND the world the fame is blownOf fighting heroes, dead and gone;But we've a hero of our own—The man who rose from nothing.He's a magician great and grand;The forests fled at his command;And here he said, "Let cities stand!"—The man who rose from nothing.And in our legislative hallHe towering stands alone, like Saul,"A head and shoulders over all,"—The man who rose from nothing.His efforts he will ne'er relax,His faith in figures and in facts,And always calls an axe an axe,—The man who rose from nothing.The gentleman in word and deed;And short and simple in his creed;"Fear God and help the soul in need!"The man who rose from nothing.In other lands he's hardly known,For he's a product of our own;Could grace a shanty or a throne,—The man who rose from nothing.Here's to the land of lakes and pines,On which the sun of freedom shines,Because we meet on all our linesThe man who rose from nothing.
AROUND the world the fame is blownOf fighting heroes, dead and gone;But we've a hero of our own—The man who rose from nothing.
AROUND the world the fame is blown
Of fighting heroes, dead and gone;
But we've a hero of our own—
The man who rose from nothing.
He's a magician great and grand;The forests fled at his command;And here he said, "Let cities stand!"—The man who rose from nothing.
He's a magician great and grand;
The forests fled at his command;
And here he said, "Let cities stand!"—
The man who rose from nothing.
And in our legislative hallHe towering stands alone, like Saul,"A head and shoulders over all,"—The man who rose from nothing.
And in our legislative hall
He towering stands alone, like Saul,
"A head and shoulders over all,"—
The man who rose from nothing.
His efforts he will ne'er relax,His faith in figures and in facts,And always calls an axe an axe,—The man who rose from nothing.
His efforts he will ne'er relax,
His faith in figures and in facts,
And always calls an axe an axe,—
The man who rose from nothing.
The gentleman in word and deed;And short and simple in his creed;"Fear God and help the soul in need!"The man who rose from nothing.
The gentleman in word and deed;
And short and simple in his creed;
"Fear God and help the soul in need!"
The man who rose from nothing.
In other lands he's hardly known,For he's a product of our own;Could grace a shanty or a throne,—The man who rose from nothing.
In other lands he's hardly known,
For he's a product of our own;
Could grace a shanty or a throne,—
The man who rose from nothing.
Here's to the land of lakes and pines,On which the sun of freedom shines,Because we meet on all our linesThe man who rose from nothing.
Here's to the land of lakes and pines,
On which the sun of freedom shines,
Because we meet on all our lines
The man who rose from nothing.