Jesus Was A Carpenter Lyrics - Johnny Cash

Jesus was a carpenter and he worked with a sow and a hammer 

And his hands could form a table true enough to stand forever 

And he might have spun his life out in the coolness of the mornings 

But he put aside his tools and he walked the burning highways 

To build a house from folks like you and me 

And he found them as they wandered through the wild Judean mountains 

And he found them as they pulled their nets upon the Sea of Galilee 

And for a thousand evenings while the day behind him emptied 

He walked among the poor and he stopped to touch the dying 

And he built his house from people just like these 

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It was on a shining Sunday when he rode to old Jerusalem 

And the palms they cast before him were the crimes they laid against him 

It was on a stormy Friday when he climbed the streets of Calvary 

And where he died today why they're sellin' beads and postcards 

And they tell us too that that was long ago 

But would he stand today upon the sands of California 

Or walk the sweating blacktop in New York and Mississippi 

Where the mighty churches rise above the screaming cities 

Would he be a guest on Sunday a vagrant on a Monday 

With the doors locked tight against his kind you know 

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Come again now Jesus be a carpenter among us 

There are chapels in our discontent cathedrals in our sorrows 

And we dwell in golden mansions with the sand for our foundations 

And the raging water's rising and the thunder's all around us 

Won't you come and build a house on rock again 

Jesus was a carpenter...