I've seen the hands of laborers that lifted all the loads
And the granite stuck to their fingers as they dug the canals and the roads
Now they're cleared and the bridges span
The river paused for a power dam
And now the hand of the laborer is reaching out to you
Oh the hands hands hands that worked to build land, land, your land
The labor of the woman and the man workin' with their hands
Hands, hands, hands a-workin' with their hands