Common one - Calvin Russell

This is a song for the common one

Who do everything that’s ever been done

Whose hands built the cities

This is a song for you

This is a song for my brothers and friends

It’s been said before but I’ll say it again

We fight the same battle that no one can win

This is a song for you

I sing for the hungry

The tired and the torn

For the ones with no chance

From the day they were born

I sing to the battered

The beaten and the worn

This is a song for you

This is a song for the rank and the file

Who take the first step

Who go to the last mile

From the great Mississipi

To the river called Nile

This is a song for you

I sing to the honest

To the upright and tall

To the ones who are still fighting

In spite of it all

Who will pick up the pieces

After the fall

This is a song for you