The Man Who Built Carnegie Hall

The Man Who Built Carnegie Hall - Elmer Hawkes

He was a man who never danced he never sang

He never played on a stage when the crowd gave a roar

But he sat all alone as he laid out his plans

With sketches all over the floor

And he envisioned the stage as he measured each line.

And he could hear how the echoes would fall

He was a man who took all of his greatest ideas

And put 'em into Carnegie Hall

He was a man who never wrote down a chord or a note
He never played on a flute or a horn
But he'd worked through the night 'neath the glare of a light
As the balcony slowly took form
And he designed every door, every ceiling and floor
And he could see every last curtain call
He was the man who took all the hope in his heart
And he put it into Carnegie Hall

He framed his ideas as a painter would frame
A painting suspended in time
He'd laid out dimensions in phase after phase
As a poet would layout a rhyme

He was a man who never danced he never sang
He'd never spoken a line in a movie or show
But he could hear every pause and every round of applause
As his imagination let go
And he put all his dreams into girders and beams
And spotlights that hung on a wall
He was a man who had a gift and it came to be known
As a building called Carnegie Hall

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