One, two, three, and two, two

Gonna build a mountain

From a little hill

Gonna build me a mountain

'Least I hope I will

Gonna build a mountain

Gonna build it high

I don't know how I'm gonna do it

I only know I'm gonna try

Gonna build me a daydream from a little hope

Gonna push that daydream up the mountain slope

Gonna build a daydream, gonna see it through

Gonna build a mountain and a daydream

Gonna make them both come true

Gonna build me a heaven from a little hell

Gonna build me a heaven and I know darn well

That if I build my mountain, yeah, with a lot of care

And take my daydream up the mountain

And Heaven will be waitin' there

Oh, yeah

Oh, yeah

Yeah, yeah, yeah

When I build that heaven as I will someday

And the Lord sends Gabriel to take me away

Ah, what a fine young son to take my place

I'll leave a son in a heaven on earth

With the good Lord's grace