There once was a church on East beach South of highway 49 Now all the kids in the town they were married there One weekend at a time And now its rubble Now its rubble Now its rubble Now its rubble The bankers boy met the debutant They were married in July But it turns out he was a gambler And he left her high and dry When the walls fall before your eyes You build it back up again Stone by stone Got to take it Stone by stone Got to take it Stone by stone By stone Down in a South Wales Valley There was a booming mining town Where every working man was someone Until Maggie shut them down And now they're rubble Now they're rubble Now they're rubble Now they're rubble So the miners son left the valley He needed something that would pay So he could send all money to his family To keep the bailiffs' at bay When the walls fall before your eyes You build it back up again Stone by stone Got to take it Stone by stone Got to take it Stone by stone by stone Got to take it Stone by stone Got to take it Stone by stone by stone My roots are in this Valley My folks married in that church The bankers boy was my daddy And I'll be buried in this earth Underneath this rubble Underneath this rubble Underneath this rubble Underneath this rubble