Take it Step by Step

Take it Step by Step

Music by Brenda Sinclair Sutton; lyrics by Bill and Brenda Sutton
©2008 Mad Tom Music

(This song came out of our experiences hiking from the Shinto temple at the base of Mt. Fuji to the summit on the last day of climbing season after attending the Yoshida fire festival on August 26, 2008.  Most sensible people start at Level 5.  We were not most sensible people.)

We took the pilgrimage to Fuji in our Summer of Japan.
Hiking from the very bottom was our goal.
Men of ninety do the climb in just seven hours time.
Twenty miles uphill is really just a stroll.

Take it step by step. You can walk the longest road.
Take it step by step. You can carry any load.
Take it step by step. You can bring it all together
You can make it if you take it step by step.

Twenty steps and stop and pant, then twenty steps and stop and pant.
It’s been hours and we’re only halfway there.
It we keep on pressing on we might make it by the dawnOr we could hitchhike with those piggies in the air.

Take it step by step. You can walk the longest road.
Take it step by step. You can carry any load.
Take it step by step. You can bring it all together
You can make it if you take it step by step.

When at last we reached the summit, we looked deep within ourselves
Even though the ashy clouds obscured our view.
Filthy, freezing, cold, and dead – then the thought cam to our heads:
“Now we’ve got the blasted climb back down to do!”

Take it step by step. You can walk the longest road.
Take it step by step. You can carry any load.
Take it step by step. You can bring it all together
You can make it if you take it step by step.

Take it step by step. You can walk the longest road.
Take it step by step. You can carry any load.
Take it step by step. You can bring it all together
You can make it if you take it step by step.