Aspire to be Great Lyrics

It's late at night, the young boys out of sight,

His mother and father contend

What will be with our son Naftali Tzvi

Will his learning days have to end?

The child hears, his parents bitter tears

Only he can decide his fate,

He runs to them, with a brand new kind of bren

I want to learn, I promise I'll be great

A Gadol you can be, just look internally

You'll realize all the things you can achieve

Aspire to be great, with each step you take

Hashem gave you the Kochos- just believe

A Gadol you can be, just look internally

You'll realize all the things you can achieve

Aspire to be great, with each step you take

Hashem gave you the Kochos- just believe

Yisroel Meir knew what his friends planned to do

At night they'll take the water carriers pails

And fill them up with ease, through the night they will freeze

And add to this working mans travails

He thinks of the pain if the water does remain

The carrier will have the ice to break

So quiet as can be, each pail he does empty

He cannot bear to see someone in pain

A Gadol you can be, just look internally

You'll realize all the things you can achieve

Aspire to be great, with each step that you take

Hashem gave you the Kochos- just believe

The things you do today, may not feel so great

I'm not that important, you might say

But one thing you don't know is that those small things help you grow

So you can be a Gadol too one day