Saint Joseph, God has chosen you
to keep his Church from harm,
So hold the Church as once you held
The Christ child in your arm.

Saint Joseph, God has given you
All workers for your own.
Teach them to do the best they can
With steel and wood and stone.

Saint Joseph, O when death is near,
Come bending to my side,
For Jesus and his Mother bent
To help you when you died.

Saint Joseph, when you pray for me,
Pray to the three in one.
But talk in human words with Him
Who let you call Him son.