John Henry-Woody Guthrie

[ti:John Henry] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Worried Man Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.06]John Henry - Woody Guthrie [00:03.82]John henry when he was a baby [00:06.47] [00:07.87]Settin' on his mammy's knee [00:09.91] [00:11.59]Picked up an hammer in his little right hand [00:14.71]Said hammer be the death of me me me [00:18.04] [00:18.84]Hammer be the death of me [00:20.77] [00:22.37]Some say he's born in texas [00:25.38] [00:25.94]Some say he's born up in maine [00:28.57] [00:29.49]I just say he was a louisiana man [00:32.97]Leader of a steel driving chain gang [00:36.62]Leader on a steel driving gang [00:39.63] [00:42.78]Well the captain said to john henry [00:44.94] [00:46.18]I'm gonna bring my steam drill around [00:48.51] [00:49.69]Gonna bring my steam drill out on the job [00:52.93]Gonna whup that steel on down down down [00:56.84]Whup that steel on down [00:59.02] [01:00.15]John henry said to the captain what he say [01:03.62]You can bring your steam drill around [01:06.22] [01:07.12]Gonna bring my steam drill out on the job [01:10.60]I'll beat your steam drill down down down [01:14.60]Beat your steam drill down [01:16.98] [01:18.76]John henry said to his shaker [01:21.60] [01:22.51]Shaker you had better pray [01:24.36] [01:26.00]If you miss your six feet of steel [01:29.16]It'll be your buryin' day day day [01:32.42] [01:32.98]It'll be your buryin' day [01:35.27] [01:39.70]Now the shaker said to john henry [01:42.07] [01:43.34]Man ain't nothing but a man [01:45.46] [01:46.44]But before I'd let that steam drill beat me down [01:49.49] [01:50.12]I'd die with an hammer in my hand hand hand [01:53.50]I'd die with an hammer in my hand [01:56.42] [01:58.72]John henry had a little woman [02:00.88] [02:02.25]Her name was polly anne [02:04.21] [02:05.56]John henry took sick and was laid up in bed [02:09.07]While polly handled steel like a man man man [02:12.73]Polly handled steel like a man [02:15.25] [02:15.79]They took john henry to the graveyard [02:18.22] [02:19.60]Laid him down in the sand [02:21.63] [02:22.90]Every locomotive comin' a rolling by [02:26.10]Hollered there lies a steel drivin' man man man [02:29.20] [02:29.74]Hollered there lies a steel drivin' man [02:31.95] [02:33.19]Hollered there lies a steel drivin' man man man [02:36.02] [02:36.58]Hollered there lies a steel drivin' man [02:38.94]