John Henry-Woody Guthrie

[ti:John Henry] [ar:Woody Guthrie] [al:Dust Bowl Blues] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]John Henry - Woody Guthrie [00:03.89]John Henry when he was a baby [00:07.73]Settin' on his mammy's knee [00:10.69] [00:11.40]Picked up an hammer in his little right hand [00:14.44]Said "Hammer be the death of me me me [00:18.64]Hammer be the death of me " [00:21.46] [00:22.22]Some say he's born down in Texas [00:25.62]Some say he's born up in Maine [00:28.77] [00:29.44]I just say he was a Louisiana man [00:32.80]Leader of a steel-driving chain gang [00:36.57]Leader on a steel-driving gang [00:39.06] [00:42.43]"Well" the captain said to John Henry [00:45.99]"I'm gonna bring my steam drill around [00:48.75] [00:49.55]Gonna whup that steel on the down [00:53.10]Whup that steel on the down down down [00:56.40] [00:56.94]Whup that steel on down " [00:59.35] [01:00.17]John Henry said to the captain (what he say ) [01:03.48]"You can bring your steam drill around [01:06.52] [01:07.16]Gonna bring your steam drill out on the job [01:10.46]I'll beat your steam drill down down down [01:14.55]Beat your steam drill down " [01:16.93] [01:18.58]John Henry said to his Shaker [01:21.79] [01:22.50]"Shaker you had better pray [01:25.33] [01:26.01]If you miss your six feet of steel [01:29.39]It'll be your buryin' day day day [01:32.88]It'll be your buryin' day " [01:35.57] [01:39.52]Now the Shaker said to John Henry [01:42.22] [01:43.35]"Man ain't nothing but a man [01:45.66] [01:46.42]But before I'd let that steam drill beat me down [01:49.92]I'd die with an hammer in my hand hand hand [01:53.44]I'd die with an hammer in my hand " [01:56.09] [01:58.55]John Henry had a little woman [02:01.10] [02:02.31]Her name was Polly Anne [02:04.83] [02:05.55]John Henry took sick and was laid up in bed [02:08.95]While Polly handled steel like a man man man [02:12.76]Polly handled steel like a man [02:15.05] [02:15.94]They took John Henry to the graveyard [02:19.44]Laid him down in the sand [02:22.11] [02:23.12]Every locomotive comin' a-rolling by [02:26.06] [02:26.57]Hollered "there lies a steel-drivin' man man man [02:29.42] [02:29.97]There lies a steel-drivin' man " [02:32.10] [02:33.43]There lies a steel-drivin' man man man [02:36.82]There lies a steel-drivin' man "