Key: D major
Verse 1
Gene Sullivan there,
with Past the Biscuits.
That really takes me back
home.
Another Columbia recording artist
whose top's for Louisiana
hayride pickin' and singin'
is Johnny Horton,
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Say, Singing Fisherman, how are the bass bitin'?
Well,
I'll tell ya,
especially on the little bait
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that I've invented.
You go out early in the mornin',
you know...
Take over,
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John, with a song.
What do you say?
John Henry Walsh
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A little bitty boy
No bigger than the palm of
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Freddy's hand
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at Henry and she said
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She said, my Johnny's gonna be a steel driving man,
man, man
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Johnny's gonna be a steel driving man,
yeah
John Henry said to his captain
Said a man ain't nothin' but a man
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But before I let the
steam drum beat me down
I'm gonna die with this hammer in my hand,
oh, oh
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Gonna die with this hammer in my hand
John Henry said to his shaker
little piece of steel,
boy, tomorrow'll be a fair day, day,
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day, tomorrow'll be a fair day
Johnny Henry said to his shaker, shaker
little piece of steel,
boy, listen to that coal steel ring, ring,
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ring, listen to that coal steel ring
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Oh!
The captain, he said to John Henry
he said
Ain't nothin' but my hammer suckin' wind,
Lordy, Lordy
Ain't nothin' but my
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hammer suckin' wind
John Henry had a little woman
But Polly Ann drove that stupid flock of men,
Lordy, Lordy
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Polly Ann drove that stupid flock of men
They took Johnny and
Red to the graveyard
that come rollin' by
Johnny lies a steel drivin' man
And there yonder lies a steel
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drivin' man
Thank you very much.
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