John Henry chords by
Lead Belly
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Key: A major
Intro 1
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Verse 1
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John Henry,
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when he was a baby
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Settin' on his mammy's knee
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Picked up an hammer in his
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little right hand
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Said, "Hammer be the
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death of me, me, me
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Hammer be the death of me"
Verse 2
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Some say he's born in Texas
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Some say he's born up in Maine
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I just say he was a Louisiana man
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Leader of a steel-driving
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chain chain gang
Leader on a steel-driving gang
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gang Well, the Captain said
Verse 3
to John Henry
"I'm gonna bring my steam
drill around
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Gonna bring my steam drill out
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on the job
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Gonna whup that steel on down,
down, down
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Whup that steel on down"
Verse 4
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John Henry said to the Captain
(What he say?)
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"You can bring your steam drill around
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You can bring your steam
drill out on the job
I'll beat your steam drill down,
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down, down
Beat your steam drill down"
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John
Verse 5
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Henry said to his Shaker
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"Shaker, you had better pray
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If you miss your six feet of steel
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I'll be your buryin' day, day, day
I'll be your buryin' day"
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Now, the Shaker said
Verse 6
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to
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John Henry
(Yes sir)
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"Man ain't nothing but a man
(No he ain't)
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But before I'd let that steam
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drill beat me down
(I believe him)
I'd die with an hammer in my hand,
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hand, hand
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(I believe him)
I'd die with an hammer in
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my hand"
Verse 7
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John Henry had a little woman
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Her name was Polly Anne
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John Henry took sick and
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was laid up in bed
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While Polly handled steel like a man,
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man,
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Polly handled
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steel like a man
Verse 8
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They took John Henry to the graveyard
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Laid him down in the sand
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Every locomotive comin' a-rolling by
by
Hollered, there lies a steel-drivin' man,
man, man
man
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There lies a steel-drivin' man
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man
There lies a steel-drivin' man, man, man
man
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There lies a steel-drivin' man
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