Key: D major
Intro 1
F#
D#m
C#
B
C#
Verse 1
was a little baby
E
B
C#
Sitting on his daddy's knee
F#
C#
F#
Hammer's gonna be the death of me"
Verse 2
"I'm gonna bring that steam
B
C#
drill around
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C#
I'm gonna knock that steel all down
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C#
God, God
D#m
F#
C#
F#
I'm gon na knock that steel all down"
Verse 3
E
B
C#
"Lord, a man ain't nothing but a man"
C#
F#
hammer in my hand
C#
D#m
Lord, Lord
C#
F#
hammer in my hand"
Verse 4
E
B
C#
That steam drill was driving on the left
C#
F#
self to the death
C#
D#m
Lord, Lord
F#
C#
I'm gonna hammer my full self to
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the death"
Interlude 1
F#
D#m
C#
B
C#
Verse 5
F#
Henry
B
C#
"What is that storm I hear"
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B
John Henry said "That ain't no storm,
Captain
F#
C#
F#
That's just my hammer in the air
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C#
F#
That's just my hammer in the air"
Verse 6
John Henry, he said to his shaker
B
C#
"Shaker, why don't you sing
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C#
Listen to my cold steel ring
D#m
F#
C#
F#
Listen to my cold steel ring"
D#m
C#
B
Verse 7
C#
the mountains
B
C#
His hammer was striking fire
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C#
John Henry laid down
his hammer and died
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D#m
Lord, Lord
F#
C#
John Henry laid down his hammer
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and died
Verse 8
B
C#
By the name of Polly Ann
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C#
And Polly drove steel like a man
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D#m
Lord, Lord
F#
C#
F#
Polly drove that steel like a man
Verse 9
now every Monday morning
B
C#
When, a bluebird, he began to sing
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D#m
Lord, Lord
F#
C#
You could hear John Henry's
Verse 10
hammer ring
C#
B
You could hear John Henry's hammer ring
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