Key: D minor
Verse 1
B
C#m
B
I was born one morning
C#m
G#
G#m
G#
in the rain of pouring down
C#m
F#
I heard my mammy say to my pappy
F#m
F#
G#
C#m
Let's call him John Henry Brown
Walk on boy, walk on boy
G#
C#m
B
G#m
Walk on down the road
E
C#m
Bbdim
Ain't nobody in this whole wide world
A
G#
C#m
Gonna help you carry your load
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
Walk on, boy
B
G#m
G#
I left my mammy and pappy
C#m
B
Just about the age of ten
G#m
G#
C#m
B
Lord, I got me a job
C#m
Bbdim
A
Work in' on the levee
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
Walk on boy, walk on boy
C#m
G#m
Walk on down the road
C#m
B
F#
Ain't nobody in this whole wide world
A
G#
Gonna help you carry your load
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
Walk on boy
B
G#m
One day my pappy told me
C#m
G#
B
G#
Some advice I want to give to you
C#m
B
Son, find a good woman,
F#
A
you be good to her
G#
C#m
And she's gonna be good to you
G#
C#m
Walk on boy,
G#
C#m
G#m
walk on down the road
C#m
B
F#
Ain't nobody in this whole wide world
F#m
A
G#
C#m
Gonna help you carry your load
Interlude 1
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
B
F#
A
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
F#
A
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
C#m
G#
Verse 2
C#m
G#m
If anyone should ever ask you
C#m
G#
G#m
Just who is that fellow brown
G#
C#m
B
You can tell him I'm the boy
A
G#
Where he beat that steam drill down
C#m
E
G#m
Walk on forth, walk on down the road
G#
C#m
There ain't nobody
B
F#
in this whole wide world
A
G#
That's gonna help you
C#m
G#
carry your load
C#m
B
Ain't nobody in this
A
G#
C#m
That's gonna help you carry your load
I said there ain't nobody
B
F#
in this whole wide world
A
G#
I'm gonna help you carry
B
G#
C#m
your load
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