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