| John Henry 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 little right hand
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| Said «Hammer be the death of me me me,
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| hammer be the death of me!»
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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 chain gang
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| leader on a steel-driving gang
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| «Well», the captain said to John Henry
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| «I'm gonna bring my steam drill around
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| gonna whup that steel on down down down
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| whup that steel on down!»
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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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| gonna bring my steam drill out on the job
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| I’ll beat your steam drill down down down
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| beat your steam drill down!»
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| John 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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| It’ll be your buryin' day day day
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| It’ll be your buryin' day!»
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| Now the Shaker said to John Henry
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| «Man ain’t nothing but a man
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| but before I’d let that steam drill beat me down
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| I’d die with an hammer in my hand hand hand
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| I’d die with an hammer in my hand!»
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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 was laid up in bed
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| While Polly handled steel like a man man man
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| Polly handled steel like a man.
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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 by
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| hollered «there lies a steel-drivin' man man man
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| there lies a steel-drivin' man!» |
Song information On this page you can read the lyrics of the song John Henry , by - Jerry Lee Lewis. Song from the album Three Classic Albums Plus (Jerry Lee Lewis / Jerry Lee Lewis and His Pumping Piano / Jerry Lee's Greatest), in the genre Иностранный рок