Song information On this page you can find the lyrics of the song John Henry, artist - Woody Guthrie. Date of issue: 05.11.2019
Song language: English
John Henry |
| John Henry when he was a baby |
| settin' on his mammy’s knee |
| picked up an hammer in his little right hand |
| Said «Hammer be the death of me me me, |
| hammer be the death of me!» |
| Some say he’s born in Texas |
| Some say he’s born up in Maine |
| I just say he was a Louisiana man |
| Leader of a steel-driving chain gang |
| leader on a steel-driving gang |
| «Well», the captain said to John Henry |
| «I'm gonna bring my steam drill around |
| gonna whup that steel on down down down |
| whup that steel on down!» |
| John Henry said to the captain (what he say?) |
| «You can bring your steam drill around |
| gonna bring my steam drill out on the job |
| I’ll beat your steam drill down down down |
| beat your steam drill down!» |
| John Henry said to his Shaker |
| «Shaker you had better pray |
| If you miss your six feet of steel |
| It’ll be your buryin' day day day |
| It’ll be your buryin' day!» |
| Now the Shaker said to John Henry |
| «Man ain’t nothing but a man |
| but before I’d let that steam drill beat me down |
| I’d die with an hammer in my hand hand hand |
| I’d die with an hammer in my hand!» |
| John Henry had a little woman |
| Her name was Polly Anne |
| John Henry took sick and was laid up in bed |
| While Polly handled steel like a man man man |
| Polly handled steel like a man. |
| They took John Henry to the graveyard |
| laid him down in the sand |
| Every locomotive comin' a-rolling by by by |
| hollered «there lies a steel-drivin' man man man |
| there lies a steel-drivin' man!» |