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John Henry Trk 2
(trad.)
Buster (Wayman Glasco)
Buster - harmonica & vocal
(background male unk)
Fire 1960
Album: Brown New King of Blues
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Yeah!
Johnny his old Captain
'Man, a-when you go
Bring me back the nine pounds
I got to drive steel on down
I got to this steel on down

You see, Johnny's
Hit the boiler
The hammer on fire
Now, the last I heard
The boy say
'I want a cool a-water 'fore I die'
'Yeah, a cool a-water 'fore I die'

Yeah, wife
She that Johnny was dead
And she couldn't have in bed
Oh, now mornin'
the eastbound train
She said, I'm where my man fell dead
'Yeah! I'm goin' my man fell dead'

('Look out!')

(harmonica & instrumental)

Woo-ha! Woo-ha! Woo!

Woo! Woo!

(Woo! Lord, mercy, too)

(Ease mind)

(Yeah!)
Johnny's wife, she
A brand new (say)
And it was trimmed in
(Pretty thing)
Yeah, the last the words
to him, oh Lord, now
'Honey, I been to you'
'Yeah, honey I good to you'

Well, they carried Little
To the (boys, listen)
They looked at him and long
Now, the last were the
If you me, oh Lord
'Oh my husband, he is and gone'
That's she said
She said, 'My husband, he is dead and
'Yeah, my husband he is dead and

Yeah, when John was a baby
You could hold him in the paddles of hand
When everytime rock him, cried
(They say 'He gonna be a little man')
('Yeah, he sho' be a little man')

Yeah, who gonna buy yo' shoes then?
And who gonna yo' cheek?

She said, 'My daddy gonna buy my lil'
And John Henry gonna roll my
And Henry gonna roll my cheek
(That it said)
A-John gonna roll my cheek.

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