Luyện nghe bài hát Legend Of John Henry

1. When John Henry was a baby boy,
on his daddy's knee,
He picked up a hammer, and a piece of steel,
Said this hammer's be the death of me, Lord, Lord,
This hammer's gonna be the of me.

2. John Henry's could hammer,
He whistle, and he could sing.
He was up on mountain early every mornin'
Just to his hammer ring, Lord, Lord,
to hear his hammer ring.

3. Young John found the Captain;
The asked, "What can you do?"
Said, "I can a jack, I can lay a track,
I can pick and too, Lord, Lord,
I can and shovel too."
(Lead Break)

4. John Henry's daddy was a drivin' man
Over at that Big drive,
Where he drove so hard that he his poor heart,
Then laid down his and he died.
He laid down his and he died.

5. John Henry stood there on the
At the where his daddy died
John was so small, and that mountain was so tall,
He just leaned on his and he cried,
He just leaned on his and he cried.

6. Well, every Monday morning daylight
When the begin to sing.
You can hear Henry a mile or more.
Just listen to his ring, Lord, Lord.
Yeah, to his hammer ring.
(Lead Break)

7. Henry was a big man, six foot two,
And four feet his chest.
He'd swing nine-pound hammer all day
And never get and want to rest, Lord, Lord,
And never get and want to rest.

8. Well the captain said to Henry,
Gonna bring me a steam 'round
Gonna put that drill out on the job
And show you how to lay in the ground, Lord, Lord
you how to lay steel in the ground.

9. Well, Henry said to the captain,
"Now a man nothin' but a man,
But before I'll let steam drill win,
I'll die with hammer in my hand, Lord, Lord.
John is a steel drivin' man."
(Lead Break)

10. Henry said, "Mr. Captain,
time you go to town,
Bring me a hammer with a 40 inch handle,
And beat that steam drill down, Lord, Lord,
I'll beat steam drill down."

11. John said to his shaker,
"Now, Shaker, why you sing?
I'm throwin' twenty pounds from my on down,
listen to the cold steel ring, ring, ring,
Just listen to the steel ring!"

12. Well the Captain to John Henry,
"Sounds like mountain's cavin' in."
Henry laughed to the Captain,
"That's my hammer suckin' wind, Oh yeah,
just my hammer suckin' wind."
(Lead Break)

13. Well, John Henry to the captain,
Looka yonder I see,
Hole done choke, and the drill broke,
And it can't drive like me, Lord, Lord
Can't drive steel me!

14. Well John had a little woman,
Her name was Ann.
that Shaker got sick, and laid out in his bed,
Polly'd that steel like a man, oh Lord,
Polly'd hold steel like a man.

15. John Henry had a baby boy,
Held him up in the of his hands.
That's when I heard little boy say,
"I'm gonna be a steel man, just like Daddy.
I'm gonna be a drivin' man."
(Lead Break)

16. John Henry hammered in the
his hammer was flashing fire.
The only words I him say was
"Get me a cool drink of water 'for I die, Yes
One big cool of water 'for I die.

17. The men that the steamdrill,
Thought it was mighty
John Henry in sixteen feet,
The steamdrill made nine,
The steamdrill only made nine. One time!

18. Well they John Henry to the graveyard,
And placed him 6 under the sand.
Now every time that rolls by
They say, "Yonder lies steel drivin' man, Oh Lord!
Yonder that steel drivin' man!"

say, "Yonder lies that steel drivin' man, Oh Lord!
And burried with his hammer in his hand!"

John Henry was a former slave who worked on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in the years following the Civil War. He was one of a thousand or so men who spent nearly three years drilling a hole through Big Bend Mountain in Talcott, West Virginia. Many men died working in the smoke and intense heat of the tunnel.