Luyện nghe bài hát Legend Of John Henry

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

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

3. Young John Henry 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 pick and too."
(Lead Break)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

14. Well Henry had a little woman,
Her was Polly Ann.
When 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 little boy,
Held him up in the of his hands.
That's when I heard that boy say,
"I'm gonna be a steel drivin' man, like Daddy.
I'm gonna be a drivin' man."
(Lead Break)

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

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

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

They say, "Yonder lies steel drivin' man, Oh Lord!
And he's burried 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 Mountain in Talcott, West Virginia. Many men died working in the thick smoke and intense heat of the tunnel.