Luyện nghe bài hát Legend Of John Henry

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

2. John Henry's Daddy hammer,
He could whistle, and he sing.
He was up on that mountain every mornin'
Just to hear his 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 pick and too."
(Lead Break)

4. John daddy was a steel drivin' man
Over at that Big drive,
he drove so hard that he broke his poor heart,
Then laid down his and he died.
He laid down his 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, every Monday morning around
When the bluebirds to sing.
You can John 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 around his chest.
swing that nine-pound hammer all day
And never get and want to rest, Lord, Lord,
And get tired and want to rest.

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

9. Well, Henry said to the captain,
"Now a man ain't but a man,
But before let your steam drill win,
I'll die with this in my hand, Lord, Lord.
John Henry is a steel man."
(Lead Break)

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

11. John said to his shaker,
"Now, Shaker, why don't you
I'm throwin' twenty from my hips on down,
Just to the cold steel ring, ring, ring,
Just listen to the cold ring!"

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

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

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

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

16. John hammered in the mountain
his hammer was flashing fire.
The only I heard 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 fine;
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 time that train rolls by
They say, "Yonder lies that steel man, Oh Lord!
lies that steel drivin' man!"

They say, "Yonder lies that 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 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 thick smoke and intense heat of the tunnel.