Luyện nghe bài hát Legend Of John Henry

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

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

3. Young John Henry found the
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 Henry's was a steel drivin' man
Over at that Big drive,
Where he so hard that he broke his poor heart,
Then down his hammer and he died.
He laid his hammer and he died.

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

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

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

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

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

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

11. Henry said to his shaker,
"Now, Shaker, why don't you
I'm throwin' twenty pounds from my 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 mountain's cavin' in."
Henry laughed to the Captain,
"That's just my hammer wind, Oh yeah,
That's just my suckin' wind."
(Lead Break)

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

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

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

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

17. The men invented the steamdrill,
it was mighty fine;
John Henry tunneled in feet,
The only made nine,
The only made nine. One more time!

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

They say, "Yonder lies that 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 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.