Luyện nghe bài hát Legend Of John Henry

1. John Henry was a little baby boy,
on his daddy's knee,
He up a hammer, and a cold piece of steel,
Said this hammer's gonna be the 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 that early every mornin'
Just to his hammer ring, Lord, Lord,
Just to his hammer ring.

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

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

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

6. Well, every morning around daylight
the bluebirds 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. John was a big man, six foot two,
And four around his chest.
He'd swing that nine-pound all day
And never get and want to rest, Lord, Lord,
And never get and want to rest.

8. Well the captain to John Henry,
Gonna me a steam drill '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, John said 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 Henry is a drivin' man."
(Lead Break)

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

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

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

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

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

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

16. John Henry hammered in the
'Til his hammer was fire.
The only 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,
Thought it was fine;
John Henry in sixteen feet,
The steamdrill only nine,
The steamdrill made nine. One more time!

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

They say, "Yonder lies that steel man, Oh Lord!
And he's 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 in the thick smoke and intense heat of the tunnel.