Luyện nghe bài hát Legend Of John Henry

1. When John Henry was a 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,
This hammer's be the death of me.

2. John Henry's could hammer,
He could whistle, and he sing.
He was up on that early every mornin'
to hear his hammer ring, Lord, Lord,
Just to 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 and shovel too, Lord, Lord,
I can pick and too."
(Lead Break)

4. John Henry's daddy was a drivin' man
Over at Big Bend drive,
Where he drove so hard that he 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
John Henry was so small, and that was so tall,
He just leaned on his and he cried,
He leaned on his hammer and he cried.

6. Well, every morning around daylight
the bluebirds begin to sing.
You can John Henry a mile or more.
Just listen to his ring, Lord, Lord.
Yeah, listen to his 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 tired and to rest, Lord, Lord,
And never get and want to rest.

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

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

10. John said, "Mr. Captain,
time you go to town,
Bring me a twelve-pound hammer a 40 inch handle,
And beat that 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 twenty pounds from my hips on down,
Just to the cold steel ring, ring, ring,
Just to the cold steel ring!"

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

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

14. Well John Henry had a woman,
Her name was Ann.
that Shaker got sick, and laid out in his bed,
Polly'd hold 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.
when I heard that little boy say,
"I'm be a steel drivin' man, just like Daddy.
I'm gonna be a drivin' man."
(Lead Break)

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

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

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