Luyện nghe bài hát Legend Of John Henry

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

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

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

5. John Henry stood there on the
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 begin to sing.
You can hear John a mile or more.
listen to his hammer ring, Lord, Lord.
Yeah, listen to his ring.
(Lead Break)

7. Henry was a big man, six foot two,
And feet around his chest.
He'd swing that nine-pound all day
And get tired and want to rest, Lord, Lord,
And get tired and want to rest.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

17. The men that the steamdrill,
Thought it was fine;
John Henry in sixteen feet,
The only made nine,
The steamdrill made nine. One more time!

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

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