Luyện nghe bài hát Legend Of John Henry

1. John Henry was a little baby boy,
on his daddy's knee,
He picked up a hammer, and a piece of steel,
this hammer's gonna be the death of me, Lord, Lord,
This 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'
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 pick and too, Lord, Lord,
I can pick and too."
(Lead Break)

4. Henry's daddy was a steel drivin' man
at that Big Bend drive,
Where he drove so hard he broke his poor heart,
laid 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 just on his hammer and he cried,
He leaned on his hammer and he cried.

6. Well, every Monday around daylight
When the 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 feet around his chest.
He'd swing that hammer all day
And never get and want to rest, Lord, Lord,
And get tired and want to rest.

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

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

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

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

13. Well, John Henry to the captain,
Looka what I see,
Hole done choke, and the drill broke,
And it can't drive steel me, Lord, Lord
Can't drive steel 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 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 when I heard 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 water 'for I die, Yes
One big cool drink of 'for I die.

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

18. they took John Henry to the graveyard,
And him 6 feet under the sand.
Now every that train rolls by
They say, "Yonder lies that steel man, Oh Lord!
Yonder lies steel 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 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.