Luyện nghe bài hát Legend Of John Henry

1. When 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 be the death of me.

2. John Daddy 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 hear his ring.

3. Young John Henry 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 and shovel too."
(Lead Break)

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

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

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

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

8. Well the captain to John Henry,
Gonna bring me a steam drill
Gonna put steam drill 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, John Henry to the captain,
"Now a man nothin' but a man,
But before I'll let your steam win,
I'll die this hammer 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 twelve-pound hammer a 40 inch handle,
And I'll that steam drill down, Lord, Lord,
I'll beat steam drill down."

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

They say, "Yonder lies that steel 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 through Big Bend Mountain in Talcott, West Virginia. Many men died working in the thick smoke and intense heat of the tunnel.