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 this hammer's be the death of me, Lord, Lord,
hammer's gonna be the death of me.

2. John Henry's Daddy hammer,
He could whistle, and he sing.
He was up on that mountain early every
Just to his hammer ring, Lord, Lord,
Just to his hammer ring.

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

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

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

7. John was a big man, six foot two,
And feet around his chest.
swing that 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,
bring me a steam drill 'round
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 ain't 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. Henry said, "Mr. Captain,
time you go to town,
Bring me a twelve-pound hammer a 40 inch handle,
And I'll beat that drill down, Lord, Lord,
I'll beat steam drill down."

11. John Henry to his shaker,
"Now, Shaker, why don't you
I'm throwin' twenty 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 mountain's in."
John laughed to the Captain,
"That's just my hammer wind, Oh yeah,
That's just my hammer 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 like me, Lord,
Can't drive steel me!

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

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

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

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

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

They say, "Yonder lies steel drivin' man, Oh Lord!
And he's burried with his in his hand!"

John Henry was a former slave who 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 working in the thick smoke and intense heat of the tunnel.