Luyện nghe bài hát Legend Of John Henry

1. John Henry was a little baby boy,
Sittin' on his knee,
He up a hammer, and a cold piece of steel,
Said hammer's gonna be the death 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 mountain every mornin'
Just to hear his 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 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 drove so hard that he his poor heart,
Then laid his hammer and he died.
He laid his hammer and he died.

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

6. Well, Monday morning around daylight
When the bluebirds to sing.
You can hear Henry a mile or more.
Just listen to his ring, Lord, Lord.
Yeah, listen to his ring.
(Lead Break)

7. John was a big man, six foot two,
And four around his chest.
swing that nine-pound 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,
bring me a steam drill 'round
Gonna put steam drill out on the job
And show you how to lay steel in the ground, 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 let your steam drill win,
I'll die with this in my hand, Lord, Lord.
Henry 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 I'll beat steam drill down, Lord, Lord,
I'll beat that steam down."

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

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

13. Well, John said to the captain,
Looka yonder I see,
Hole done choke, and the drill broke,
And it can't steel like me, Lord, Lord
Can't steel 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 hold that like a man, oh Lord,
Polly'd hold that steel a man.

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

16. John Henry hammered in the
'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 drink of water 'for I die.

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

18. they took John Henry 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 steel man!"

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

John Henry was a former slave who worked on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad in the 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.