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Johnny Henry's pappy him up one midnight
He said "Before the comes I wanna tell you," Said "Listen boy
Learn to hoist a jack and to lay a track learn to pick and shovel too
And take that hammer, It'll do you tell it to."

John mammy had about a dozen babies
John Henry's broke jail about a dozen times
The babies all got sick and when the wanted money
He said, "I'll pay you a quarter at a time starting
That's the pay for a steel on this line."

Then the section said, "Hey! Hammer-swinger!
I see you own hammer boy but, what all can them muscles do?" and he said,
"I can hoist a jack I can lay a track I can and shovel too."
He said "Can you a hammer" He said "do anything you hire me to."

"Now ain't you something! So and mighty with all that muscle!"
Go ahead, boy. Pick up that hammer, and show me you can do!"

He said to get a spike and swing it down three times
Pay you a a day for every inch you sink it to
Go on and do you say you can do

a steel-nosed hammer on a four foot switch handle
John Henry raised it back 'til it touched his heels
The spike went the cross-tie and split it half in two
Thirty-five cents a day for steel
Said "Sweat, boy! Sweat! Only two swings!"
"I was born steel"

now John Henry hammered in the mountains
He'd give a grunt he give a groan every
The women-folks from around heard him and come down
To watch make the cold-steel "Lord! What a swinger!
Watch him the cold-steel ring"

But the bad boss up laughin' at John Henry
He said, "You full of vinegar now but you through!
We gonna get a drill to do your share of drivin'
Then what's all them gonna do? Huh? John Henry?
Gonna take a little bit of out of you."

John said, "I feed four little brothers
And baby sisters' on her knees
Now did the say that machines ought to take place of the livin'?
And what's a for bread and beans? I ain't seen it!
Do engines get rewarded for their

John Henry said to his said "A man ain't nothin' but a man
But if you'll that steamdrill 'round I'll beat it fair and honest.
I'll die with hammer in my hand but, I'll be laughin',
Cause you can't replace a man.

There was a big crowd of at the mountain.
John Henry to the steam-drill "How is you?
Said pardon me, Mister I suppose you didn't hear me.
I said how are you
Can you turn a jack? Can you lay a track? Can you pick and too?
Listen, this hammer-swinger's to you.

Two-thousand hollered, "Go John Henry!"
Then hollered," The mountain's cavin' in!"
John told the captin, "Tell the kind-folks not to worry
It ain't but my hammer suckin' wind, it keeps me breathin'
This steel-driver's muscle it thin.

"Captain tell the people to move back
I'm at the line and ain't no drill
It's so far behind that it got the brains to quit it
When she blows up she'll scatter cross the hills Lord,
When she blows up she'll scatter the hills"

Now, John had a little woman
I believe the lady's name was Ann yeah that was his good woman
John Henry threw his hammer over his shoulder and on home
Early next he said,
"Come here Ann, come here sugar.
Said you know I been laying here, that sun come up
And I believe is the first time I've seen the sun come up
That I couldn't come up it
He said, (dirty mind),
He said take hammer, Paulie Ann and go to that railroad
And when you swinging that lead man
You em that's not all I can do. Tell em,
I can hoist a jack and I can lay a I can pick and shovel too.
Ain't no machine can that's proved to you!

There was a big crowd of mourners at the church
The section hands him in the sand
Trains go by on the rails John laid.
slow down and take off the hats,
When come to whoreys lynn retsina' his back.
say,"Mornin' Steel-driver, you sure was a hammer-swinger."
Then they go on by pickin' up a bit of speed.
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Yonder lies a steel-drivin' man lord
lies a steel-drivin' man

Yonder lies a steel-drivin' man lord
Yonder lies a man

Yonder a steel-drivin'

Thank you much
You John Honey was a real man. He worked on a tunnel in West Virginia
Digin' a for the San Jose railroad.
And he was a big man they say
That from his heels, on around to the ground he had a stroke of 19
Boy that's a long stroke. Wooo that's a long