Luyện nghe bài hát More About John Henry

{The Storytellers and I were a show down in Meridian, Mississippi
And friends of mine came up
And brought me this old book about John Henry
And they me if they let me read this old book
I'd write a song about it
And did and I did and I called it 'More about John Henry'}

First of all Henry was a black man
He was born the sun don't ever shine
He was six feet he didn't know his own strength
But he did not swing the hammer all the
Of course he didn't, John had some women on his mind

There was a woman cross the named Poor Selma
Loved Henry like a natural man
John Henry quit Selma just like he was quittin' work
He loved stinger-ree of Julie Anne
And is it a stinger-ree is somethin' else you understand

was a man named Stacker Lee in Argenta
A little man a big 44
You know he shot his down and took a shot at Poor Selma
But old Stacker won't be shootin'
He had to quit it, Henry laid him dead on the floor

John Henry Stacker Lee in the river
he said, "I've got a say so to say"
He broke out in a song was wrote by Blind Leonard
He said, "Julie Anne, I'm my say"
He said, "I you but I do not like your lowdown ways"

John Henry went to a conjurin' woman
Said, "This misery no way to live"
Somebody's door creeping on my pretty Julie Anne
Conjure had a say so to give
She said, "John Henry", she said, "That's just the way is"

Well John Henry went to a bustin' man
Said, "I'm tormented in my soul"
Well that buster prayed John Henry's sins away
And they tell me that the did roll
Sweet Jesus what a sight to behold

From that day on John was a changed man
All he did was just all the time
Well he till the muscles in his body gave out
Then he kept right on a workin' in his
Don't do it 'cause a man ain't supposed to all the time

Julie Anne said, "John I love you"
Poor Selma said, "John you're my man"
Ruby said, "I'm gonna cook ye up some greens and some lean
With corn bread in a foot pan with lotsa cracklins
But John Henry was a different man

Well they that hard work killed John Henry
I'm leave that allowin' up to you
Well was he killed by hard work or was he by bad women
Be sure that ain't happenin' to you
Quit working when day's work work is through

'Cause a man ain't supposed to work all the
And you know that ain't just the way the is
A stinger-ree is somethin' else you
Quit working when your your day's work is
God you