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Johnny Henry`s pappy woke him up one midnight
He said `Before the sheriff comes I wanna tell you,` Said `Listen boy
Learn to hoist a jack and learn to lay a track learn to pick and shovel too
And take that hammer, It`ll do anything you tell it to.`
John Henry`s mammy had about a dozen babies
John Henry`s pappy broke jail about a dozen times
The babies all got sick and when the doctor wanted money
He said, `I`ll pay you a quarter at a time startin` tomorrow
that`s the pay for a steel driver on this line.`
Then the section foreman said, `Hey! Hammer-swinger!
I see you your own hammer boy but, what all can them muscles do?` and he said,
`I can turn a jack I can lay a track I can pick and shovel too.`
`Can you swing a hammer, boy?` `Yes sir, I`ll do anything you hire me to.`
Spoken:
`Now ain`t you somethin`! So high and mighty with all that muscle! Just go
ahead, boy. Pick up that hammer, pick up the hammer!`
He said to get a rusted spike and swing it down three times
I`ll pay you a nickel a day for every inch you sink it to
Go on and do what you say you can do
With a steel-nosed hammer on a four foot switch handle
John Henry raised it back til` it touched his heels then
The spike went through the cross-tie and split it half in two
Thirty-five cents a day for drivin` steel
`Sweat! Sweat, boy! Sweat! Only two more swings!`
`I was born drivin` steel`
Well John Henry hammered in the mountain
He`d give a grunt he give a groan every swing
The women-folks from miles around heard him and come down
To watch make the coal-steel ring `Lord! What a swinger!
Watch him make the coal-steel ring`