Bill Wood - John Henry

[00:00.00]时代音乐网 www.78497.com  [00:09.04]When John Henry was a little baby boy sitting on the his papa's knee [00:20.02]Well he picked up a hammer and little piece of steel [00:22.78]Said Hammer's gonna be the death of me lord lord [00:25.47]Hammer's gonna be the death of mine [00:28.43]The captain said to John Henry [00:31.02]I'm gonna bring that steam drill around [00:34.01]I'm gonna bring that sterm drill out on the job [00:38.47]I'm gonna whup that steel on down [00:42.25]John Henry told his captain [00:45.07]Lord a man ain't nothing but a man [00:47.87]But before I'd let your steam drill beat me down [00:50.88]I'd die with a hammer in my hand [01:04.90]John Henry asid to his shaker [01:08.04]Shaker why don't you sing [01:10.38]Because I'm swinging thirty pounds from my hips on down [01:16.18]Just listen to that cold steel ring [01:41.02]Now the captain said to John Henry [01:44.83]I believe that mountain's caving in [01:55.15]John Henry said right back to the captain [02:06.22]Ain't nothing but my hammer sucking wind [02:17.74]Now the man that invented the steam drill [02:20.87]He thought he was mighty fine [02:23.68]But John Henry srove fifteen feet [02:28.04]The steam drill only made nine [02:31.81]John Henry hammered in the mountains [02:34.62]His hammer was striking fire [02:37.25]But he worked so hard it broke his poor heart [02:41.59]And he laid down his hammerand he died [02:44.89]NOw John Henry had a little woman [02:47.81]Her name was polly Anne [02:50.89]John Henry took sick and had to go to bed [02:54.06]Polly Anne drove steel like a man [02:55.50]John Henry had a little baby [02:57.02]You could hold him in the palm of your hand [02:59.93]And the last words I heard that poor boy say [03:02.85]My daddy was a steel driving man [03:05.13]So every Monday morning [03:07.16]When the blue dirds begin to sing [03:08.40]You can hear John Henry a mile or more [03:11.27]You can hear John Henry's hammer ring