歌手:Woody Guthrie
专辑:《Woody Guthrie Sings Folk Songs》

作曲 : Traditional
John Henry when he was a baby settin' on his mammy's knee picked up an hammer in his little right hand
Said "Hammer be the death of me me me, hammer be the death of me!"
Some say he's born in
Texas Some say he's born up in
Maine I just say he was a
Louisiana man
Leader of a steel-driving chain gang leader on a steel-driving gang "Well", the captain said to
John Henry "I'm gonna bring my steam drill around gonna whup that steel on down down down whup that steel on down!"
John Henry said to the captain (what he say?) "You can bring your steam drill around gonna bring my steam drill out on the job I'll beat your steam drill down down down beat your steam drill down!"
John Henry said to his
Shaker "Shaker you had better pray If you miss your six feet of steel It'll be your buryin' day day day It'll be your buryin' day!"
Now the Shaker said to
John Henry "Man ain't nothing but a man but before I'd let that steam drill beat me down I'd die with an hammer in my hand hand hand I'd die with an hammer in my hand!"
John Henry had a little woman
Her name was
Polly Anne
John Henry took sick and was laid up in bed
While Polly handled steel like a man man man
Polly handled steel like a man.
They took
John Henry to the graveyard laid him down in the sand
Every locomotive comin' a-rolling by by by hollered "there lies a steel-drivin' man man man there lies a steel-drivin' man!"