Chords for Billy Strings - John Henry

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_ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ Well, when John Henry was a little baby boy, no bigger than the palm [B] of your hand, _ [E] John
Henry's mammy looked down at him and said, John, you're gonna be a steel-driving man,
Lord, Lord, John, you're gonna [B] be a steel [E]-driving man.
_ Now, the man who invented that old steel drill, he thought it [B] was mighty fine.
_ [E] Well, John Henry drove it down fifteen feet, while the steel drill only made it nine, [C#m] Lord,
Lord, [E] the steel [B] drill only [E] made it nine. _ _ _ _
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Well, John Henry huddled in that old mountainside, till his hand caught [B] on fire. _
_ [E] Left for a while, that old John Henry, see, he'd give me a cool drink of water before I
die, Lord, Lord, a cool [B] drink of water [E] before I die.
_ John Henry's captain, he set out on the rock, said, boy, this tunnel's [B] caving in, _ _ [E] John Henry
smiled at his captain and said, boss, that's my hammer, said the man, _ _ boss, that's [B] my hammer,
said [E] the man.
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_ _ [E] _ _ here and _ _ [C#m] I'm _ _ _ _ _ _ _ thinking, [B] _ _ [E] _
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_ _ well, John Henry had a little woman, _ and she was
a little woman, and her name was Polly [B] Ann.
_ _ [E] Johnny got sick, Lord, he had to go to bed.
Polly drove the steel like a [C#m] man, Lord, Lord, Polly drove [B] the steel [E] like a man.
Well, they took her and he took her to the graveyard, in 1868.
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Every time that old train was rolling by, they'd say, I'm the linesman steel-driving
man, [C#m] Lord, Lord, [B] I'm the linesman steel [E]-driving man. _ _
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