Chords for Jesse Fuller - Take This Hammer

[C#m] _ _ [N] _ _ _ _ _ _
[E] _ I built this old time railroad song. _
[Cm] It's called, Take this hammer to the captain and [E] tell him I'm gone. _ _ _
I used to play that without [N] this fidella, but I play it now with the fidella.
Sounds a little bit better.
_ _ [F#] _ [E] _ [D#] That's when a fella done worked on the railroad all day long and he get tired.
He said, I don't like this railroad job no more.
I think I'll go jump in the [E] river.
Some of them [D#] jump in the river and never [E] come back. _ _
Most of them jump in and it gets out.
_ _ _ _ [D] _
[E] Yay!
Take _ _ _ it to [C] the captain.
_ [E] Take [B] that hammer.
_ [E] _
Take it to the captain.
_ _ _ [C] Ask my brother, [E] take it to the [C] captain.
[B] _ [E] Tell him I'm [F#] gone, gone, [B] [E] gone.
Tell him [G#] I'm gone.
_ [E] Let me ask you.
Was I running?
_ _ [B] Let me ask you.
[E] _ Was I running?
_ Let me ask you.
Was [C] [E] I running?
[C] _ [B] _ [E] Tell him [F#] I'm gone.
I [E] was flying.
Going up on the mountain.
_ See my baby.
_ Going up on [B] the mountain.
[C#m] _ See my [E] baby.
_ Going up on the mountain.
See my baby.
[C] _ [E] [C] Ain't coming [F#] back.
[B] [E] Oh, no, she's coming back. _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [B] _
_ _ [E] _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [E] _ _
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This little hammer killed _ John Henry. _
This little [B] hammer [C#m] _ killed [E] John Henry. _ _
[C] This little hammer [E] killed John Henry.
[C] _ [E]
Won't [C] kill me, [A#] no, buddy, [E] buddy, won't kill me.
This little hammer _ rings like silver. _ _
[B] This little [E] hammer, _ _ _ _ _ [C] this little hammer, [E] [C] boy, [E] rings like [C] silver.
[B] _
[E] [C] Shine like [C#] gold, oh [E] lordy, shine like _ _ _ _ gold. _ _ _
_ [B] _ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [F#] _ [E] _ _ _ _
It don't ever _ rain like silver. _
It [B] don't ever _ [E] rain like silver. _
_ It don't ever rain like silver.
Shine like gold, [E] shine like gold. _
_ _ _ _ Ding dong ring, _ [B] wake up in the morning.
[E] _ Ding [B] dong ring, [E] _
wake up [C] in the [E] morning.
[C] Yeah, but if [E] it's snowing, _ [C] you look on the table,
[E] but it ain't the same old thing. _
You help, help Cuckoo the harlot. _
[B] When you help [C#m] _ [G#m] Cuckoo the [E] harlot. _
_ [C] Yeah, help [E] Cuckoo the harlot.
It's fine to rain, [F#] but [Bm] it's [E] fine to rain. _