Chords for John Henry (Featuring Soul Khan & Dan Whitener) by Gangstagrass
Tempo:
104.9 bpm
Chords used:
D
E
A
Dm
F
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[E] [D]
Well John Henry said to his captain, you can bring your steam [A] grill round, you can bring
your steam grill out on top, and I'll beat your steam grill down, oh lord, I'll beat
your steam grill down.
Yo, John Henry was a standard of a man, born into slavery before he was barely more than
a baby, he fought [E] till the way he died, with a hammer in his hand, [D]
passing in pieces and
fell, down with the grease of his elbow, pounding steel with the power he wielded, and made
him look easy as Velcro, even though he couldn't really leave when he fell though, he said
he knew he'd failed in trying to free him, yet as stupid as hell to say he had his freedom
yet, trapped in the system, black men are in it, every captain in prison, gang are committing
an [F] act, hit your captain [E] with a slap on the wrist, if they actually did it, it would not
have [D] to be heck, more than half of them did it, a tragic predicament, and many of them
passed cause of ghasty conditions, one day a man came and said, I'm a Jesus, I got a
machine that lays a track faster than any man on your [E] team, John picked up his [D] hammer, lifted
his hand up and said, well I'm gonna beat him.
Well John Henry started on the right side, and the steam grill started on the left, he
said before I let that steam grill beat me down, I'm gonna hammer my fool to death, oh
[A]
I'm gonna hammer my fool [D] to death.
Well John and the machine started charging at the speed that you hardly could believe,
his heart against the steam, and to me it's pretension, [E] of the pride of a man against
the strongest ever seen, [D] he swung with a force so relentless, his form and momentum, the glory
and sweat, his first drop, he heard pots squirting from the drill, like he might have hissed one
out of seven, people recollect they were neck and neck, steam grill is equal at almost every
step, he passed the machine with a gasp in between every breath, couldn't feel his legs
like Professor X, John was [Dm] at the home stretch, something in [D] his dome went wrong, as he drove
that long, last spike hit like lightning, the blood vessel burst and he fell to the
earth, but he showed them all, now, John Henry was a champion of a man, his hourglass just
ran out of sand, his wife was crying cause it happened as he planned, he died with his
pride and his hammer in his hand.
So John Henry he said, yes captain, well a man ain't nothing [E] but a man, [D] and before I
let that steam drill beat me down, I'm gonna die with a hammer in my hand, oh,
[A] [D]
[Am] [D]
[Dm]
I'm gonna
die with a hammer in my hand.
[N]
Well John Henry said to his captain, you can bring your steam [A] grill round, you can bring
your steam grill out on top, and I'll beat your steam grill down, oh lord, I'll beat
your steam grill down.
Yo, John Henry was a standard of a man, born into slavery before he was barely more than
a baby, he fought [E] till the way he died, with a hammer in his hand, [D]
passing in pieces and
fell, down with the grease of his elbow, pounding steel with the power he wielded, and made
him look easy as Velcro, even though he couldn't really leave when he fell though, he said
he knew he'd failed in trying to free him, yet as stupid as hell to say he had his freedom
yet, trapped in the system, black men are in it, every captain in prison, gang are committing
an [F] act, hit your captain [E] with a slap on the wrist, if they actually did it, it would not
have [D] to be heck, more than half of them did it, a tragic predicament, and many of them
passed cause of ghasty conditions, one day a man came and said, I'm a Jesus, I got a
machine that lays a track faster than any man on your [E] team, John picked up his [D] hammer, lifted
his hand up and said, well I'm gonna beat him.
Well John Henry started on the right side, and the steam grill started on the left, he
said before I let that steam grill beat me down, I'm gonna hammer my fool to death, oh
[A]
I'm gonna hammer my fool [D] to death.
Well John and the machine started charging at the speed that you hardly could believe,
his heart against the steam, and to me it's pretension, [E] of the pride of a man against
the strongest ever seen, [D] he swung with a force so relentless, his form and momentum, the glory
and sweat, his first drop, he heard pots squirting from the drill, like he might have hissed one
out of seven, people recollect they were neck and neck, steam grill is equal at almost every
step, he passed the machine with a gasp in between every breath, couldn't feel his legs
like Professor X, John was [Dm] at the home stretch, something in [D] his dome went wrong, as he drove
that long, last spike hit like lightning, the blood vessel burst and he fell to the
earth, but he showed them all, now, John Henry was a champion of a man, his hourglass just
ran out of sand, his wife was crying cause it happened as he planned, he died with his
pride and his hammer in his hand.
So John Henry he said, yes captain, well a man ain't nothing [E] but a man, [D] and before I
let that steam drill beat me down, I'm gonna die with a hammer in my hand, oh,
[A] [D]
[Am] [D]
[Dm]
I'm gonna
die with a hammer in my hand.
[N]
Key:
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Dm
F
D
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_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _
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_ _ _ _ _ _ Well John Henry said to his captain, you can bring your steam [A] grill round, you can bring
your steam grill out on top, and I'll beat your steam grill down, oh lord, I'll beat
your steam grill down. _
Yo, John Henry was a standard of a man, born into slavery before he was barely more than
a baby, he fought [E] till the way he died, with a hammer in his hand, [D]
passing in pieces and
fell, down with the grease of his elbow, pounding steel with the power he wielded, and made
him look easy as Velcro, even though he couldn't really leave when he fell though, he said
he knew he'd failed in trying to free him, yet as stupid as hell to say he had his freedom
yet, trapped in the system, black men are in it, every captain in prison, gang are committing
an [F] act, hit your captain [E] with a slap on the wrist, if they actually did it, it would not
have [D] to be heck, more than half of them did it, a tragic predicament, and many of them
passed cause of ghasty conditions, one day a man came and said, I'm a Jesus, I got a
machine that lays a track faster than any man on your [E] team, John picked up his [D] hammer, lifted
his hand up and said, well I'm gonna beat him.
Well John Henry started on the right side, and the steam grill started on the left, he
said before I let that steam grill beat me down, I'm gonna hammer my fool to death, oh
_ [A]
I'm gonna hammer my fool [D] to death. _
Well John and the machine started charging at the speed that you hardly could believe,
his heart against the steam, and to me it's pretension, [E] of the pride of a man against
the strongest ever seen, [D] he swung with a force so relentless, his form and momentum, the glory
and sweat, his first drop, he heard pots squirting from the drill, like he might have hissed one
out of seven, people recollect they were neck and neck, steam grill is equal at almost every
step, he passed the machine with a gasp in between every breath, couldn't feel his legs
like Professor X, John was [Dm] at the home stretch, something in [D] his dome went wrong, as he drove
that long, last spike hit like lightning, the blood vessel burst and he fell to the
earth, but he showed them all, now, John Henry was a champion of a man, his hourglass just
ran out of sand, his wife was crying cause it happened as he planned, he died with his
pride and his hammer in his hand.
So John Henry he said, yes captain, well a man ain't nothing [E] but a man, [D] and before I
let that steam drill beat me down, I'm gonna die with a hammer in my hand, oh, _ _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm _ _ _ _ _ gonna
die with a hammer in my hand. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [E] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Well John Henry said to his captain, you can bring your steam [A] grill round, you can bring
your steam grill out on top, and I'll beat your steam grill down, oh lord, I'll beat
your steam grill down. _
Yo, John Henry was a standard of a man, born into slavery before he was barely more than
a baby, he fought [E] till the way he died, with a hammer in his hand, [D]
passing in pieces and
fell, down with the grease of his elbow, pounding steel with the power he wielded, and made
him look easy as Velcro, even though he couldn't really leave when he fell though, he said
he knew he'd failed in trying to free him, yet as stupid as hell to say he had his freedom
yet, trapped in the system, black men are in it, every captain in prison, gang are committing
an [F] act, hit your captain [E] with a slap on the wrist, if they actually did it, it would not
have [D] to be heck, more than half of them did it, a tragic predicament, and many of them
passed cause of ghasty conditions, one day a man came and said, I'm a Jesus, I got a
machine that lays a track faster than any man on your [E] team, John picked up his [D] hammer, lifted
his hand up and said, well I'm gonna beat him.
Well John Henry started on the right side, and the steam grill started on the left, he
said before I let that steam grill beat me down, I'm gonna hammer my fool to death, oh
_ [A]
I'm gonna hammer my fool [D] to death. _
Well John and the machine started charging at the speed that you hardly could believe,
his heart against the steam, and to me it's pretension, [E] of the pride of a man against
the strongest ever seen, [D] he swung with a force so relentless, his form and momentum, the glory
and sweat, his first drop, he heard pots squirting from the drill, like he might have hissed one
out of seven, people recollect they were neck and neck, steam grill is equal at almost every
step, he passed the machine with a gasp in between every breath, couldn't feel his legs
like Professor X, John was [Dm] at the home stretch, something in [D] his dome went wrong, as he drove
that long, last spike hit like lightning, the blood vessel burst and he fell to the
earth, but he showed them all, now, John Henry was a champion of a man, his hourglass just
ran out of sand, his wife was crying cause it happened as he planned, he died with his
pride and his hammer in his hand.
So John Henry he said, yes captain, well a man ain't nothing [E] but a man, [D] and before I
let that steam drill beat me down, I'm gonna die with a hammer in my hand, oh, _ _
_ [A] _ _ [D] _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ _ [Am] _ _ _ _ [D] _
_ [Dm] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
I'm _ _ _ _ _ gonna
die with a hammer in my hand. _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ [N] _