Chords for The Legend of John Henry's Hammer

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_ _ _ John Henry Pappy woke him up one midnight
_ He said for the sheriff comes.
I want to [Eb] tell you listen boy
_ [Ab] Said learn the ball of Jack
Learn to lay a track learn to pick and shovel
To and take my hammer.
It'll [Eb] do anything [Ab] you tell it to _ _
John Henry's mammy had about a dozen babies _
John Henry's happy for Jill about a dozen [Eb] times
_ _ The baby all got sick [Bb] when the doctor
_ [Ab] He said I'll pay you
At a time start mark.
That's a pay for [B] a steel driver on [Ab] this line
_ _ Then the section foreman said hey hammer swinger I _ _
See you brought your own hammer boy, but what else can all them muscles do and he said I can turn a jack
I can wear track [Eb] I can pick
[Ab] _ Shovel to swing a [Bb] hammer boy.
Yes
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_ _ _ _ H you son _
So high and mighty with your muscle
[Eb] Just go ahead boy pick up at him [Ab] pick up the hammer
He said get a rusty spike and swing it down three [Eb] times
I'll pay you [Ab] a nickel a day for every inch is sinking to _
Go on and do what you say you can do _
With a steep nose hammer on a four-foot switch handle _ _
John Henry raised back till it touched his heels and
The bike went through the cross time and split it happened to _ _ _ _ _ _ _
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Well, _ _ [Ab] _ _ [F] John _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Henry hammered in the mouth
_ He'd give up brought and give a grown with [C] every swing
the [F] women folks for miles around
_ Heard him and come down to what you make holes to your ring log.
What a swinger
Just listen [C] to that [F] bulls do you ring?
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_ _ _ _ _ But the bad boss come up laughing at John in
_ Said you full of vinegar now, [Eb] but you bout through
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Gonna get a steam drill through your share _
What's all their muscles gonna do?
Huh?
John Henry gonna [Eb] take a little bit of finger
[Ab] _ _ _ John Henry said I beat poor little brothers and _
baby sisters walking [Eb] on her knees _ _
Did the Lord say that machines?
Ought to take the place of living and
_ What's a substitute for bread and beans?
I see _
Do engines get rewarded for [Ab] their steam?
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_ _ John Henry hit him a coal mine for his inner now
_ Had 30 minutes to rest before [Eb] the bill
_ The [Ab] mine balls holler get up whoever you are and get a pickaxe
Give me enough coal to start another hill keep it burning mine me enough to start another hill
_ _ John Henry said to his captain a
_ Man ain't nothing [Eb] but a man
But if [Ab] you bring a steamer around I'll beat it fair enough
I'll die with my hammer in my hand, but I'll be laughing couldn't keep the place of steel driving man
_ There was a big crowd of people at the mountain
_ John Henry said to the steam drill.
[Eb] How is you?
_ Pardon me.
Mr.
Steam drill.
I suppose [C] you didn't hear me.
I said how you
_ _ [Ab] Well, can you turn the jack can you lay a track can you pick
_ shovel to
[Eb] _ [Ab] Listen to hammer [Eb] swingers talking to [Ab] you _ _ _
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[F] Henry told the captain tell the kind folks.
Don't worry.
It ain't nothing but my hammer sucking when
_ breathing this steel [C] drivers muscle I
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Can't tell the people move back father
_ I'm at the finish line and a no drill
_ _ It's so far behind getting got the brains to quit it when she blows up
The hills _ _ _ _
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_ _ John Henry had a little woman I
_ Believe the lady's name was [C] Pollyann
_ Yeah, that was this good [D] woman
John Henry threw his hammer over his shoulder and went on home
He laid down to rest his weary back and early next morning.
He said
Come here Polly
Come here sugar
You know, I believe this is the first time I ever watched the Sun come up that I couldn't come up
Take my hammer Pollyann and go to that railroad
_ Swing that hammer like you seen me do [Ab] it and when you're swinging [F] with the lead man, they'll all know
They'll all know you John Henry's woman, but but tell him I ain't all you can do
Tell him I can hoist a jack [Dm] and I can trade [F] a track I can pick and shove
Ain't no machine can _ that's been [C] proved [F] to you
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_ _ _ _ There was a big crowd of mourners at the church house
_ Section the hands lady in the [Eb] sand
_ _ [Ab] trains go by on the rails John Henry laid
They slow down and take off the hats the men do when they come to the place where John Henry's laying
Resting his back some of them say morning steel driver
You sure was a hammer swing then they go on by picking up a little speed clickety-clack clickety-clack
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