Tonart: D major
Intro 1
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Dm
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Bb
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Verse 1
was a little baby
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Bb
C
Sitting on his daddy's knee
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And a little piece of steel
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C
F
Hammer's gonna be the death of me"
Verse 2
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Well, the Captain, he said to John Henry
"I'm gonna bring that steam
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C
drill around
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I'm gonna bring that steam drill
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C
I'm gonna knock that steel all down
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C
God, God
Dm
F
C
F
I'm gonna knock that steel all down"
Verse 3
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John Henry, he told his Captain
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Bb
C
"Lord, a man ain't nothing but a man"
Bb
Your steam drill beat me down
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F
hammer in my hand
C
Dm
Lord, Lord
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F
hammer in my hand"
Verse 4
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John Henry was driving on the right side
Eb
Bb
C
That steam drill was driving on the left
Bb
Your steam drill beat me down
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F
self to the death
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Dm
Lord, Lord
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C
I'm gonna hammer my full self to
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the death"
Interlude 1
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Dm
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Bb
C
F
Well, the Captain, he said to John
Verse 5
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Henry
Bb
C
"What is that storm I hear"
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Bb
John Henry said "That ain't no storm,
Captain
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C
F
That's just my hammer in the air
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C
F
That's just my hammer in the air"
Verse 6
John Henry, he said to his shaker
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C
"Shaker, why don't you sing
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'Cause I'm swinging 30 pounds
Bb
From my hips on down, yeah
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C
Listen to my cold steel ring
Dm
F
C
F
Listen to my cold steel ring"
Dm
C
Bb
Verse 7
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F
John Henry, he hammered in
the mountains
Bb
C
His hammer was striking fire
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C
John Henry laid down
his hammer and died
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Dm
Lord, Lord
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C
John Henry laid down his hammer
F
and died
Verse 8
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John Henry, now he had him a woman
Bb
C
By the name of Polly Ann
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She went out on those tracks
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Picked up John Henry's hammer
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C
And Polly drove steel like a man
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Dm
Lord, Lord
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C
F
Polly drove that steel like a man
Verse 9
now every Monday morning
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C
When, a bluebird, he began to sing
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You could hear John Henry
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Yeah, you could hear John
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Dm
Lord, Lord
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C
You could hear John Henry's
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I said, you could hear John Henry's
Verse 10
hammer ring
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Bb
You could hear John Henry's hammer ring
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TunerE A D G B E
Akkorde & SongtexteF Dm C Bb Eb
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