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