[02:52.00]When John Henry was a little baby boy, sitting on the his papa's knee
[02:52.00]Well he picked up a hammer and little piece of steel
[02:52.00]Said Hammer's gonna be the death of me, lord, lord
[02:52.00]Hammer's gonna be the death of mine
[02:52.00]The captain said to John Henry
[02:52.00]I'm gonna bring that steam drill around
[02:52.00]I'm gonna bring that sterm drill out on the job
[02:52.00]I'm gonna whup that steel on down
[02:52.00]John Henry told his captain
[02:52.00]Lord a man ain't nothing but a man
[02:52.00]But before I'd let your steam drill beat me down
[02:52.00]I'd die with a hammer in my hand
[02:52.00]John Henry asid to his shaker
[02:52.00]Shaker why don't you sing
[02:52.00]Because I'm swinging thirty pounds from my hips on down
[02:52.00]Just listen to that cold steel ring
[02:52.00]Now the captain said to John Henry
[02:52.00]I believe that mountain's caving in
[02:52.00]John Henry said right back to the captain
[02:52.00]Ain't nothing but my hammer sucking wind
[02:52.00]Now the man that invented the steam drill
[02:52.00]He thought he was mighty fine
[02:52.00]But John Henry srove fifteen feet
[02:52.00]The steam drill only made nine
[02:52.00]John Henry hammered in the mountains
[02:52.00]His hammer was striking fire
[02:52.00]But he worked so hard, it broke his poor heart
[02:52.00]And he laid down his hammerand he died
[02:52.00]NOw John Henry had a little woman
[02:52.00]Her name was polly Anne
[02:52.00]John Henry took sick and had to go to bed
[02:52.00]Polly Anne drove steel like a man
[02:52.00]John Henry had a little baby
[02:52.00]You could hold him in the palm of your hand
[02:52.00]And the last words I heard that poor boy say
[02:52.00]My daddy was a steel driving man
[02:52.00]So every Monday morning
[02:52.00]When the blue dirds begin to sing
[02:52.00]You can hear John Henry a mile or more
[02:52.00]You can hear John Henry's hammer ring