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john henry - margaret walker lyrics

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this here’s a tale of a sho*nuff man
whut lived one time in the delta lan’
his hand was big as a hog’s fat ham
and he useta work for uncle sam
his gums was blue, his voice was mellow
and he talked to mules, fellow to fellow
the day he was born in the mississippi bottom

he made a meal on b*ttermilk and sorghum
a mess o’ peas and a bait o’ tunnips
and when he finished he smacked his lips
and went outside to help pick cotton
and he growed up taller than a six*foot shooter

skinnin’ mules and catchin’ barracuda
and stronger than a tеam of oxen
and he evеn could beat the champion boxin’

an’ ain’t nary man in dixie’s forgotten
how he could raise two bales of cotton
while one hand anchored down the steamboat

oh, they ain’t no tale was ever wrote
’bout big john henry that could start to tell
all the things that big boy knowed so well:
how he learned to whistle from the whippoorwills
and turned the wheels whut ran the mills;
how the witches taught him how to cunjer
and cyo the colic and ride the thunder;
and how he made friends with a long lean houn’
sayin’, “it’s jes’ john henry a*giftin’ roun’.”

but a ten*poun’ hammer done ki*ilt john henry
yeah, a ten*poun’ hammer ki*ilt john henry
bust him open, wide lawd!
drapped him ovah, wide lawd!
po’ john henry, he cold and dead

- margaret walker lyrics

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