Say, “Tunnel on C. & O. road
Gonna be the death o’ me.”
John Henry said to his shaker,[92]
“Shaker, you better pray;
If I make this six-foot jump,
Tomorrow ’ll be yo’ buryin’ day.”
John Henry had a little woman,
Name was Polly Ann,
She took a big hammer an’ went to the hills,
Polly Ann drive steel like a man.