I die wid de hammer in my han’.”
John Henry say to his captain,
“I have been with you ninety-nine-years,
An’, captain, you don’t hurry nobody,
But always hurry me.”
K
John Henry was a little boy,
Was settin’ ’roun’ playin’ in the san’,
Two young ladies come a-ridin’ by,
Say, “I want you to be my man.”