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John Henry<\/h2>\n

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Topic: Answer one of the two questions: (a) Find a written version of the John Henry<\/p>\n

folktale online. How does the version recorded on the text CD deviate or complement the written version? OR (b) What is Lias\u2019 revelation?
Journal Topic: Answer one of the two questions: (a) Find a written version of the John Henry
folktale online. How does the version recorded on the text CD deviate or complement the written version? OR (b) What is Lias\u2019 revelation?
JOHN HENRY, STEEL DRIVING MAN
The song
When John Henry was a little baby
Sitting on his daddy\u2019s knee
Pointed he figured out a little piece of steel
Steel\u2019s gonna be the death of me, Lord, Lord<\/p>\n

Steel\u2019s gonna be the death of me
Well, now steel\u2019s gonna be the death of me, Lord, Lord
Steel\u2019s gonna be the death of me<\/p>\n

John Henry told his captain one day
\u2018A man ain\u2019t nothin\u2019 but a man
Before I will let you steam drill beat me down
Would die with this hammer in my hand, Lord, Lord\u2019<\/p>\n

Die with this hammer in my hand
I would die with this hammer in my hand, Lord, Lord,
Die with this hammer in my hand<\/p>\n

John Henry had a little woman
Her name was Polly Ann
John Henry got sick and had to go to bed
You know Polly, she drove steel like a man, Lord, Lord
Polly, she drove steel like a man<\/p>\n

How she drive? John Henry drivin\u2019 on the right hand side
Steam drill drivin\u2019 on the left
Before I will let your steam drill beat me down
I will drive my poor self to death, Lord, Lord
Drive my poor self to death<\/p>\n

John Henry drove steel on the Southern
He drove steel on the C&O.
He drove steel for that Big Ben Tunnel
Steel drivin\u2019 kill John you know, steel drivin\u2019 kill John you know
Well, now steel drivin\u2019 kill John you know, Lord, Lord
Steel drivin\u2019 kill John you know
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Some says John Henry was born in Texas
Some people thinks he was born in Maine
John Henry was born down in Tennessee
He was a leader of a steel-driving-gang, Lord, Lord<\/p>\n

Leader of a steel-driving-gang
Was a leader of a steel-driving-gang, Lord, Lord
Leader of a steel-driving-gang<\/p>\n

Well, the captain loved to see John Henry
One of all loved to hear him sing
But most of all that the paymaster loved<\/p>\n

He just loved to get John Henry\u2019s hammer ring
He just loved to get John Henry\u2019s hammer ring
He just loved to get John Henry\u2019s hammer ring, Lord, Lord,
Loved to get John Henry\u2019s hammer ring<\/p>\n

They carried John Henry on the mountain
Upon a mountain so high
Last words I heard that poor boy say
Give me a cool drink of water \u2018fore I die
Give me a cool drink of water \u2018fore I die
Give me a cool drink of water \u2018fore I die<\/p>\n

Well, they carried John Henry\u2019s body to the White-house
And they laid it in the sand
Every time a locomotive follows go rollin\u2019 by<\/p>\n

They say, yonder lays a steel-drivin\u2019 man
Well, now yonder lays a steel-drivin\u2019 man
They say yonder lays a steel-drivin\u2019 man
Yonder lays a steel-drivin\u2019 man
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JOHN HENRY, STEEL DRIVING MAN<\/p>\n

Now John Henry was a mighty man, yes sir. He was born a slave in the 1840\u2019s but was freed after the war. He went to work as a steel-driver for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad, don\u2019t ya know. And John Henry was the strongest, the most powerful man working the rails.
John Henry, he would spend his day\u2019s drilling holes by hitting thick steel spikes into rocks with his faithful shaker crouching close to the hole, turning the drill after each mighty blow. There was no one who could match him, though many tried.
Well, the new railroad was moving along right quick, thanks in no little part to the mighty John Henry. But looming right smack in its path was a mighty enemy \u2013 the Big Bend Mountain. Now the big bosses at the C&O Railroad decided that they couldn\u2019t go around the mile and a quarter thick mountain. No sir, the men of the C&O were going to go through it \u2013 drilling right into the heart of the mountain.
A thousand men would lose their lives before the great enemy was conquered. It took three long years, and before it was done the ground outside the mountain was filled with makeshift, sandy graves. The new tunnels were filled with smoke and dust. Ya couldn\u2019t see no-how and could hardly breathe. But John Henry, he worked tirelessly, drilling with a 14-pound hammer, and going 10 to 12 feet in one workday. No one else could match him.
Then one day a salesman came along to the camp. He had a steam-powered drill and claimed it could out-drill any man. Well, they set up a contest then and there between John Henry and that there drill. The foreman ran that newfangled steam-drill. John Henry, he just pulled out two 20-pound hammers, one in each hand. They drilled and drilled, dust rising everywhere. The men were howling and cheering. At the end of 35 minutes, John Henry had drilled two seven foot holes \u2013 a total of fourteen feet, while the steam drill had only drilled one nine-foot hole.
John Henry held up his hammers in triumph! The men shouted and cheered. The noise was so loud, it took a moment for the men to realize that John Henry was tottering. Exhausted, the mighty man crashed to the ground, the hammer\u2019s rolling from his grasp. The crowd went silent as the foreman rushed to his side. But it was too late. A blood vessel had burst in his brain. The greatest driller in the C&O Railroad was dead.
Some folks say that John Henry\u2019s likeness is carved right into the rock inside the Big Bend Tunnel. And if you walk to the edge of the blackness of the tunnel, sometimes you can hear the sound of two 20-pound hammers drilling their way to victory over the machine.<\/p>\n

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