Nine Pound Hammer - Doc & Merle Watson

I’m gonna go on the mountain

For see my baby

I ain’t comin' back

Lord I won’t be back

It’s a Long way to Harlem

Long way to hazard

Just get a little brew

Lord lord just get a little brew

Roll on buddy

With a load coal

How can I pull

When wheels won’t roll

The 9 pound hammer

It’s a just a little too heavy

Buddy for my size

Buddy for my size

That 9 pound hammer

Killed poor ol' John Henry

Lord it won’t kill me no no

It ain’t gonna kill me

Roll on buddy

With a load coal

How can I pull

When wheels won’t roll

This 9 pound hammer

She rings like silver

Yeah it rings like silver

She shines like gold

Roll on buddy

With a load coal

How can I pull

When wheels won’t roll

You can take my hammer

And give it to the captain

But you can tell him I’m gone

You can tell I’m gone

And if he ask you

Where I done gone to

Tell him you don’t know

No, buddy, you don’t know

Roll on buddy

And make your time

I done broke down

And he can’t make mine