John Henry had a little hammer Handle was made of oak Every time he hit the drill on the head Hammer ...
Can't make out the last line at all, though the sound rhymes with "oak." (Sounds to me like "Hammer ... out and broke," though the rhyming word could also be "smoke".)
FWIW, the Anthology Songbook just gives this verse as "unintelligible."
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