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Thread #101733   Message #2056953
Posted By: Jim Dixon
20-May-07 - 08:56 AM
Thread Name: Lyr Req: John Henry Jr (Merle Travis)
Subject: RE: Lyr Req: John Henry Jr
JOHN HENRY, JR. recorded by David Davis & The Warrior River Boys, appears on their album "Troubled Times," Rebel CD 1817, 2006. The song is attributed to Merle Travis. I transcribed this from a couple of sound samples:

Now John Henry Junior was nothin' like his dad.
He never worked a day in his life.
John Henry made his livin' drivin' steel rails down.
Junior made his livin' shootin' dice, Lord, Lord.
Junior made his livin' shootin' dice.

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One night he's a-gamblin' with a bunch of the boys.
The stakes was a-runnin' kind o' high.
Somebody caught him rollin' with a crooked pair o' dice.
"Give us back our money 'fore you die, Lord, Lord.
Give us back our money 'fore you die."