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Posted By: GUEST,Rick Pollay
25-Aug-20 - 02:40 PM
Thread Name: Origins: Telling the true history of John Henry
Subject: RE: Origins: Telling the true history of John Henry

Wikipedia also has an informed page and makes a distinction between the the hammer work songs and ballads or mourning songs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Henry_(folklore)