John Henry -Pete Seeger

ANJAN CHAKRABORTY

[melvinwren]

such a powerful folk song
10/10 on this version

[DebojyotiBhattacharya]

a LEGEND is singing about another LEGEND! A delightful experience

[sudipchatterjee]

Immortal. Thanks much for uploading! ❤🙏

[thebrazilianatlantis]

The ballad researcher John Garst has figured out where the historical John Henry very (very very) likely died, and he hasn't got enough credit for it (although Norm Cohen, distinguished author of Long Steel Rail, saying he finds Garst's arguments convincing was great).

Garst:

"In 1927 [song researcher Guy Benton] Johnson got letters from:

C. C. Spencer (Salt Lake City, UT), a self-proclaimed eyewitness to  John
Henry's contest and death in Alabama.

F. P. Barker (Birmingham, AL), a steel driver on Red Mountain
(Birmingham) who [said he] had known John Henry in Alabama.

Glendora Cannon Cummings (Lansing, MI), whose [said her] uncle had been with  John
Henry in Alabama when John Henry died.

[Song researcher Louis Watson] Chappell got a letter from:

C. S. Farquharson (Public Works Department, Jamaica)[....]

Here are elements of their testimonies:

Spencer: John Henry worked for Dabner at Cruzee Mountain, Alabama,  and
died in 1882 after beating a steam drill.

Barker: John Henry worked at Cursey Mountain somewhere about 45 years  ago
(about 1882).

Cummings: John Henry worked for Dabney and died at Oak Mountain,
Alabama, in 1887.

Farquharson: John Henry worked for Dabner[...] ca 1895.

[...] Spencer, Cummings, and
Farquharson[...] said that John Henry worked for Dabney/Dabner in the
1880s, some 40 years before.  It is very unlikely that these three,
living in Utah, Michigan, and Jamaica had had any recent contact with  one
another or had in any way colluded to come up with the story that  John
Henry had worked for Dabney/Dabner, in Alabama, according to the  credible
reports of Spencer and Cummings.

In addition, Spencer and Barker, living in Utah and Alabama, said  that
John Henry had worked at Cruzee/Cursey Mountain in Alabama."

Elsewhere Garst has written:

"The discoveries that Coosa [Mountain] and Oak [Mountain] Tunnels exist [about 15 miles east of Birmingham, very near each other], that they have railroad tunnels through them, that these were built in 1887-88, that a [Captain Frederick Yeamans] Dabney was the engineer in charge of construction, that he was from Mississippi, and that his family owned slaves near Crystal Springs lend credence to the testimonies of Spencer, Barker, and Cummings."

Garst believes John Henry most likely died in 1887.

[donnakinzie]

Perfect! Using with my Special Ed kids, gr. 4 and 5, as we're reading tall tales!!!!

[claudiomartinez]

Muy bueno !!! Algún video tutorial de este tema ??? Gracias

[OTG]

My new working song and my new drinking song!👌🔥🔥💪💪💪😂😭

[babulkumarsamaddar]

John Henry is alive in the history of industrial revolution but in new global structure, in the world of NET, everyday Henry's are produced and get trapped.

[braydenwilliamsonmusic]

WRITTEN BY WILLIAMSON BROTHERS And CURRY

[inkoinfinity]

Rolling Stone magazine said this song is "as danceable as any edm banger" -_-

[TnseWlms]

When he died with a hammer in his hand: "Serves him right, the smart aleck thought he could beat a steam drill." -The Smothers Brothers

[romanromanov]

я не знаю зачем я сюда зашёл с пикабу :(