Well, there's eighteen hammers standing in a line
Well, there's eighteen hammers standing in a line
Well, they ring like silver and they shine like gold
Well, they ring like silver and they shine like gold
There ain't no hammer sure, that'll ring like mine
No, there ain't no hammer sure, that'll ring like mine
When I ring this hammer good, gonna so loud
When I ring this hammer boy, gonna ring like mine
Well, you cut your corner boys like I cut mine
Well, you cut your corner boys like I cut mine
Well, I'll be living when you be dying
Well, I'll be living when you be dying
Well, I shot me a dead man, got a hundred years
Well, I shot me a dead man, got a hundred years
Well, a tree fall on me, I done been mo care
Well, a tree fall on me, I done been mo care
Well, I raised up my hammer, let it drop on down
Well, I raised up my hammer, let it drop on down
Well, look over yonder boys, all dressed in red
Well, it looks like the children that Moses led
Well, there's eighteen hammers standing in a line
Well, they ring like silver and they shine like gold
Well, they ring like silver and they shine like gold
There ain't no hammer sure, that'll ring like mine
No, there ain't no hammer sure, that'll ring like mine
When I ring this hammer good, gonna so loud
When I ring this hammer boy, gonna ring like mine
Well, you cut your corner boys like I cut mine
Well, you cut your corner boys like I cut mine
Well, I'll be living when you be dying
Well, I'll be living when you be dying
Well, I shot me a dead man, got a hundred years
Well, I shot me a dead man, got a hundred years
Well, a tree fall on me, I done been mo care
Well, a tree fall on me, I done been mo care
Well, I raised up my hammer, let it drop on down
Well, I raised up my hammer, let it drop on down
Well, look over yonder boys, all dressed in red
Well, it looks like the children that Moses led
Contributed by Pluck - 2024/2/27 - 22:15
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by Johnny Lee Moore with 12 Mississippi Convicts
Prison song recorded in the field and edited by Alan Lomax at State Penitentiary, Parchman, Mississippi, 1958