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John Henry

Leadbelly

Bourgeois Blues: Lead Belly Legacy, Vol. 2

1997

An' de las' wards she said to him
"John Henry, I've been true to you
Lawd, Lawd, John Henry I've been true to you"

"Oh, who's gonna shoe yo' lil

a Beecher, a Caffee 
 a Dutchboy, a Said, az Iceman, a Ziggy! (Refr.) 
  
 Ott volt: 
 a Dylan, a Zevon, a Cash, a Petty 
 a Tom Waits, a Neil Young,

the corposant
A lee-ward storm behind them
Before a gold ice-gilded island
Wrecked at Boston Light
Just past midnight
He was the only one alive
On the coffin boat

Evans, Daniel, McBride,
Dave Benson, Bill King,
Squire Smith, Shade Thompson,
Albert Brooks, Henry Ivy,
Jack Turner, Leonard Coker,
John Brooks, Samuel

Intro

Lupe Fiasco

Food & Liquor

2006

Food and liquor stores rest on every corner
From 45th and State to the last standing Henry Horner
J&J's, Harold's Chicken, good finger lickin'

“RIP BONE”
I lost woodie and Henry and Mack B
“ DAMN DAMN”
I try too stay strong but I ain’t Hercules
Granny Sick losing her memory
I ain’t gone lie got

Shakers and Movers

Midnight Oil

Blue Sky Mining

1990

anchor me, against the raging tide
Take you to the last wild place, skin and the stars they embrace
A caveman could a saint become, on a hospital ward

Wood
Orange Mound
Clabirant homes
Dixie homes
McNeil County
Speedy Henry
Watkins and Brown
German Town
Mid Town
Foot homes
Big Hampt
Collage Park
Hyde

style,
Like di bwoy Henry Morgan,
Push up yu chest mek dem dig out yu organ,
When yu done, him go lie down inna Ward One,
Man a Elephant Man and mi a nuh

(Nawfside)
Nawfside, Nawfside (Nawfside)
I do it for the Nawfside nawfside (Nawfside)
Got my 40 cocked when, I ride (I ride )
Henry Brown on 4's, when I ride

poking out
I'm a roll them up like chapstick
Holy boy I grew up in 3rd ward at Wheeler Baptist
Me my brother mama daddy all in that duplex
Used to eating

The machine kept clacking spilling its metallic history
It said its great grandfather was Francesco from Italy
It spoke of Pellegrino and a Brit named Henry

semen
I got tricked 1 time out my nut so im doing it for my kid my seed man
My hood counting on me in the 24th ward im thinking im bill henry
I dont count

the lives of some of my close family & friends:
Jerome 5th Ward Weebie Cosey
Peggie Marie Williams
Anthony Big Fess Rout
Miss Rosa Lee Miles Henry
Samantha