Don Chaffer - John Henry, Where'd You Go? lyrics

John Henry, where'd you go? I wonder every time it snows See the hammer and the body in the evening light Skin of brown under a bed of white The cracked mountains of those cold cruel mines An elegy under the steam drill's whine If you listen right at suppertime At sunset you can hear it chime CHORUS That ringing sound like silver That ringing sound like gold That ringing sound like angel choirs That never grow old His mother hardly speaks Her rocking chair just creaks I will sit here in the darkness when the sun falls down Eat supper cold listen for that sound That was one hell of a year So I'll make my prayer clear Let the hammer crack the suffering tree And crack the sky So everyone can see CHORUS John Henry shines like silver John Henry shines like gold John Henry's like the angel choirs That never grow old His mother sings like silver His mother shines like gold His mother sings That ringing sing sing like angel choirs That never grow old