Eighteen Hammers

Johnny Lee Moore

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EIGHTEEN HAMMERS
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

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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

Contributed by Pluck - 2024/2/27 - 22:15

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