DIS OL HAMMER

• First line: This old hammer killed John Henry
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• James Jordan collection: (SFC Audio Cassette FS-20365/6114) Tape 2:13 (at: 14:35)
• Jordan, Mrs.   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/70f97c2c-8656-4e05-b23b-cf023a59a192
• URL link

DIS OLE ROCK MINE

• First line: Lord I done got tired of the way I bin fallin' in dis ole rock mine
• Roud no: 4299    |   Journal   |   Text; Music
• North Carolina Folklore Journal 16:2 (1968) pp.92-94
• Workman, Johnny
• URL link

JOHN HENRY

• First line: Nine pound hammer, nine pound hammer
• Roud no: 4299    |   Manuscript   |   Text
• I.G. Greer Collection (Appalachian State University AC-113)
• http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/70f97c2c-8656-4e05-b23b-cf023a59a192
• URL link

TAKE THIS HAMMER

• First line: This here hammer, killed John Henry
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Not Now Music NOT2CD543 ('Trouble So Hard')
• Sprott, Horace   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301

TAKE THIS HAMMER [TRADITIONAL BALLAD INDEX ENTRY]

• Roud no: 4299    |   Online index   |   Historical notes / References
• Traditional Ballad Index (online)

NINE POUND HAMMER, THE

• First line: Well this old hammer, just a little too heavy
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• County 513 ('The Recordings of Grayson & Whitter')
• Grayson, G.B. / Henry Whitter   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/7a9deac9-6fe0-4c9b-bbe7-de6405278090

BLACK GAL

• First line: ...gone, gone, tell him I'm gone. Take this hammer
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity 1858B1
• Unidentified men   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/8b7feb66-551a-4c5c-b8f5-47ef12048fae
• URL link

TAKE THIS HAMMER

• First line: [?]
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity 1860B3
• Unidentified man   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/8b7feb66-551a-4c5c-b8f5-47ef12048fae
• URL link

TEN POUND HAMMER

• First line: This is the hammer killed my father
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity 1037B2
• Sands, Esau / Simmons, James / Gadsden, Francis / White, John / Maybank, Mike   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/047e2917-e03f-49d2-a747-0cc3c53b0e49
• URL link

NINE POUND HAMMER

• First line: Nine pound hammer is a little too heavy
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity 1705B1
• Steele, Pete / Steele, Craig / Steele, Pearl / Steele, Lillie   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/ba42186f-8352-462e-ab11-5f6a7f3f396b
• URL link

JOHN HENRY

• First line: Go and tell the captain
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity 6642B1
• Robertson, Alec   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/55e49446-1345-4c5f-9922-42ff648dcfca
• URL link

JOHN HENRY

• First line: Said this hammer killed John Henry
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity 6673A5
• Head, Will / Askew, Alec (Turpentine) / Smith, Lucius / Hemphill, Sid   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/ed8050c1-5cbd-4eed-90d3-6e85b0ea6682
• URL link

TAKE THIS HAMMER

• First line: Take this hammer, carry it to the [guard?]
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity T799R02
• Taylor, Jim (Dobie Red) / Smith, Milton (Foots) / Dew, Hollie (Bull)   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/8b7feb66-551a-4c5c-b8f5-47ef12048fae
• URL link

TAKE THIS HAMMER

• First line: Twenty-one hammer is all I [?]
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity T882R02
• Unidentified men / Hoskins, L. C.   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/8b7feb66-551a-4c5c-b8f5-47ef12048fae
• URL link

JOHN HENRY

• First line: [Forty?] pound hammer, it killed John Henry
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity T942R15
• Barnett, Charles   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/4200a11b-5602-477a-831e-b3de35661fb5
• URL link

JOHN HENRY

• First line: That old hammer, that old hammer killed my baby, but it won't kill me
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity T941R22
• Queen, Jim   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/f1a8f1c5-2211-4c9f-bdc8-d0e5237552dd
• URL link

ANNIE BELLE

• First line: This old hammer killed John Henry
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity T980R17
• Jones, Bessie   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/55d76600-91c4-4fab-8204-95fb4af9afca
• URL link

[NINE-POUND HAMMER]

• First line: This nine-pound hammer is a little too heavy
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity TD143R01
• Travis, Merle   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/d194cc8d-9a90-4016-bd33-1b302fae6c8e
• URL link

TAKE THIS HAMMER

• First line: This old hammer was made [?]
• Roud no: 4299    |   Moving image   |   Video; Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity -3x6a6QvvdM
• Savage, Joe / Brown, Walter   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/7d12c5c6-b51a-4c3f-b553-7ed30dc3d6b2
• URL link

HAMMER RING

• First line: Hammer ring. Going buy me a hammer
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Association for Cultural Equity 2599A1
• Unidentified men   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/c27b8796-37a7-4760-96cd-70101b1bab09
• URL link

HAMMER SONG

• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Library of Congress recording AFS 09090 B02
• Clark, Edgar / King, Lawrence   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/d194cc8d-9a90-4016-bd33-1b302fae6c8e

NINE POUND HAMMER

• First line: Nine pound hammer is a little too heavy
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• D.K. Wilgus sound collection (UCLA, Los Angeles)
• Hopkins, Doctor Howard   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/b0b40702-fda4-4e64-8189-9aeb9acab5c9
• URL link

MY OLD HAMMER

• First line: Take this hammer, carry it to the captain
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• D.K. Wilgus sound collection (UCLA, Los Angeles)
• Ledbetter, Huddie (Leadbelly)   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/f63c054c-e8d1-4402-bbb6-8ddac02d42f5
• URL link

SPIKE DRIVER BLUES

• First line: This is the hammer that killed John Henry
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• D.K. Wilgus sound collection (UCLA, Los Angeles)
• Frankle, Ken   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301
• URL link

TAKE THIS HAMMER

• First line: Take this hammer and carry it to the captain
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• D.K. Wilgus sound collection (UCLA, Los Angeles)
• Garfield, Warren   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301
• URL link

HAMMER THAT KILLED JOHN HENRY, THE

• First line: This is the hammer that killed John Henry
• Roud no: 4299    |   Manuscript   |   Text; Music
• James Madison Carpenter MSS Collection (American Folklife Center, Library of Congress / VWML, London) p.10513
• Brennan, Sally M.   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301

TAKE THIS HAMMER AND GIVE IT TO THE CAPTAIN

• First line: Well, take this hammer and give it to the captain
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio; Text
• Max Hunter Collection (Springfield-Greene County Library) 0829 (MFH 655)
• Gilbert, Ollie   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/170f7cd9-c0d9-416a-945f-83f83ff440c1
• URL link

NINE POUND HAMMER

• First line: Well I went up on the mountain
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Smithsonian-Folkways SFW CD 40202 ('Rising Sun Melodies')
• Reed, Ola Belle   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/21a6a602-f575-48de-a371-7310a97115c8

NINE POUND HAMMER

• First line: Nine pound hammer a little too heavy
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• American Folklife Center, Lomax Kentucky Recordings (website)
• Steele, Pearl / Steele, Craig / Steele, Lillie / Steele, Pete   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/38306bbc-8907-41a0-8209-982e7b438783
• URL link

TAKE THIS HAMMER

• Roud no: 4299    |   Thesis   |   Reference only
• Posen, Song and Singing Traditions at Children’s Summer Camps (MA thesis: Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1974) p. 117
• http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/5483d531-1ba9-4b0f-95e6-07ec591edd7a

YEW-PINE MOUNTAINS, THE

• First line: This old hammer rings like silver
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text
• Combs, Folk-Songs of the Southern United States p.166
• Townsend, Harley   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/4b3c7fd7-1596-4e6d-af6e-1a365006fe83

HAMMER THAT KILLED JOHN HENRY, THE

• First line: This is the hammer
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text; Music
• Talley, Negro Folk Rhymes (expanded edn., 1991) pp.216-217
• http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301

NINE POUND HAMMER

• First line: Nine pound hammer is a little too heavy
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text; Music
• Dunson & Raim, Anthology of American Folk Music (1973) pp.112-113
• Monroe Brothers   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301

NINE POUND HAMMER, THE

• First line: Somebody stole my nine pound hammer
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Vetco LP 103 (`Songs of the Railroad 1924-1934')
• Hopkins, Al & His Buckle Busters   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301

RAINBOW ROUND MY SHOULDER

• First line: Ev'rywhere I, where I look this mornin'
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text; Music
• Lomax, Folk Song USA (1947) pp.322-323
• http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301

SPIKE DRIVER BLUES

• First line: Take this hammer and carry it to my captain
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text; Music
• Dunson & Raim, Anthology of American Folk Music (1973) pp.100-101
• Hurt, Mississippi John   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301

SPIKE DRIVER'S BLUES

• First line: John Henry was a steel drivin' boy
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text; Music
• Watson, The Songs of Doc Watson (1971) pp.68-71
• Watson, Doc   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/10ca08ad-bab9-4ab3-8ad5-f10873e1c6de

TAKE MY HAMMER

• First line: Take my hammer, carry it to my captain
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Frag. Text
• White, American Negro Folk-Songs (1928) p.259
• http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/b2af9fa5-b9e7-4b7f-abab-7113e5ceb256

TAKE THIS HAMMER

• First line: Take this hammer (huh) carry it to the captain
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book
• Lomax, Folk Song USA (1947) pp.322-323
• http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301

TAKE THIS HAMMER

• First line: Take this hammer (wah)
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text; Music
• Asch & Lomax, Leadbelly Songbook (1962) p.45
• Ledbetter, Huddie (Leadbelly)   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301

THIS OLD HAMMER

• First line: This old hammer shine like silver
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text; Music
• Seeger, American Folk Songs for Children (1948) p.149
• http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301

THIS OLE HAMMER

• First line: This ole hammer - huh
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text
• Gordon, Folk-Songs of America (1938) p.16
• http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/55d76600-91c4-4fab-8204-95fb4af9afca

CAPTAIN I'M DRIVIN'

• First line: Captain I'm drivin'
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Frag. Text
• Brown, North Carolina Folklore 2 (1952) pp.623-627 (version g)
• http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/70f97c2c-8656-4e05-b23b-cf023a59a192

CAPTAIN I'M DRIVIN'

• First line: Captain I'm drivin' (huh)
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Frag. Text; Music
• Brown, North Carolina Folklore 4 (1957) pp.298-302 (version g)
• White, Dr.   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/2fd44d22-5a5a-4445-a56d-125e1fcd6ef9

TAKE THIS HAMMER

• First line: Take this hammer
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Frag. Text
• Brown, North Carolina Folklore 2 (1952) pp.623-627 (version d)
• Hodgin, ?   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/70f97c2c-8656-4e05-b23b-cf023a59a192

YEW-PINE MOUNTAINS, THE

• First line: This old hammer rings like silver
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text
• Combs, Folk-Songs du Midi des Etats-Unis (1925) pp.193-194
• Woofter, Mr.   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/06c5d52f-f4eb-4b37-bbea-46101282dd70

HAMMER SONG

• First line: Well, my hammer (hammer ring)
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio; Text
• Library of Congress: Archive of American Folk Culture 2599 A2
• Convicts   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/43ac3f2e-84c5-4936-849e-91d98b3ed52a
• URL link

HAMMER SONG, THE

• First line: Oh my hammer, hammer ring
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text
• Lomax, American Ballads & Folk Songs (1934) pp.61-62
• http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/992b2132-5b8e-4ea3-915b-204afdb12301

HAMMERIN' SONG

• First line: Boss is callin', huh
• Roud no: 4299    |   Book   |   Text; Music
• Curtis-Burlin, Negro Folk-Songs (Hampton Series) (Bk.4) pp.140-148
• http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/7766ce6a-68d8-4c98-822d-37f7746d523d

I GOT A BULLDOG

• First line: I've got a bulldog, he cost five hundred
• Roud no: 4299    |   Sound recording   |   Audio
• Historical HLP 8001 ('Early Country Music')
• Stoneman, Ernest V., & the Sweet Brothers   |   http://data.epexio.com/vaughanWilliams/places/0dc6645f-d842-4e2b-9dab-255a5a8bd187