Parallel Anthology Track 18 - Revision history

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   ''[http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW02319.pdf Liner notes] treat this song as traditional.''
   '''John Henry''' ''by Ramblin' Jack Elliott''    recorded in 1955-57 (according to album title): [http://open.spotify.com/track/7sKvsOKqpsQtYZjMEWtqZv Spotify]

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	== Alternative Versions ==		== Alternative Versions ==

		+	'''John Henry''' ''by Pete Seeger'' album released in 1957 (according to [http://www.folkways.si.edu/pete-seeger/american-ballads/american-folk/music/album/smithsonian www.folkways.si.edu]): [http://open.spotify.com/track/3AEqOlz6JoBawFrHTMRjCu Spotify]
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		+	''[http://media.smithsonianfolkways.org/liner_notes/folkways/FW02319.pdf Liner notes] treat this song as traditional.''
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	'''John Henry''' ''by Ramblin' Jack Elliott'' recorded in 1955-57 (according to album title): [http://open.spotify.com/track/7sKvsOKqpsQtYZjMEWtqZv Spotify]		'''John Henry''' ''by Ramblin' Jack Elliott'' recorded in 1955-57 (according to album title): [http://open.spotify.com/track/7sKvsOKqpsQtYZjMEWtqZv Spotify]

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 == Alternative Versions ==
-  '''John Henry''' ''by John Fahey''    recorded in 1959 (according to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Boy_Blues wikipedia]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4j0j_g_nIs& YouTube]
+  '''John Henry''' ''by Ramblin' Jack Elliott''    recorded in 1955-57 (according to album title): [http://open.spotify.com/track/7sKvsOKqpsQtYZjMEWtqZv Spotify]
-  '''John Henry''' ''by Ramblin' Jack Elliott''    recorded in 1955-57 (according to album title): [http://open.spotify.com/track/7sKvsOKqpsQtYZjMEWtqZv Spotify]
+  '''John Henry''' ''by John Fahey''    recorded in 1959 (according to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Boy_Blues wikipedia]): [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4j0j_g_nIs& YouTube]
   '''John Henry''' ''by Wise Jones''    recorded in 1958: [http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=6 Max Hunter Collection]

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   '''John Henry''' ''by Ramblin' Jack Elliott''    recorded in 1955-57 (according to album title): [http://open.spotify.com/track/7sKvsOKqpsQtYZjMEWtqZv Spotify]
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   '''John Henry''' ''by Wise Jones''    recorded in 1958: [http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=6 Max Hunter Collection]

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 == Alternative Versions ==
   '''John Henry''' ''by Wise Jones''    recorded in 1958: [http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=6 Max Hunter Collection]

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	'''John Henry''' ''by Wise Jones'' recorded in 1958: [http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=6 Max Hunter Collection]		'''John Henry''' ''by Wise Jones'' recorded in 1958: [http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=6 Max Hunter Collection]
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	'''John Henry''' ''by John Fahey'' recorded in 1959 (according to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Boy_Blues wikipedia]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4j0j_g_nIs& YouTube]		'''John Henry''' ''by John Fahey'' recorded in 1959 (according to [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poor_Boy_Blues wikipedia]: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4j0j_g_nIs& YouTube]

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		+	== Alternative Versions ==
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		+	'''John Henry''' ''by Wise Jones'' recorded in 1958: [http://maxhunter.missouristate.edu/songinformation.aspx?ID=6 Max Hunter Collection]

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	''All versions of his story depict him as a railroad worker who wields a heavy (usually nine pound) hammer. John Henry is usually a spike driver, which is a man who drives steel spikes into sheer rock in order to dig a tunnel. This was exhausting and dangerous work. Even more dangerous was the profession of the "shaker," whose job it was to hold the steel spike steady while the spike driver drove it in, and then shake it around to loosen the rock. One badly aimed swing could cost the shaker his life. Little wonder, then, that the railroads sought to replace human workers with steam driven machines that could do the work faster and with much less risk. Nevertheless, this advance would cost a lot of men their jobs, and it was for this reason that John Henry sought to prove that human labor could compete with the steam drill.''		''All versions of his story depict him as a railroad worker who wields a heavy (usually nine pound) hammer. John Henry is usually a spike driver, which is a man who drives steel spikes into sheer rock in order to dig a tunnel. This was exhausting and dangerous work. Even more dangerous was the profession of the "shaker," whose job it was to hold the steel spike steady while the spike driver drove it in, and then shake it around to loosen the rock. One badly aimed swing could cost the shaker his life. Little wonder, then, that the railroads sought to replace human workers with steam driven machines that could do the work faster and with much less risk. Nevertheless, this advance would cost a lot of men their jobs, and it was for this reason that John Henry sought to prove that human labor could compete with the steam drill.''
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		+	As it seems impossible to determine whether the melody and a large part of the lyrics of the Williamson bros. version are original or derive from earlier versions of "John Henry", the copyright status of this composition is not known.


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 According to the [http://theanthologyofamericanfolkmusic.blogspot.co.uk/2009/12/gonna-die-with-my-hammer-in-my-hand.html Where Dead Voice Gather] blog:
-''The legend of John Henry is an integral part of American folklore and it is reportedly based on fact. There was a John Henry employed by the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Railway during the 1870s and work was being done at the Big Bend Tunnel near Talcott, West Virginia. There are several scholars who dispute exactly where and under what circumstances the contest with the steam drill actually took place. One theory is that John Henry was a convict leased to the C&O Railway by the State of Virginia. Others maintain that John Henry and the steam drill actually had their race in Alabama. Most sources agree, however, that John Henry was a black man.
+''The legend of John Henry is an integral part of American folklore and it is reportedly based on fact. There was a John Henry employed by the Chesapeake and Ohio (C&O) Railway during the 1870s and work was being done at the Big Bend Tunnel near Talcott, West Virginia. There are several scholars who dispute exactly where and under what circumstances the contest with the steam drill actually took place. One theory is that John Henry was a convict leased to the C&O Railway by the State of Virginia. Others maintain that John Henry and the steam drill actually had their race in Alabama. Most sources agree, however, that John Henry was a black man.''
-All versions of his story depict him as a railroad worker who wields a heavy (usually nine pound) hammer. John Henry is usually a spike driver, which is a man who drives steel spikes into sheer rock in order to dig a tunnel. This was exhausting and dangerous work. Even more dangerous was the profession of the "shaker," whose job it was to hold the steel spike steady while the spike driver drove it in, and then shake it around to loosen the rock. One badly aimed swing could cost the shaker his life. Little wonder, then, that the railroads sought to replace human workers with steam driven machines that could do the work faster and with much less risk. Nevertheless, this advance would cost a lot of men their jobs, and it was for this reason that John Henry sought to prove that human labor could compete with the steam drill.''
+''All versions of his story depict him as a railroad worker who wields a heavy (usually nine pound) hammer. John Henry is usually a spike driver, which is a man who drives steel spikes into sheer rock in order to dig a tunnel. This was exhausting and dangerous work. Even more dangerous was the profession of the "shaker," whose job it was to hold the steel spike steady while the spike driver drove it in, and then shake it around to loosen the rock. One badly aimed swing could cost the shaker his life. Little wonder, then, that the railroads sought to replace human workers with steam driven machines that could do the work faster and with much less risk. Nevertheless, this advance would cost a lot of men their jobs, and it was for this reason that John Henry sought to prove that human labor could compete with the steam drill.''
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