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John Henry

Woody Guthrie

One of a Kind

1964

Hammer be the death of me"

Some say he's born in Texas
Some say he's born up in Maine
I just say he was a Louisiana man
Leader of a steel-driving chain

I ever told this story
But this match been in the making
Even way before us when I was 16 I won a
Battle rap tournament in St louis
The winner got

hoo hoo
Whoo hoo hoo
A story came from Wyoming
Where winter had set in
A plot was schemed by four
Bad and desperate men
While one challenged John in

everybody leavin'
You the last one to follow
Fresh off the porch
You can tell you're a beginner
I ain't never been a square
I was born to be a winner

Pocket

John Henry

Dave Van Ronk

Gambler's Blues

1965

Hammer be the death of me!"

Some say he's born in Texas
Some say he's born up in Maine
I just say he was a Louisiana man
Leader of a steel-driving

hey everybody here's a winner
hey everybody here's a winner
if you open your eyes
and open your heart 
you will see

he was born on the wrong side

The Séance at Harpers Ferry

MC Lars

Radio Pet Fencing

2004

Well they hung John Brown in 1859
After his revolt did not go fine. 
Trying to free the slaves was a noble cause,
Like putting one's faith in

no
Why you lion den
Hold the water pass the rock I got the flame it's goin in
Call me aang when I'm in the game
Don't you know i was born to wind
I

the union livin'
The boss man be damned
When the winner was announced
John Henry did fall
Saw he was dead
And a tear shed by all
The boss man had a chuckle

them face
In my mind they erased
Every time first place
But some niggas tryna change me up
Cuz I was
Cuz I was Born a bread winner
I was Born a fucking

I was born with a shotgun in my hand
I was raised up by a redneck old man
Country living small town raised
I was born I was born in the usa
I was

to see.
I'll pray and try to fight the fright that this was your only night.
That fateful night under the silver moonlit sky
You were born and you were gone

cowboy with the best
The hardest working man I've ever known, his name was John Wayne Lopez

Said now don't you ever do him wrong, listen close to what he

reunions, I want to proudly pronounce my bloodline traces back to John J. Thomas, who was born on November 5, 1876, and Lula F. Edwards Thomas, who was born

Billy the Mountain

Frank Zappa

The Supplement Tape

1990

DO DO!
Do-do-do-do-do,
Doot-doot-do DO!
Etc.

(I'm so HIP!)

BEEF PIES!

He was born next to the BEEF PIES,
Underneath JONI MITCHELL'S

was willing
Ya He wiped all my sins I was spilling
Ya Demon said wassup nah I'm chilling
Ya Beefing with my flesh gotta kill it
Ya Demons in my house

opals bust down on the wrist
I'm still an L-O-S-T-S-O-U-L
Can't change fate
I was born to raise hell
Got them cursed bullet shells on my hand and on my

since John Wayne was no longer available, they settled for Ronald Reagan ? and it has placed us in a situation that we can only look at ? like a ?B?

time daddy was a quitter
Counted out by the world before even entered
Auntie Shelia told me I was born a little different
Little outcast skinny like

from two souls that are totally different than mine. Pondered but didn't squander the mind got stronger with time sponsored by the divine Son  was born

Was born in it
Raise from the slimes
No love lost
Grinding since I was nine
Was born to this
Came from the slums
Was born to this
All I know is grind

Red Fox

Big Country

The Seer

1986

noon
The dirge will sound on the morrow's noon
I was not born into this time
To cleave the soil or work the mine
I came to claim my enemy
And be

huh, look
Run up, tell 'em, run up, boy, I wish they would, huh
Run up, tell 'em, run up, boy, I wish they would, huh
I was born a winner, I would

chicken wing, hot dog and bologna (Great John on the beat by the way)
I'm doing shit you imagine, ayy (chicken and macaroni, chillin' with my homies)
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