Nine Pound Hammer Chords
by Jimmy Dean
Nine Pound Hammer by Jimmy Dean is a moderately challenging guitar song played in the key of C. It uses the chords C, F and G7. Use the transpose and diagram tools on this page to change the key, see each shape, or simplify the chords.
C F C
Little to heavy for my size
G7 C
Honey for my size
F
Well roll on buddy with a load of coal
C G7 C
Well how you roll roll roll when the wheels won't go
F
Nine pound hammer done killed John Henry
C G7 C
It ain't gonna kill me no sir-ee it ain't gonna kill me
F
Roll on buddy pull a load of coal
C G7 C
How can you roll roll roll when the wheels won't go
Well I'm going on that mountain
F
I gonna see my baby
C
And I ain't coming back
G7 C
No sir-ee I ain't never coming back
And when I'm long gone
F
You can make my tombstone
C
Out of number nine coal boy boy
G7 C
A-number nine coal
F
Well roll on buddy with a load of coal
C G7 C
Well how you roll roll roll when the wheels won't go