Spike Driver Blues
First release by Mississippi John Hurt (1929)
- Written by
- Mississippi John Hurt
- Language
- English
- ISWC
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T-700.066.282-0 BMI, ISWC, JASRAC
- Comments
- Same story line as Take This Hammer but a different song all together. Could be traditional. The worker in this song is throwing his hammer down and leaving the exhausting and dangerous work of driving steel spikes with a hammer (often between nine and twelve pounds). Here, John Henry is invoked - not as a hero who raced the steam drill and won - but as a workingman's martyr.
- Published by
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WYNWOOD MUSIC COMPANY INC
BMI
MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT MUSIC INC BMI
- Licensing
- Request a synchronization license