Nine Pound Hammer - Frank Fairfield

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Nine Pound Hammer Lyrics

Nine pound hammer is just a little too heavy
For my size, baby for my size

Take this hammer show it to my captain
Tell him I'm gone, baby tell him I'm

If he asks you where I went to
Tell him you don't know, baby you don't know

Ain't no hammer in this mountain
Out rings mine, baby out rings mine

Take this hammer and throw it in the river
It rings right on, baby it rings right on


This is the hammer that killed John Henry
But it won't kill me, baby it won't kill me

This old hammer killed my buddy
It laid him low, it laid him low

Roll on buddy don't roll so slow
How can I roll when the wheels won't go


Roll on buddy for to make your time
I broke down and I can't make mine

This nine pound hammer just a little too heavy
For my size, baby for my size

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You can call him a traditionalist. But we wont. You can call him nostalgic. But we wont.

He is Frank Fairfield. A musician. A Banjo picker. A fiddle hummer. A song singer. We’ve heard him described as someone who was discovered at a farmers market out in California, as if he were some long lost treasure or mythical land. As we see it, it isn’t some deep yearning for a time long forgotten that drives Frank Fairfield, he isn’t trying to be something that no longer exists, because in fact, he DOES exist. The music he plays, creates, performs is the music that carried all of us, from all over the world, to the place (wherever that place may be) we are now. He plays the American landscape, the one he himself sees and experiences. He goes about it with the only tools necessary, as any good craftsman would. Its not some ship filled with Spanish doubloons, or some ancient Amazon city of Gold, its Frank Fairfield. A musician. A Banjo picker. A man not competing with time, only living in his own. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.

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