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Take This Hammer

Source Recording Artist: Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys

Album: Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall! (1963)

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Song Details

Title: Take This Hammer

Song History

Songwriter(s):

Traditional

First Release: Lead Belly (1942)

Source Recording Details

Band/Artist:

Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys

Album:

Flatt and Scruggs at Carnegie Hall! (1963)

Key: F

Time Signature: Boom-Chuck

Tempo (BPM): 94

Track Length: 2:18

Musicians:

Lead Singer:

Lester Flatt

Other Singer:

Jake Tullock

Other Singer:

Earl Scruggs

Other Singer:

Josh Graves

Guitar:

Lester Flatt

Banjo:

Earl Scruggs

Fiddle:

Paul Warren

Bass:

Josh Graves

Guitar:

Billy Powers

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Take This Hammer

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Now take this hammer carry it to the captain
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Take this hammer carry it to the captain
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Take this hammer carry it to the captain
1 5 1
Tell him I’m gone (tell him I’m gone) just tell him I’m gone
 

If he asks you was I running
If he asks you was I running
If he asks you was I running
Just tell him I was flying (just tell him I was flying) Just tell him I was flying

I don’t want your cold iron shackles
I don’t want your cold iron shackles
I don’t want your cold iron shackles
It hurts my (it hurts my leg) it hurts my leg

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