Take This Hammer

Source Recording: Lester Flatt, Earl Scruggs and the Foggy Mountain Boys (1963)

Song Details

Title: Take This Hammer

Songwriter(s):

Traditional

First Release: Lead Belly (1942)

ISRC: USSM10002450

Source Recording Details

Key: F

Time Signature: Boom-Chuck

Tempo (BPM): 94

Track Length: 2:18

Musicians:

Lead Singer:

Other Singer:

Other Singer:

Other Singer:

Guitar:

Banjo:

Fiddle:

Bass:

Guitar:

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Take This Hammer

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Now take this hammer carry it to the captain
1
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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