{"id":7205,"date":"2010-01-01T10:06:58","date_gmt":"2010-01-01T14:06:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7205"},"modified":"2010-01-14T10:34:17","modified_gmt":"2010-01-14T14:34:17","slug":"take-this-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7205","title":{"rendered":"Take This Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/images\/Take_This_Hammer.png\"\/>\n<\/p>\n<div class=\"audio\">\n<div class=\"alignright caption\"> <a href=\"?page_id=6069\">How do I download this Mp3?<\/a>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"audio_link\"> Mp3: <a href=\"http:\/\/ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden\/php\/music\/Take_This_Hammer.mp3\">Take This Hammer  (Left Click To Play)<\/a> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"about\">\nI recorded this on the Crystal Serenity ocean liner on the way to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Lisbon\">Lisbon Portugal<\/a> last June. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kompoz.com\/compose-collaborate\/home.contest.music\">Kompoz.com<\/a> contacted me asking for a song to use in their contest. I provided 7 tracks for contestants to download. This was the winner, a gospel version with wonderful piano and vocal backing!<br \/>\n<em><br \/>\nFrom Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia<\/em><br \/>\n&#8220;Take This Hammer&#8221; (Roud 4299) is a prison work song. It was collected by John and Alan Lomax. The song &#8220;Nine Pound Hammer&#8221; has a few phrases in common with this song, and the same Roud number. &#8220;Swannanoa Tunnel&#8221; is similar, and this group of songs are referred to as &#8216;hammer songs&#8217; or &#8216;roll songs&#8217;. According to the Columbia State University, the earliest collected version was made by Newman Ivey White in 1915.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics-header\">Lyrics:<\/div>\n<div class=\"lyrics\">\n<p>[G] Take this hammer, carry it to the [D] captain<br \/>\nTake this hammer, carry it to the [G] captain<br \/>\nTake this hammer, carry it to the [C] captain<br \/>\nTell him I&#8217;m [G] gone, great [D] God tell him I&#8217;m [G] gone<\/p>\n<p>If he ask you was I laughing?<br \/>\nIf he ask you was I laughing?<br \/>\nIf he ask you was I laughing?<br \/>\nTell him I&#8217;m crying, great God tell him I&#8217;m crying<\/p>\n<p>If he ask you was I walking<br \/>\nIf he ask you was I walking<br \/>\nIIf he ask you was I walking<br \/>\nTell him I&#8217;m running, great God tell him I&#8217;m running <\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t want no more your cornbread and molasses<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t want no more your cornbread and molasses<br \/>\nDon&#8217;t want no more your cornbread and molasses<br \/>\nHurts my pride, great God It hurts my pride.<\/p>\n<p>Take this hammer, carry it to the captain<br \/>\nTake this hammer, carry it to the captain<br \/>\nTake this hammer, carry it to the captain<br \/>\nTell him I&#8217;m gone, great God tell him I&#8217;m gone\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script src=\"http:\/\/digg.com\/tools\/diggthis.js\" type=\"text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do I download this Mp3? Mp3: Take This Hammer (Left Click To Play) I recorded this on the Crystal Serenity ocean liner on the way to Lisbon Portugal last June. Kompoz.com contacted me asking for a song to use in their contest. I provided 7 tracks for contestants to download. This was the winner, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/?p=7205\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Take This Hammer&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mountainsouthernus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7205"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8740,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7205\/revisions\/8740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ibiblio.org\/jimmy\/folkden-wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}