Anybody Need a Big Man

[JASSAWA]
Anybody body body body body body body body body body body
Seen that big man?
Goliath-strong but David-pure?
Samson-big, Solomon-wise man here?
Anybody body body body body body body body body
Seen a big man, so big
He got two first names
His first first name John and second first name Henry
John and Henry
John Henry

[Thunder.]

[JOHN HENRY, spoken]
Hush your rattlin', Lord! They callin' for me, not you!
(sung)
Anybody need a big man?
Anybody need a big man?
Bend a rainbow
Break the wheel
Or bite the moon
Or maybe drives a little steel

Big man, big man for hire!
Anybody need a big man here?
(spoken)
Anybody tell me if there might be some work around here for a newly free man?

[JASSAWA, spoken]
Huh. We been emancipated down here—
Where you been?

[JOHN HENRY, spoken]
Personal right-hand man to the Lord himself. Been working for Him for ten thousand years without no pay. 'Bout time I started earning a living—so I packed my pack, and picked up my feet, leaped straight over the Pearly Gate, and grabbed me a seat in the front first car of an earthbound shooting star. Changed to a rainbow south of the moon and slid right down 'til I felt my two feet touch the land where a man is free. So here I am you-o', a hammer in my hand! Uh, what kind of a job you got for me?

[JASSAWA, spoken]
You as big a worker as you is a talker?

[JOHN HENRY, spoken]
I been workin' since the earth was made!
It was early in the morning of that very first Sunday
Seven days after the Lord made Monday
And I was dunkin' my toes in the Galilee
Which at that time was a brand-new sea
And when I sees this chariot
Swingin' low out of heaven
With the Lord aboard
So I dups my hat and says, "Mornin', Lord!"
Well, the Lord yell, "Whoa!"
And he lean out and he say
"How you like it, boy?
It took me six whole days!"
And I say, "Uh, Mr. Lord, sir
You want my appraisal—or, or you want my praise?"