JOHN HENRY AND THE RAILROAD | Omeleto

[Music] this was throw two things on your mom get check God now you've probably got no idea what's going on here that's my fault bad storytelling on my part why don't we start at the beginning I'm gonna tell you a tale a tall tale to be sure so sit back enjoy the story because every bit of what I'm gonna tell you is that honest-to-goodness truth there are some tall tales but this is the tallest of all this is the tale of old John Henry yes that John Henry to one from the railroad story well legend goes that John Henry was a freed slave at about that time when they were doing that sort of thing John took his only son out with him looking for work after he was free he was out to make a new life for himself he heard something about railroad work needed to be done in these in mountains so that's where he went now John was said to be seven and a half feet tall with arms that could knock a tree down flat truth is John Henry didn't break much over five and a half feet but there are no small men and tall tales because old John Henry was still bigger than any other man alive [Music] you in charge here I am until someone tells me otherwise one of these idiots drops a beam on my head I heard the railroad companies giving land as payment and the railroad track reaches blue cut Junction forty acres of everyman what it says except you gotta get there by January or you get nothing yeah well that's what they're telling us anyway but though I think we've got things covered here the boys and I've got it under control besides doesn't it all you've ever done any rail work before no I have it but me and my boy here we don't blacksmithing back but no look I'm sorry but I think we doing just fine thank you what we gonna do now daddy what I said before Oh what on the rare book I bet your spot on your gang here as well as that fancy hat you got there I can drive three spikes three swings right here right now okay now leave and not come back that impossible it takes four swing for one spike it take Buford seven swing you know child's never ride about anything but I think he's got this one down it can't be done then it's an easy bet dear I'll take that bet what these man didn't know was that John was the greatest hammer man in all sir we lack in size we made up [Music] John made that hammer himself made it out of the chains that held him when he was once a slave from the day he was free old John vowed he never let another man to beat him again little what I fear grits Wendland go [Music] [Music] all right when can you start I think I just did [Music] so John Henry and his boy along with that scraggly bunch of scoundrels worked sunrise to sunset every day they picked up the pace and it looked like they was gonna make it to boot cut junction with time to spare [Music] they called for supper a while ago why don't we go eat so didn't quite there just yet but we can do it tomorrow I'll never do tomorrow what he's doing today daddy I'm tired son used to be I had to work from sunrise to say cuz I had to for someone else and I'm working for something that's mine I'm working for me and I'm working for you now our hard we work with no one's looking that's what we really are in sad everybody's got the next thing to get to next Gold kids they strive to do next nail in the rails what matters is you don't quit even when you're tired you were hungry you wouldn't look like an even gonna make it you don't quit which - it I love that's the way we live our lives [Music] last one it's all yours hey wait whoa whoa you watch what you swing it a day [Music] now the boys were getting mighty close to the end a few more weeks and all that land was their land to call their very own Oh John ain't no nothin his whole life so for him it was something real special what you gonna do with your land me I want to start looking for all right away I find it all over the place out here gonna get rich never have to work yeah yeah they gonna start a farm always worked on one anyway so they get me nice knowing I started owning me sounds like a lot of work besides I'd like to leave for my boy I'm gone something we can grow crops please mmm that's what I do sounds like a lot of work and this right we're gonna get there just in time everything is going perfectly but of course this would be a terrible story if everything did go just perfectly cuz the onh railroad was working on something brand-new something absolutely died Obama [Music] [Music] diabolical what's going on here this local reprobate from the company is trying to tell us that we're off the job that we're fired that we can would babysit because this metal monstrosity can finish the job without us we've been replaced John but one giant pink and what about the land the contract we almost done finished already Tori breach of contract I'm calling it I learned it on thick now you know what you're doing the ain't fair I'm not gonna let you take this away from us weak we work too hard come too far we have options John there's always options [Music] I challenge you to a race man versus machine first one horse camp wins name of three miles from here you win we all go home no fuss but if I win you take this love sided piece of junk and you get packing I will take it apart boat by boat we got us a deal Jonah's too fresh I'll be faster it's wrong I'll be strong Johnny it's made of steel and metal it's not ever gonna quit now that well I so now it was a race of biblical proportion the giant Goliath machine versus the man that vowed to never let any man beat him again I think it's time for a little racing music that's my cue [Music] like David thought against the giant Philistine our eyes with the pal the good Lord gives to me and I will smite the ones who fire the cumin from going home [Music] you can't stop this train [Music] my chains you can't stop this train it's wedding love Britt sweating love my de calais from the fires of suffering and I left him with the faith of a mustard seed I cry Lord said tell the mountain to move Mountain so much [Music] we can't stop Grand Slam subjects [Music] it's wedding love bread sweating love [Music] well I'll be a baboon's blue backside look at the size of that one we're gonna have to go around it go right through the mouth never make it around in time there's no way to break through that big old mountain we're done for us and what I always tell you what I would be about life I know but look at that mountain what do we do even when we tie and all right don't quit what do we do do you want it like we ain't gonna make it we don't quit and what do we do when it looks like we're going to smash to a big old mountain we get the big hammers we'll get the big hat much fake hummus big hammer they're bigger hammer is always a bigger hammer here our deal for soon don't you worry about [Applause] [Music] just say [Music] my way stop this train [Music] change kids [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] I've never seen anything like that in my entire life heaven heaven unbelievable are you are you alright of course he's alright he does knock down a mountain legend says John Henry died that day after treating that old machine turns out that just ain't true John lived a long time after working hard on that farm he earned for his boy in fact he outlived that dirty machine [Music] there's two kinds of stories in this world kind of everyone remembers and the kind that everyone's forgot to remember this is the true tall tale of John Henry how do I know cuz I was there that day John Henry he's my daddy and he passed those big ol hammers down to me before he died but not before changing him one last time he took the cold steel of the change then enslaved him turn him into the hot hammers that knocked down a mountain then he made him into this Higa tar and with it I can sing about his story share what my daddy taught me about Brittany sweat and most importantly love [Music] [Music] [Music] like David fought against the giant Philistine our eyes with the bow the good Lord gives to me with smite the ones who fire the kid Minh from going home from going [Music] my case [Music] my change you can't stop this train it's wedding love Britt sweating low my the catalyst from the fires of suffering and I left them high with the faith of a mustard seed I cry the good Lord said tell the mountains Mountain the moon so my girl [Music] you can't stop this train [Music] change of kids [Music] it's wedding love bread sweating love it'll all be soon don't you worry hurry back [Applause] [Music] just say just see my way you can't stop this dream [Music] kid stuff [Music] I'm running [Music] you

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Length: 21min 33sec (1293 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 05 2018