How To Play Great Fingerpicking Guitar--Even If You're All Thumbs!

from Chapter 5

JOHN HENRY--Mance Lipscomb's [from Texas] Style

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          When John  Hen-  ry         was  a    little baby

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       sittin'   on   his    daddy's    knee                he
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picked  up a  hammer and a little
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                                         he said

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be the death of me, Lord     Lord, he said  hammer's gonna

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be the death of me!
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