作词 : Gibson/Camp 作曲 : Gibson/Camp Now a famous American folktale When John Henry was a little baby he was sittin’ on his mammy’s knee well He picked up a slide rule and a book on mathematics sayin’, “Thinkin’s gonna be the job for me” sayin’, “Thinkin’s gonna be the job for me” When John Henry was just a little baby He decided when grew he was gonna be a thinkin’ man With a filter So he decided to go to college and study all about thinkin’ He did and he learned all about algebry and thinkin’ Geometry and thinkin’ Trigonometry and thinkin’ Calculus and thinkin’ He always had trouble with English, though Grammer’s gonna be the death of me, Lord Lord Grammer’s gonna be the death of me He didn’t do too well in Greek either Homer’s gonna be the death of me, Lord Lord Homer’s gonna be the death of me Well John Henry finished college and became a very competent thinker Which is unusual And he went out into the business world where they do a lot of heavy thinkin’ And got a job as a thinkin’ man Well this first job was with the John Burch Society, thinkin’ up communists . He had a little trouble with his next job though that was with the Ford Motor company, ha ha He thought up the etso Then John Henry got a job with the CIA Thinkin up excuses As you all know, the government is very economy minded Concerned with cuttin’ down on costs So one day, the CIA brought in an efficiency expert. Tryin to cut down on man power. He looked around and hollered out “Automation!” “Automation!” “Automation!” Now the experts said to John henry I’m gonna’ to bring me a computer ‘round I’m gonna’ to bring me a computer and electronic brain Cybernetics’ gonna’ put the answer down Computers help to keep the pay roll down Now the man who invented the computer, was from a place called MIT Well he punched out cards and tapes by the yards, on the nearer, my God to thee on the nearer, my God to thee Now John Henry said to the inventor, “oh your tubes don’t mean a damn All your wires and your circuits, they are just a modern quirk It’s never ever gonna’ beat a thinkin’ man They are never gonna’ beat the thinkin’ man So it was proposed that John Henry and the computer have a race The inventor punched out a card for the computer John Henry stepped into the isolation booth Ralph Edwards read him a question And the race was on John Henry started a thinkin’ til’ his head glowed cherry red there was smoke from his ears and his eyes poured tears and he thunk til’ his brain dropped dead think, thank, thunk til’ his brain dropped dead. They took John Henry to the bughouse But still his legend grows. Now please don’t get us wrong, there’s a moral to this song, don’t ever doubt the thinkin’ power of men But, on the other hand, don’t ever sell your stock in IBM
[00:00.000] 作词 : Gibson/Camp [00:00.000] 作曲 : Gibson/Camp [00:00.00]Now a famous American folktale [00:09.27]When John Henry was a little baby [00:12.74]he was sittin’ on his mammy’s knee [00:16.53]well He picked up a slide rule and a book on mathematics [00:19.98]sayin’, “Thinkin’s gonna be the job for me” [00:23.76]sayin’, “Thinkin’s gonna be the job for me” [00:33.50]When John Henry was just a little baby [00:35.77]He decided when grew he was gonna be a thinkin’ man [00:38.79]With a filter [00:41.81]So he decided to go to college [00:43.25]and study all about thinkin’ [00:46.10]He did and he learned all about [00:47.93]algebry and thinkin’ [00:51.50]Geometry and thinkin’ [00:54.37]Trigonometry and thinkin’ [00:58.19]Calculus and thinkin’ [01:01.60]He always had trouble with English, though [01:04.44]Grammer’s gonna be the death of me, Lord Lord [01:08.90]Grammer’s gonna be the death of me [01:12.48]He didn’t do too well in Greek either [01:14.50]Homer’s gonna be the death of me, Lord Lord [01:17.45]Homer’s gonna be the death of me [01:21.16]Well John Henry finished college [01:23.84]and became a very competent thinker [01:25.31]Which is unusual [01:26.73]And he went out into the business world where they do a lot of heavy thinkin’ [01:30.67]And got a job as a thinkin’ man [01:31.49]Well this first job was with the John Burch Society, [01:36.59]thinkin’ up communists . [01:47.70]He had a little trouble with his next job though [01:50.24]that was with the Ford Motor company, ha ha [01:53.14]He thought up the etso [01:58.54]Then John Henry got a job with the CIA [02:01.36]Thinkin up excuses [02:06.16]As you all know, the government is very economy minded [02:11.36]Concerned with cuttin’ down on costs [02:14.60]So one day, the CIA brought in an efficiency expert. [02:17.19]Tryin to cut down on man power. [02:20.60]He looked around and hollered out [02:22.39]“Automation!” [02:23.80]“Automation!” [02:24.80]“Automation!” [02:26.21]Now the experts said to John henry [02:29.53]I’m gonna’ to bring me a computer ‘round [02:33.24]I’m gonna’ to bring me a computer and electronic brain [02:36.91]Cybernetics’ gonna’ put the answer down [02:40.87]Computers help to keep the pay roll down [02:44.33]Now the man who invented the computer, [02:47.82]was from a place called MIT [02:51.45]Well he punched out cards [02:53.32]and tapes by the yards, [02:55.18]on the nearer, my God to thee [02:58.88]on the nearer, my God to thee [03:06.80]Now John Henry said to the inventor, [03:10.28]“oh your tubes don’t mean a damn [03:14.00]All your wires and your circuits, [03:15.89]they are just a modern quirk [03:17.59]It’s never ever gonna’ beat a thinkin’ man [03:21.38]They are never gonna’ beat the thinkin’ man [03:25.46]So it was proposed that John Henry and the computer have a race [03:29.40]The inventor punched out a card for the computer [03:31.70]John Henry stepped into the isolation booth [03:35.36]Ralph Edwards read him a question [03:38.50]And the race was on [03:40.18]John Henry started a thinkin’ [03:43.35]til’ his head glowed cherry red [03:46.66]there was smoke from his ears and his eyes poured tears [03:50.50]and he thunk til’ his brain dropped dead [03:51.98]think, thank, thunk [03:53.92]til’ his brain dropped dead. [04:01.89]They took John Henry to the bughouse [04:09.80]But still his legend grows. [04:17.83]Now please don’t get us wrong, [04:23.23]there’s a moral to this song, [04:29.42]don’t ever doubt the thinkin’ power of men [04:34.92]But, on the other hand, [04:37.71]don’t ever sell your stock in IBM
