Anybody Need a Big Man (Reprise)

[BULL MAREE, spoken]
I'll tell you what it is, boy! It's a genuine brass-lined, copper-riveted, double-hammer Baldwin steamdrill. Drop a drill through rock like so much butter. This here steam-hammer drive more'n forty men. This machine Goliath—not John Henry!

[Blows whistle.]

Alright! Get off our mountain, big boy. C and O Railroad got no use for a big man now!

[JOHN HENRY, with false bravado]
Anybody need a big man?
Huh! Anybody need a big man?
Bend your rainbow
Or break the wheel
Or bite the moon
Or maybe drive a little steel?

Big man... big man for hire
Anybody need a big man here?

(spoken)
Hey gandymen! Hand me a hammer
And let Goliath show you how to sink them spikes in finе!
(sung)
A double-man drive in double-timе!

[GANDYMEN]
Railroad need no Goliath kind
Steam-setter settin' all the spikes on this line (Ha ha)
Big men long time gone from here (Ha ha)
Nobody need Goliath here!
(spoken)
Ha ha ha ha ha ha, yes sir

[JOHN HENRY, discouraged]
Anybody need a big man?
Anybody need a big man?
Roust that cotton
Heave your lead
Tuck you in your riverbed?

Anybody use a big man?
I repeat:
Big man for hire here!

(spoken)
Hey, roustin' man!
Let ol' Samson show you how he can roust that bale with
(sung)
Just one hand!

[ROUSTERS]
Cotton boat need no Samson man (Ha ha, yeah)
Steam winch roust more than twenty Samsons can! (Ha ha, yeah)
Big men long time gone from here (Ha ha, yeah)
Nobody body needin' Samson here!
Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha

[JOHN HENRY]
Bend the rainbow
Wake the sun
Blow the stars out when the dark is done
Big man, I said big man for hire!

[Totally broken.]

Tote your water
Or chop your wood
And if you weary, heh heh, I'll sport your woman good!
Big man for hire!

I'll pick your chicken
Or scrub your floor
Cheaply, I'll do 'most any chore
Big man! I said big man for hire...

Anybody need a big man here?

[WHORE, spoken]
Hey, you in the sportin' trade, honey?
Can you—
Do the hound dog?
Mumble the peg?
Plug the melon?
Lick the pumpkin?
Grind the coffee?
Shake the skillet?
Ride the mule?
Beat the egg?