Covers:

1934:

Lead Belly [als Take This Hammer; Lomax-opname in Angola Prison Farm]

1936:

Jimmie Strothers [idem; Lomax-opname in Virginia]

1937:

Blind Teddy Darby

1937:

South Carolina Ditch Diggers [als Ten Pound Hammer]

1940:

Lead Belly & The Golden Gate Quartet

1949:

Bascom Lamar Lunsford [in Swannanoa Tunnel]

1954:

Jesse Fuller [als Railroad Blues]

1954:

Emmett Brand [gewezen slaaf, ouder dan Lead Belly; opgenomen toen hij al een oude man was]

1955:

Ken Colyer [met Alexis Korner als Take This Hammer]

1957:

Odetta [als Take This Hammer]

1957:

Sonny Terry & Brownie McGhee [idem]

1957:

Big Bill Broonzy [als Railroad Blues]

1959:

Lonnie Donegan [idem]

1961:

Dave Van Ronk

1963:

Jean Ritchie

1966:

Spencer Davis Group [als This Hammer (Hammer Song) op tweede lp]

1971:

Doc Watson

1984:

Philadelphia Jerry Ricks

1988:

Jerry Garcia

1989:

Brendan Croker [als Railroad Worksong]

1990:

Notting Hillbillies [idem; zang: Brendan Croker]

1992:

Ray Stubbs [als Take This Hammer]

1999:

Taj Mahal & Toumani Diabaté [idem]

2003:

Harry Manx & Kevin Breit [idem]

2006:

Marianne Faithfull [op The Harry Smith Project Revisited]

2006:

Meindert Talma & The Negroes [als John Henry]

2009:

Pines

2013:

Rory Block

2014:

Yusuf Islam [als Tell 'Em I'm Gone, aan zichzelf toegeschreven]

2018:

John Oates

2018:

Mitch Woods [als Take This Hammer met Van Morrison en Taj Mahal]

2018:

Harry Manx [in film Time Keeper]

2023:

Van Morrison [als Take This Hammer]