Born with an mp3 player in his hand...

N--, my eight year-old son, is in a play his elementary school is doing about John Henry. We've been practicing his lines every night for the last two weeks. The other night I started singing John Henry and he was amazed to find out that there was a song "about his play." We went up on the 'net tonight to record a version he could play for his class. I let him pick from a variety of recordings and he liked the Johnny Cash version best. Say what you like, the boy's got taste...