If I Had a Hammer (The Hammer Song) Song Lyrics

15 years ago Lee Hays and I wrote a song and we never expected it will be widely sung
Perhaps me and a few more
But lo and behold, two years ago a young rocker and roller made a record of it
The song is all around the world now

Now the interesting thing is that there is not only two ways of singing this song
There's about five or six different ways
But I found that they nearly all harmonize with each other
Now there is a moral here somewhere
It means that you can sing it the way I wrote it or sing it the way somebody else changed it
Or the way somebody else changed it