{"id":511,"date":"2021-05-10T03:59:15","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T03:59:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/?p=511"},"modified":"2026-03-13T22:32:50","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T22:32:50","slug":"if-i-had-a-hammer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/if-i-had-a-hammer\/","title":{"rendered":"If I had a Hammer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by The Weavers<\/p>\n<input type='hidden' bg_collapse_expand='69ea79b814e468078953471' value='69ea79b814e468078953471'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-more-text-69ea79b814e468078953471' value='METAPHOR'><input type='hidden' id='bg-show-less-text-69ea79b814e468078953471' value='Show Less'><button id='bg-showmore-action-69ea79b814e468078953471' class='bg-showmore-plg-button bg-orange-button  '   style=\" color:#4a4949;\">METAPHOR<\/button><div id='bg-showmore-hidden-69ea79b814e468078953471' >The &#8220;hammer&#8221; in this song is a metaphor for power, and a call to use that power to promote love and fight injustice. It&#8217;s a song that has endured through changing times because the message is constant.<br \/>\nPeter Yarrow of Peter, Paul &amp; Mary said in Performing Songwriter &#8220;The civil rights movement embraced If I Had A Hammer as a kind of an anthem, but that song was also sung very much as part of grass roots movements like the peace movement and the environmental movement. It is a song of empowerment, and songs that empower with the sense of elasticity so they can relate to the world as it evolves also will remain with us.&#8221;<\/div>\n<pre class=\"tK8GG Ty_RP\"><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;\"><span class=\"y68er\">[Intro]   - - - -  <\/span><span class=\"y68er\"><span class=\"fsG7q\">[ C G F G ]<\/span>  4x\r\n<\/span> \r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Verse] - - - - - <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">If I had a [C] hammer, [ G F G ]   <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd hammer in the [C] morning [ G F G ]  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd hammer in the [C] evening, [ G F ] <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">all over this [G] land. <\/span><\/span> <span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd hammer out [C] danger,  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd hammer out a [Am] warning.  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd hammer out [F] love [C] between, my [F] brothers and my [C] sisters, [F] all [G] over this land  \r\n[ G F G ] [ C G F G ]\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Verse] - - - - - <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">If I had a [C] bell, [ G F G ] <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd ring it in the [C] morning. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"> <span class=\"y68er\">[ G F G ] <\/span><span class=\"y68er\">I'd ring it in the [C] evening, [ G F ] <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">all over this [G] land.<\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"> <span class=\"y68er\">I'd ring out [C] danger, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd ring out a [Am] warning.  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd ring out <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">[F] love [C] between, my [F] brothers and my [C] sisters, [F] all [G] over this land \r\n[ G F G ] [ C G F G ]\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Verse] - - - - - <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">If I had a [C] song, [ G F G ] <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd sing it in the [C] morning, [ G F G ] <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd sing it in the [C] evening, [ G F ] <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">all over this [G] land.    <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd sing out [C] danger, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd sing out a [Am] warning.  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">I'd sing out [F] love [C] between, my [F] brothers and my [C] sisters, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">[F] all [G] over this [C] land.  \r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><span style=\"font-size: 16pt; font-family: trebuchet ms, geneva, sans-serif; font-weight: 900;\"><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">[ G F G ]  [ C G F G ]\r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n<span class=\"y68er\">[Verse] - - - - - <\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">Well I got a [C] hammer, [ G F G ] <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">and I got a [C] bell [ G F G ]  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">And I got a [C] song [G] to [F] sing, <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">all over this [G] land. \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">STANZA:   It's the hammer of [C] justice,  <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">It's the bell of [Am] freedom. <\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\">It's the song about [F] love [C] between, my [F] brothers and my [C] sisters, <\/span><\/span><\/span><span class=\"fsG7q\"><span class=\"y68er\"><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">[F] all [G] over this [C] land.  [ G F G ]<\/span> \r\n<\/span><\/span> \r\n<span class=\"fsG7q\" style=\"color: #ff0000;\"><span class=\"y68er\">REPEAT STANZA ONE TIME\r\n<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/pre>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by The Weavers [Intro] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; [ C G F G ] 4x [Verse] &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; &#8211; If I had a [C] hammer, [ G F G ] I&#8217;d hammer in the [C] morning [ G F G ] I&#8217;d hammer in the [C] evening, [ &hellip; <span class=\"more-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/if-i-had-a-hammer\/\" class=\"more-link\">CLICK TO VIEW SONG<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">If I had a Hammer<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,133,126,265,13,116,117,123,115,131],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3-chords","category-baritone-bill","category-bass-guitar-night","category-best-songs","category-x-bill-chase","category-live-baritone","category-live-piano","category-live-songlist-tenor","category-live-tenor","category-power-outage"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=511"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":30170,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/511\/revisions\/30170"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.robertandrews.net\/songs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}