Can you give me the meaning of these two sentences

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*He's been the death of many, a poor man "Who's gonna kiss your rosy red cheek
It's gonna be that steel drivin' man"  what does these two mean?   Both come from a gun club song "John Hardy" from the album "miami**

What I don't understand is that in the beginning of the song John Hardy killed a man  only one and at the end of the song comes " he has been the death of many" which means he killed more than one person

FumbleFingers Reinstate Monica · Answer

There's definitely no comma in the idiomatic usage many a poor man (which is a dated / stylised / poetic alternative to [he has caused the death of] many poor men).

For the second point, it refers back to who - it means that steel drivin' man is the one who will kiss your rosy red cheek. Where according to Wikipedia's article on this Johnny Cash song, I see that a steel-driving man means a man tasked with hammering a steel drill into rock to make holes for explosives to blast the rock in constructing a railroad tunnel.

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