Jimmy Dean

Jimmy Dean

Big Bad John
Composição de (Roy Acuff/Jimmy Dean)
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(Big John), (Big John)  
    
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(Spoken) Ever' mornin' the mine you could see him arrive  
He stood six-foot six and weighed two forty-five  
Kinda broad at the shoulders and narrow at the hip  
Ever'-body knew you didn't give no "lip", to Big John;  

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(Big John), (Big Joh-n), Big Bad John, (Big John).  
  
Nobody seemed to know where John called home  
He just drifted into town and stayed all alone  
He didn't say much, kinda quiet and shy  
And if you spoke at all, you just said hi, to Big John;  
  
Somebody said he came from New Orleans  
Where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen  
And a crashin' blow from a huge right hand  
Sent a Louisana fellow to the promised land, Big John;  
  
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(Big John), (Big Joh-n), Big Bad John, (Big John).  
  
Then came the day at the bottom of the mine  
When a timber cracked and men started cryin'  
Miners were prayin' and hearts beat fast  
And ever'body tho't that they'd breathed their last, 'cept John;  
  
Thru the dust and the smoke of this man made hell  
Walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well  
Grabbed a sagging timber and gave out with a groan  
And like a giant Oak tree just stood there alone, Big John;  
  

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(Big John), (Big Joh-n), Big Bad John, (Big John).  
  
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With all of his strength, he gave a mighty shove     
Then a miner yelled out, there's a light up above  
And twenty men scrambled from a would-be grave  
And now there's only one left down there to save, Big John;  
  
With jacks and timbers they started back down  
Then came that rumble way down in the ground  
And smoke and gas belched out of that mine  
And ever'body knew it was the end of the line, for Big John;  

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(Big John), (Big Joh-n), Big Bad John, (Big John).  
  
Now they never reopened that worthless pit  
They just placed a marble stand in front of it  
These few words are written on that stand  
At the bottom of this mine likes a big, big man, Big John;  
  
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(Big John), (Big Joh-n), Big Bad John, (Big John) (Big John) (to fade)

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