Big Bad John - Jimmy Dean

作曲：Jimmy Dean

Every morning at the mine

you could see him arrive

He stood six foot six

and weighed two forty five

Kinda broad at the shoulder

and narrow at the hip

And everybody knew ya

didn't give no lip to Big John

(Big John Big John)

Big Bad 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 &quot Hi&quot 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 Loosiana fellow

to the Promised Land-Big John

(Big John Big John)

Big Bad John (Big John)

Then came the day

at the bottom of the mine

When a timber cracked

and men started crying

Miners were praying

and hearts beat fast

And everybody thought that

they'd breathed their last-'cept John

Through the dust

and the smoke of this man-made hell

Walked a giant of a man

that the miners knew well

Grabbed a saggin' timber

gave out with a groan

And like a giant oak tree

he just stood there alone-Big John

(Big John Big John)

Big Bad John (Big John)

And with all of his strength

he gave a mighty shove

Then a miner yelled out &quot

There's a light up above &quot

And twenty men scrambled

from a would-be grave

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 then smoke and gas belched

out of that mine

Everybody knew it was the end of

the line for Big John

(Big John Big John)

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 lies

one hell of a big big man big john

(Big John Big John)

Big Bad John (Big John)

(Big John) Big Bad John