Big Bad John lyrics

Artist  : Jimmy Dean 
Song : Big Bad John
 


(Big John, Big John)
Ev'ry mornin' 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 (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 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 cryin'
Miners
were prayin' 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 "There's
a light up above!"
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 bottem of this mine lies one
hell of a man big john
(Big John, Big John) Big
Bad John (Big John)

FADE (Big John, Big
John) Big Bad John (Big John)