Big John lyrics

Artist  : Jimmy Dean 
Song : Big John



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Big John
Big John
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
Everybody knew
you 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
If ya spoke at all, ya just said
hi to Big John

Somebody said he came from
New Orleans
Where he got in a fight o'er a
cajun queen
And a crashin' blow from a huge
right hand
Sent a Lousianna fella 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 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 the saggin'
timber and gave out with a groan
And like a
giant oak tree, 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
As smoke and gas belched outta the
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
re-opened 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 man, Big
John

Big John
Big John
Big Bad
John
Big John