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| Was #1 on the BILLBOARD charts for five weeks, beginning in October 1961. (sav-man) |
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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
You didn't give no lip to Big John
(Big John, Big John)
Big bad John
(Big 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 crashing blow
From a huge right hand
Sent a Louisiana fellow
To the Promised Land, Big John
(Big John, Big John)
Big bad John
(Big 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 sagging timber
And 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 bottom of this mine
Lies a big, big man, Big John
(Big John, Big John)
Big bad John (big John)
(Big John) big bad John
(Dave AuJus) |
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