Tonart: F major
Verse 1
Big
Eb
F
John,
Big
Eb
F
John
Eb
F
Every morning at the mine
Eb
you could see him arrive
F
Eb
He stood six foot six and weighed 245
F
Kind of broad at the shoulder
Eb
and narrow at the hip
didn't give no lip to
Big
John
Big
Dm
John,
Big
Bb
John
Bad
F
John
Eb
Big
F
John
Eb
F
Nobody seemed to know where
Fm
Ab
Eb
John called home
F
He just drifted into town
and stayed all alone
Eb
F
He didn't say much,
Eb
he kind of quiet and shy
F
Eb
And if you spoke at all, you just said hi to
Big
F
John
Eb
F
Somebody said he came from
Bb
New
Orleans
Eb
F
Where he got in a fight over a
Cajun queen
Eb
F
And a crashing blow from a
sent a
F
Eb
Louisiana fella to the promised land,
Big
F
John.
Big
Dm
John,
Big
Bb
John,
C
Big
Bad
F
John,
Eb
Big
F
John.
Eb
F
Then came the day at the
Bb
Eb
and men started crying.
Bb
Eb
and hearts beat fast
F
and everybody thought that they'd
G
F
breathed their last except
John.
Eb
F
Through the dust and the smoke
Eb
of this man -made hell
F
Walked a giant of a man that the
Fm
Ab
Eb
miners knew well
F
Grabbed a saggin' timber
Eb
and gave out with a groan
F
And like a giant oak tree
just stood there alone
Big
John
Big
Dm
John
Big
Bb
John
Bad
F
John
Gb
Big
John
E
Ebm
Gb
F
And with all of his strength
Gb
he gave a mighty shove
E
Gb
Then a min er yelled out,
there's a light up above
E
Gb
And twenty men scrambled
F
Dm
from a would -be grave
F
G
F
Now there's only one left
Gb
E
down there to save
Big
F#
John
E
F#
With jacks and timbers
D#m
Gb
Then came that rumble way
Gb
Ab
And as smoke and gas belched
E
Gb
Ebm
Everybody knew it was the
Big
Gb
John
Big
Ebm
John,
Big
B
John,
Db
Big
John,
Big
E
Gb
John.
E
Gb
Now they never reopened that worthless pit,
E
D#
G#
D#m
E
they just placed a marble stand in front of it.
F#
F#
These few words are written on that stand.
F
F#
At the bottom of this mine lies a big,
big man.
C#
Big
John.
Big
Big
B
John.
Bad
F#
F#
John.
E
Big
F#
John.
Big
John.
Big
Bad
John.
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