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