Dean Jimmy Big Bad John Lyrics

Big Bad John Lyrics

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

 Big John

 Big Bad John

 Big John