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Big Bad John chords by 
Jim Ed Brown 
N/A•
Key: Bb major•BPM: 79
Verse 1
C
D
C
D
Big John, Big John
C
D
Every morning at the mine
you could see him arrive
C
D
C
Stood six foot six and weighed 245
D
Kind of broad at the shoulder
C
and narrow at the hip
D
An d everybody knew
C
D
you didn't give no limb to Big John
Bm
G
Big John, Big John
A
D
C
A big bad John
D
Nobody seemed to know
C
where John called home
D
G
Just drifted into town
C
D
and stayed all alone
C
D
Didn't say much, kinda quiet and shy
C
D
If you spoke at all,
C
D
you just said hi to Big John
C
Somebody said he came from New Orleans
D
F
Where he got in a fight
C
over a Cajun queen
D
G
In a crash and blow from
C
D
a huge right hand
G
C
Sent a Louisiana fella to the promised land
D
Bm
G
Big John, Big John, Big John,
A
D
C
a big bad John, Big John
D
C
Then came the day at the
D
bottom of the mine
when a timber cracked
C
D
and men started crying
C
D
Miners were praying and hearts beat fast
C
D
and everybody thought they had breathed
C
D
their last except John
C
Through the dust and the smoke
D
of this man -made hell
C
D
Walked a giant of a man
that the miners knew well
G
C
D
Grabbed a saggin' timber
and gave out with a groan
C
D
Like a giant oak tree
G
just stood there alone
F
D
Big John
Bm
Big John
G
Big John
A
D
A big bad John
C
D
Eb
Big John, Big John
C#
Eb
With all of his strength
he gave a mighty shove
Db
Eb
Then a miner yelled out,
Db
there's a light up above
Eb
Twenty men scrambled from
Db
a would -be grave
Eb
Db
Eb
Now there's only one left down there to save,
Db
Eb
Big John
With jacks and timbers
Db
Eb
they started back down
Db
Then came that rumble way
Eb
down in the ground
Db
Eb
The smoking gas belched out of that mine
Db
Eb
And everybody knew it was
the end of the line
Db
Eb
For Big John
Cm
Big John
Ab
Big John
Bb
Eb
A big bad John
Db
Eb
Big John
Now they never reopene
Db
Eb
d that worthless pit
Db
They just placed a marble
Eb
stand in front of it
Db
Eb
These few words are written
Db
on that stand
Eb
At the bottom of this mine
Cm
Eb
lies a big, big man
Big John
Eb
Cm
Big John
Ab
Big John
Bb
Eb
A big bad John
Db
Eb
Big John
Db
Eb
Eb
Db
Eb
Big jump, big jump, big jump
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