Big John Davy chords by Jimmie Driftwood

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Verse 1
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Oh,  (C major) Big John Davy was a mighty man,
King of the Ozark Mountain Clan.
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 (F major) Lived in a cabin that was two mile high,
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 (C major) Couldn't jump a tree without
a bump in the sky.
King of the Ozark Mountain Clan,
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 (F major) Big  (C major) John Davy was a mighty man.
Oh, way back in the Gulf of Mexico
Ran clear up into the Ohio
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Big John needed more  (F major) land for corn
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So he  (C major) blew back the water
with his buffalo horn
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Big John Davy planted taters and  (F major) beans
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And a  (C major) roast near Pratt's went
to New Orleans
Oh, Big John Davy was a -goin' to mill
In the middle of the road he met Pecos Bill
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They  (F major) got in a wrassle in a shady drawl
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 (C major) Wallered out the valley of the Arkansas
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King of the Ozark Mountain  (F major) Clan
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 (C major) Big John Davy was a mighty man
When Big John Davy got a little bit dry
He grabbed the big dipper
where she hung in the sky
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Dipped her in the  (F major) holler where
he made his brew
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Filled  (C major) all the rivers with his mountain dew
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King of the Ozark Mountain  (F major) Clan,
Mountain Clan,
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 (C major) Big John Davy was a mighty man
Oh, Big John Davy had a sweet little wife
He loved her better than
he loved his own life
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He  (F major) gave her jewels and he gave her joys
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And  (C major) she gave him twenty -seven big boys
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King of the Ozark Mountain Clan,  (F major) 
Mountain Clan,
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 (C major) Big John Davy was a mighty man
Oh, Big John Davey was a -chasin' a fox
He met Paul Bunyan and his old blue ox
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The  (F major) old blue  (C major) ox started
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 (F major) smellin' the ground
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And  (C major) jined right in with
the old yaller hound
Here they went with a bale and a ball
Chased old Red Dale
away in the fall
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 (F major) Circled the Rockies and the Blue Rage too
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And  (C major) the old yaller hound
kept a -leadin' old blue
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Paul and Dave sat around on the  (F major) trail
Mountain trails,
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 (C major) short and hard to back around a -tellin' big tales
Oh, no one knows what
ever became of
Big John Davy, that man of fame
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The  (F major) fiddlers a  (C major) -playin' round
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the  (F major) moonshine
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still say  (C major) he's still a -livin' way
back in the hills
King of the Ozark Mountain
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 (F major) Clan Mountain Clan
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 (C major) Big John Davy was a mighty man
Big John Davy was a mighty man
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Big John Davy was a mighty man.  (C major) 