Key: F major
Verse 1
Big
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G#
John,
Big
F#
G#
John
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G#
Every morning at the mine
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F#
He stood six foot six and weighed 245
didn't give no lip to
Big
John
Big
E#m
John,
Big
C#
John
Bad
G#
John
F#
Big
G#
John
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G#
Nobody seemed to know where
G#m
B
F#
John called home
and stayed all alone
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G#
He didn't say much,
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F#
And if you spoke at all, you just said hi to
Big
G#
John
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G#
Somebody said he came from
C#
New
Orleans
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G#
Where he got in a fight over a
Cajun queen
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G#
And a crashing blow from a
sent a
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F#
Louisiana fella to the promised land,
Big
G#
John.
Big
E#m
John,
Big
C#
John,
D#
Big
Bad
G#
John,
F#
Big
G#
John.
F#
G#
Then came the day at the
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F#
and men started crying.
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F#
and hearts beat fast
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G#
breathed their last except
John.
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G#
Through the dust and the smoke
G#m
B
F#
miners knew well
just stood there alone
Big
John
Big
Fm
John
Big
Db
John
Bad
G#
John
A
Big
John
G
F#m
A
G#
And with all of his strength
G
A
Then a miner yelled out,
there's a light up above
G
A
And twenty men scrambled
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E#m
from a would -be grave
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A#
G#
Now there's only one left
A
G
down there to save
Big
A
John
G
A
With jacks and timbers
F#m
A
Then came that rumble way
A
B
And as smoke and gas belched
G
A
F#m
Everybody knew it was the
Big
A
John
Big
F#m
John,
Big
D
John,
E
Big
John,
Big
G
A
John.
G
A
Now they never reopened that worthless pit,
G
F#
B
F#m
G
they just placed a marble stand in front of it.
A
A
These few words are written on that stand.
Ab
A
At the bottom of this mine lies a big,
big man.
E
Big
John.
Big
Big
D
John.
Bad
A
A
John.
G
Big
A
John.
Big
John.
Big
Bad
John.
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