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