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