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