Big Bad John Chords by Geoff Castellucci

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[F] [G] every morning at the mine you'd see him arrive he stood 6'6, weighed [F] [G] 245, kind of broad at
the shoulder and narrow at the hip and everybody knew you didn't [Fm] give no [G] lip to Big John
[Em] Big John, _ [C] Big John, [D] _ [G] Big Bad [A] John, Big [G] John
[F] [G] Well nobody seemed to know when John called home
He just drifted into town, [F] stayed on [G] alone, didn't say much
Kinda quiet and shy, didn't even spoke at all
Just [F] said [G] hi to Big [Gm] John _ [Cm] Woooah
[D] [F] Somebody [G] said he came from New Orleans
Where he got into a fight over a [F] Cajun [G] queen
In a crashin' blow from a huge right hand
Sent a Louisiana fella to the [F] promised [G] land
Big John, come on
[Em] Big John, _ [C] Big [G] John, [D] _
[Gm] Big Bad John
Then [F] _ [Gm] _
_ came the day, he sat at the bottom of the [F] mine
When a timber cracked and men started [C] crying
Miners were praying and hearts beat [D] fast
And everybody thought they'd grieve their last
_ [F] Except John
[G] Big John, Big John, _ Big [F] _ [G] _ _ _
Bad John
[F] [G] Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell
Walked a giant up in man, the [F] miners knew him [G] well
Grabbed a saggin' timber and gave out with a growl
And like a giant oak tree, he [F] stood there [G] alone
Big John, [Em] Big John, _ [C] Big _ [D] _
_ [G] Bad John _ Woooah
[F] And with all of his strength, he [G] gave a mighty shove
Then [Am] a miner yelled out
There's [Bb] a [Fm] lot of [Gm] rubber
And as [Am] twenty men scrambled [G] from a would-be grave
[F] There was only one left [Em] down there to [D] save
_ _ _ _ [F] _ [G] Big _ _ _ John, [F] [G] Big John, [A] _
[Gm] Big John
_ [Dm] [Gm] With jacks and timbers, they started back [F] down
Then came that rumble way down on the [C] ground
And the smoke and gas belched out of that [D] mine
Everybody knew it was the end [Dm] of the line [Gm] For John
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[Cm] Now [Gm] _ _ _ _ [D] _ _ _
[Gm] they never reopened that worthless pit
[Gm] They [E] just [C] placed a marble slab in front of it
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[C] And [Gm] these few [F] words [C] are written on [Cm] that stand
[Gm] At the bottom of this mine [D] lies a big, big man
[G] _ [Em] Big John, _ [C] Big [D] John, _ _ Big Bad [G] John
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