Chords for Jimmy Dean - Big Bad John [Live]

_ _ Every [G] morning at the bind you could [F] see him arrive.
He [G] stood 6'6", weighed _ [F] 245, [G] kind of broad at the shoulder and there [F] at the hip.
[G] And everybody knew he didn't give [F] no lift to [G] Big John. _
You ready?
_ [Em] Big John, _ _ _ _ [C] Big John, I gotta [D] remember him all.
[G] Big Bad John, _
_ _ [F] _ Big [G] John. _
_ _ [F] _ _ [G] Nobody seemed to know where John called home.
[G] He just drifted into town and stayed [F] all alone.
[G] _ Didn't say much, he was kind of [F] quiet and [G] shy, but he spoke it all.
You just [F] said hi to [G] Big John. _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ [G] Somebody said he came from New [F] _ [G] Orleans where he got in a fight over a [F] Cajun queen [G] and a crashed boat.
But he [F] dried hands [G] and said hello to the Anafel and to the [F] promised land.
[G] Big John.
You ready?
_ _ _ _ [Em] Big John, _ _ _ _ [C] Big _ _ [D] John, _ [G] _ Big Bad John, _
_ _ [F] _ [G] Big John. _
_ _ [F] _ [G] Then came the day at the bottom [F] of the mine [G] when a timber cracked and men [C] started [G] crying.
Miners were praying, their hearts [F] beat fast.
[G] _ Everybody thought that they'd breathed [Fm] their last [G] except John. _ _
_ _ [F] _ [G] Through the dust and smoke of this man [C]-made hell [G] walked a giant of a man.
The miners [F] knew [G] well that the sagging timber gave out [F] with a groan and [G] like a giant of a tree just stood [F] there alone.
[G] Big John. _ _
_ _ _ _ [Em] Big John, _ _ _ _ [C] Big _ John, [D] _ _ [G] Big Bad John. _
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_ _ [F] _ _ [G] With all his strength he gave a mighty [F] shove and [G] then a miner yelled out, there's a light up [C] above.
[G] Twenty men scrambled from a [F] woodpecker grave, [G] now there's only one left down there [F] to save.
[G] Big John. _ _
_ _ [Fm] With [Gm] jacks and timbers they started [Fm] back down [G] and came back and rumbled way down [F] to the ground.
[G] And smoking gas spouted out of that [F] mine.
[G] Everybody knew it was the end of the [F] line for Big [G] John. _ _
_ _ [Em] Big John, _ _ _ _ Big [C] _ John, [D] _
_ _ [G] Big Bad John, _ _
_ [F] _ Big [G] John. _ _
_ [F] _ Now [G] they never reopened that work [F] with it, they just [G] placed a marble stand in [F] front of it.
[G] These few words are written on [F] that stand, _ [G] _ _ at the bottom of this mine lies a _ big, _ _ _ big John.
_ _ [Em] Big _ John, _ _ _ Big _ [C] _
[D] John, _ _ [G] Big Bad John, _ _ [C] _ _ [G] Big John, _ _ [F] _ [G] Big _ John.
That's fine.
_ Give yourselves a nice round of [G] applause, people of [Gm] Waterford. _ _
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