Karaoke Track: Big Bad John by Jimmy Dean (Sunfly)

BIG BAD JOHN

Kind of broad at the shoulder
and narrow at the hip
And everybody knewr you
didn&#39;t give no lip to big J 01111

Big bad John

Nobody seemed to know

where J 01111 called home

He just drifted into town
and stayed all alone

He didn&#39;t say much
kind of quiet and shy

And if you spoke at all
you just said hi to big J 01111

Somebody said he
came from New Orleans
Where he got in a fight

over a (raging queen l

And a crashng blowr
from a huge right hand
Sent 3 Louisiana fella to
the promised land, big J 01111

Big bad John

Then came the day
at the bottom of the mine
When the timber cracked

and men started crying

Miners were praying
and hearts beating fast
And everybody thought they&#39;d
breathed their last except J 01111

Through the dust and the
smoke of this man made hell
Walked a giant of a man
that the miners knewr well

Grabbed a sagging timber
and gave out With a groan
And like a giant oak tree
just stood there alone, big J 01111

Big bad John

And with all of his
he gave a mighty shove
Then a miner yelled out
there&#39;s a light up above

And twenty men scrambled
from a would be grave
And nour there&#39;s only one left
down there to save, big J olm

With jacks and timbers
they started back down
Then came that rumble
way down in the ground

Smoke and gas
belched, out of that mine
Everybody knewr it was the
end of the line for big J 01111

Big bad John

N 0W they never reopened
that worthless pit
They just placed a marble
stand in front of it

At the bottom of this mine
lies a big, big man, big John