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[00:00.00]Big Bad John (Live) - Jimmy Dean
[00:18.43]Every morning at the mine you could see him arrive
[00:21.23]He stood six-foot-six and weighed two-forty-five
[00:24.54]Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
[00:27.83]Everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Big John
[00:33.26]Big John
[00:35.88]Big John
[00:38.99]Big Bad John
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[00:45.17]Nobody seemed to know where John called home
[00:47.89]He just drifted into town and stayed all alone
[00:51.37]He didn't say much kinda quiet and shy
[00:54.00]If ya spoke at all ya just said hi to Big John
[00:59.73]Somebody said he came from New Orleans
[01:02.62]Where he got in a fight o'er a cajun queen
[01:05.54]And a crashin' blow from a huge right hand
[01:08.42]Sent a Lousianna fella to the promised land Big John
[01:13.71]Big John
[01:16.79]Big John
[01:19.77]Big Bad John
[01:22.46]Big John
[01:26.01]Then came the day at the bottom of the mine
[01:28.86]When a timber cracked and men started cryin'
[01:31.92]Miners were prayin' and hearts beat fast
[01:34.89]And everybody thought they'd
[01:36.21]Breathed their last 'cept John
[01:40.63]Through the dust and the smoke
[01:42.13]Of this man-made hell
[01:43.50]Walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well
[01:46.56]Grabbed the saggin' timber and gave out with a groan
[01:49.33]And like a giant oak tree
[01:50.97]Just stood there alone Big John
[01:54.83]Big John
[01:57.15]Big John
[02:00.65]Big Bad John
[02:03.53]Big John
[02:07.19]And with all of his strength he gave a mighty shove
[02:09.76]Then a miner yelled out there's a light up above
[02:12.80]And twenty men scrambled from a would-be grave
[02:15.77]Now there's only one left down there to save Big John
[02:21.30]With jacks and timbers they started back down
[02:24.16]Then came that rumble way down in the ground
[02:27.25]As smoke and gas belched outta the mine
[02:30.27]Everybody knew it was the end
[02:31.65]Of the line for Big John
[02:35.44]Big John
[02:38.32]Big John
[02:41.37]Big Bad John
[02:44.06]Big John
[02:47.60]Now they never re-opened that worthless pit
[02:50.25]They just placed a marble stand in front of it
[02:53.58]These few words are written on that stand
[02:57.76]At the bottom of this mine lies
[03:00.16]One Hell of a man Big John
[03:04.98]Big John
[03:07.69]Big John
[03:11.01]Big Bad John
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