text: Big Bad John\nJimmy Dean\n\n(Words and Music by Jimmy Dean)\n\n\n(Big John, Big John) \nEv'ry mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive \nHe stood six foot six and weighed two forty five \nKinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip \nAnd everybody knew ya didn't give no lip to Big John. \n(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John (Big John) \n\nNobody seemed to know where John called home \nHe just drifted into town and stayed all alone \nHe didn't say much, kinda quiet and shy \nAnd if you spoke at all, you just said "Hi" to Big John. \n\nSomebody said he came from New Orleans \nWhere he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen \nAnd a crashin' blow from a huge right hand \nSent a Loosiana fellow to the Promised Land-Big John \n(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John (Big John) \n\nThen came the day at the bottom of the mine \nWhen a timber cracked and men started cryin' \nMiners were prayin' and hearts beat fast \nAnd everybody thought that they'd breathed their last-'cept John \n\nThrough the dust and the smoke of this man-made hell \nWalked a giant of a man that the miners knew well \nGrabbed a saggin' timber, gave out with a groan \nAnd like a giant oak tree he just stood there alone-Big John \n(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John (Big John) \n\nAnd with all of his strength he gave a mighty shove \nThen a miner yelled out "There's a light up above!" \nAnd twenty men scrambled from a would-be grave \nNow there's only one left down there to save-Big John \n\nWith jacks and timbers they started back down \nThen came that rumble way down in the ground \nAnd then smoke and gas belched out of that mine \nEverybody knew it was the end of the line for Big John \n(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John (Big John) \n\nNow they never reopened that worthless pit \nThey just placed a marble stand in front of it \nThese few words are written on that stand \nAt the bottom of this mine lies a hell of man, Big John \n(Big John, Big John) Big Bad John (Big John) \n\nFADE (Big John, Big John) Big Bad John (Big John)