Big Bad John-The Academy Allstars

[ti:Big Bad John] [ar:The Academy Allstars] [al:Hot 100 Number Ones Of 1961] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Big Bad John (大坏蛋约翰) - The Academy Allstars [00:09.04]Ev'ry morning at the mine you could see him arrive [00:11.62] [00:12.21]He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five [00:14.67]Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip [00:17.68]And everybody knew ya didn't give no lip to Big John [00:23.02](Big John Big John) Big Bad John (Big John) [00:32.51] [00:34.97]Nobody seemed to know where John called home [00:37.84]He just drifted into town and stayed all alone [00:40.60]He didn't say much kinda quiet and shy [00:42.91]And if you spoke at all you just said "Hi" to Big John [00:49.15]Somebody said he came from New Orleans [00:51.83]Where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen [00:54.19] [00:54.75]And a crashin' blow from a huge right hand [00:57.67]Sent a Loosiana fellow to the Promised Land-Big John [01:00.70] [01:02.90](Big John Big John) Big Bad John [01:09.23] [01:14.51]Then came the day at the bottom of the mine [01:17.42]When a timber cracked and men started cryin' [01:20.57]Miners were prayin' and hearts beat fast [01:23.51]And everybody thought that they'd breathed their last-'cept John [01:26.20] [01:28.74]Through the dust and the smoke of this man-made hell [01:31.33]Walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well [01:34.74]Grabbed a saggin' timber gave out with a groan [01:37.26]And like a giant oak tree he just stood there alone-Big John [01:40.70] [01:43.23](Big John Big John) Big Bad John [01:49.18] [01:54.85]And with all of his strength he gave a mighty shove [01:57.38]Then a miner yelled out "There's a light up above " [01:59.60] [02:00.49]And twenty men scrambled from a would-be grave [02:02.36] [02:03.28]Now there's only one left down there to save-Big John [02:06.49] [02:09.10]With jacks and timbers they started back down [02:11.31] [02:11.99]Then came that rumble way down in the ground [02:14.50]And then smoke and gas belched out of that mine [02:17.60]Everybody knew it was the end of the line for Big John [02:20.72] [02:22.91](Big John Big John) Big Bad John [02:29.14] [02:34.42]Now they never reopened that worthless pit [02:36.73] [02:37.27]They just placed a marble stand in front of it [02:39.56] [02:40.53]These few words are written on that stand [02:42.73] [02:45.09]At the bottem of this mine lies one hell of a man big john [02:53.63] [02:54.35](Big John Big John) Big Bad John [03:01.16] [03:03.01]Big John Big John Big John Big Bad John