Big Band John-Jimmie Dean

[ti:Big Bad John] [ar:Jimmie Dean] [al:Country Hits Vol.2] [by:] [offset:0] [00:00.00]Big Band John - Jimmie Dean [00:00.62]Big John [00:03.17]Big John [00:04.32] [00:06.66]Every mornin' at the mine you could see him arrive [00:09.14]He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five [00:12.01]Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip [00:15.11]And everybody knew ya didn't give no lip to [00:17.82]Big John [00:19.82]Big John big John [00:25.61]Big bad John [00:27.82] [00:28.56]Big John [00:30.78] [00:31.61]Nobody seemed to know where John called home [00:34.41]He just drifted into town and stayed all alone [00:36.82] [00:37.42]He didn't say much he kinda quiet and shy [00:40.21]And if you spoke at all he just said hi to [00:42.82]Big John [00:43.42] [00:45.54]Somebody said he came from new orleans [00:48.43]Where he got in a fight over a cajun queen [00:51.22]And a crashin' blow from a huge right hand [00:53.93]Sent a louisiana fellow to the promised land [00:56.65]Big John [00:57.28] [00:59.10]Big John big John [01:04.79]Big bad John [01:06.57] [01:07.64]Big John [01:09.75] [01:10.91]Then came the day at the bottom of the mine [01:13.59]When a timber cracked and men started cryin' [01:16.64]Miners were prayin' and hearts beat fast [01:19.21]And everybody thought that they'd breathed their last 'cept John [01:22.15] [01:24.56]Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell [01:27.33]Walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well [01:30.17]Grabbed a saggin' timber gave out with a groan [01:32.85]And like a giant oak tree he just stood there alone [01:35.56]Big John [01:36.17] [01:37.94]Big John big John [01:43.75]Big bad John [01:46.02] [01:46.58]Big John [01:48.95] [01:49.94]And with all of his strength he gave a mighty shove [01:52.38]Then a miner yelled out there's a light up above [01:55.16]And twenty men scrambled from a would be grave [01:58.28]Now there's only one left down there to save big [02:00.93]John [02:01.58] [02:03.74]With jacks and timbers they started back down [02:06.31]Then came that rumble way down in the ground [02:09.24]And then smoke and gas belched out of that mine [02:11.65] [02:12.15]Everybody knew it was the end of the line for big John [02:15.31] [02:16.88]Big John big John [02:22.50]Big bad John [02:24.36] [02:25.42]Big John [02:27.55] [02:28.57]Now they never reopened that worthless pit [02:31.24]They just placed a marble stand in front of it [02:33.79] [02:34.40]These few words are written on that stand [02:36.59] [02:38.06]At the bottom of this mine lies a big big man [02:42.41] [02:43.20]Big John [02:44.20] [02:45.47]Big John big John [02:50.98]Big bad John [02:53.40] [02:53.95]Big John [02:55.50] [02:56.63]Big John