Tonalidad: F major
Verse 1
Big
Ab
Bb
John,
Big
Ab
Bb
John
Ab
Bb
Every morning at the mine
Ab
you could see him arrive
Bb
Ab
He stood six foot six and weighed 245
Bb
Kind of broad at the shoulder
Ab
and narrow at the hip
Bb
And everybody knew you
didn't give no lip to
Big
John
Big
Gm
John,
Big
Eb
John
Bad
Bb
John
Ab
Big
Bb
John
Ab
Bb
Nobody seemed to know where
Bbm
Db
Ab
John called home
Bb
He just drifted into town
and stayed all alone
Ab
Bb
He didn't say much,
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he kind of quiet and shy
Bb
Ab
And if you spoke at all, you just said hi to
Big
Bb
John
Ab
Bb
Somebody said he came from
Eb
New
Orleans
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Bb
Where he got in a fight over a
Cajun queen
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Bb
And a crashing blow from a
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huge right hand
sent a
Bb
Ab
Louisiana fella to the promised land,
Big
Bb
John.
Big
Gm
John,
Big
Eb
John,
F
Big
Bad
Bb
John,
Ab
Big
Bb
John.
Ab
Bb
Then came the day at the
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bottom of the mine
Bb
when a timber cracked
Eb
Ab
and men started crying.
Bb
Miners were praying
Eb
Ab
and hearts beat fast
Bb
and everybody thought that they'd
C
Bb
breathed their last except
John.
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Bb
Through the dust and the smoke
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of this man -made hell
Bb
Walked a giant of a man that the
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Db
Ab
miners knew well
Bb
Grabbed a saggin' timber
Ab
and gave out with a groan
Bb
And like a giant oak tree
just stood there alone
Big
John
Big
Gm
John
Big
Eb
John
Bad
Bb
John
B
Big
John
A
Abm
B
Bb
And with all of his strength
B
he gave a mighty shove
A
B
Then a miner yelled out,
there's a light up above
A
B
And twenty men scrambled
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Gm
from a would -be grave
Bb
C
Bb
Now there's only one left
B
A
down there to save
Big
B
John
A
B
With jacks and timbers
A
they started back down
G#m
B
Then came that rumble way
Bb
down in the ground
B
Db
And as smoke and gas belched
Bb
out of that mine
A
B
Abm
Everybody knew it was the
A
end of the line for
Big
B
John
Big
Abm
John,
Big
E
John,
Gb
Big
John,
Big
A
B
John.
A
B
Now they never reopened that worthless pit,
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G#
C#
G#m
A
they just placed a marble stand in front of it.
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B
These few words are written on that stand.
Bb
B
At the bottom of this mine lies a big,
big man.
F#
Big
John.
Big
Big
E
John.
Bad
B
B
John.
A
Big
B
John.
Big
John.
Big
Bad
John.
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