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