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