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