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