Big Bad John -- Jimmy Dean
Carol A.
Anyone out there have the original lyrics to Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad
John"?
Thanks...Carol
Wayne Garvin
(posted to alt.music.lyrics and e-mailed to Carol)
On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 09:34:25 -0700 "Carol A." <si...@pacbell.net> wrote:
>Anyone out there have the original lyrics to Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad
>John"?
You'll find the lyrics to "Big Bad John" at Paulo Filho's Billboard Top 25
site (#14 under "Sixties"):
http://www.summer.com.br/~pfilho/oldies_list/presents.htm
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On Sun, 20 Apr 1997 09:34:25 -0700, "Carol A." <si...@pacbell.net>
wrote:
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=>Anyone out there have the original lyrics to Jimmy Dean's "Big Bad
=>John"?
=>
=>Thanks...Carol
Here y'go Carol,
Bill
BIG BAD JOHN
As performed by Jimmy Dean (1962?)
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Every morning at the mine you could see him arrive,
He stood 6 foot 6, and weighed 245,
Kinda broad at the shoulder, and narrow at the hip,
And everybody knew you didn't give no lip
To Big John.
CHORUS:
Big John, Big John, Big bad John,
Big John.
Nobody seemed to know where John called home,
He just drifted into town and stayed all alone.
Never said much, kinda quiet and shy,
And if you spoke at all, you just said "hi",
To big John.
CHORUS
Some folks said he came from New Orleans,
Where he got in a fight over a 'cajun queen,
And a crashin' blow from a huge right hand,
Sent a Louisiana fella to the promised land,
Big John.
CHORUS
Then one day at the bottom of the mine,
A timber cracked, and men started cryin',
Miners were praying, and hearts beat fast,
And everybody thought that they'd breathed their last,
'Cept John.
CHORUS
Throught the dust and the smoke this man made Hell,
Walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well,
Grabbed a sagging timber, and gave out with a groan,
And like a giant oak tree just stood there alone,
Big John.
CHORUS
Then with all his strength he gave a mighty shove,
And a miner yelled out "There's a light up above!",
And twenty men scrambled from a would-be grave,
Now there's only one left down there to save,
Big John.
CHORUS
With jacks and timbers they started back down,
Then came that rumble way down in the ground,
And the smoke and gas belched outa that mine,
And everyone knew it was the end of the line,
For Big John.
CHORUS
Well, they never re-opened that worthless pit,
Just placed a marble stand in front of it,
These few words are written on that stand:
"At the bottom of this mine lies a BIG, BIG man,
Big John".
CHORUS