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