Karaoké Big Bad John Jimmy Dean

Every morning at the mine

You could see him arrive

He stood six foot six and weighed two fourty five

Kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip

And everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Big John

Big bad John

Nobody seemed to know where John called home

He just drifted into town and stayed all alone

Didn't say much kinda quiet and shy

And if you spoke at all you just said hi to Big John

Somebody said he came from New Orleans

Where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen

And a crash'n blow from a huge right hand

Sent a Louisiana fella to the Promised Land, Big John

Big bad John

Then came the day at the bottom of the mine

When a timber cracked and men started cryin'

Miners were prayin' and hearts beat fast

And everybody thought they'd breathed their last

'Cept John

Through the dust and the smoke of this manmade hell

Walked a giant of a man the miners' knew well

Grabbed a saggin' timber and gave out with a groan

And like a giant oak tree just stood there alone Big John

Big bad John

And with all of his strength he gave a mighty shove

And then a miner yelled out there's a light up above

And twenty men scrambled from a would be grave

And now there's only one left down there to save Big John

With jacks and timbers they started back down

Then came that rumble way down in the ground

The smoke and the gas belched outta that mine

Everybody knew it was the end of the line

For Big John

Big bad John

Now they never reopened that worthless pit

They 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

Big bad John

Big bad John