Big Bad John
(专辑: Homesick Heroes - 1988)
[Spoken] Ev'ry morning at the
mine you could see him arrive He stood six foot six and weighed two forty five Kinda broad at the
shoulder and narrow at the
hip And everybody knew ya didn't give no lip to Big John. 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 He 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
crashing blow from a
huge right hand Sent a
Loosiana fellow to the
Promised Land, Big John Big John, Big John, Big Bad John (Big John) Then came the
day at the
bottom of the
mine When a
timber cracked and men started crying Miners were praying and hearts beat fast And everybody thought that they'd Breathed their last-'cept John Through the
dust and the
smoke of this man-made hell Walked a
giant of a
man that the
miners knew well Grabbed a
sagging timber, gave out with a
groan And like a
giant oak tree he just stood there alone, Big John Big John, Big John, Big Bad John (Big John) And with all of his strength he gave a
mighty shove Then 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 With jacks and timbers they started back down Then came that rumble way down in the
ground And then smoke and gas belched out of that mine Everybody knew it was the
end of the
line for Big John Big John, Big John, Big Bad John (Big 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 one hell of a
man, Big John" Big John, Big John, Big Bad John (Big John) (Big John, Big John, Big John)...