Chord Big Bad John by Johnny Cash

G F every moning at the mine you could see him arrive G F he stood six foot six and weighed 245 G F kinda broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip G F G and everybody knew you didn’t give no lip to big john . Em C D G big john , big jaw - - - - won , big bad john . nobody seemed to know where john called home he just drifted into town and stayed all alone didn’t say much A - kinda quiet and shy and if you spoke at all you just said high to big john somebody said he came down from new orleans where he got in a fight over a cajun queen and a crashing blow from a huge right hand sent a louisiana fellow to the promised land big john chorus G# F# then came one day at the bottom of the mine G# F# when a timber cracked and the men started crying G# F# miners were paraying and their hearts beat fast G# F# G# and everybody thought they’d breathed their last ’cept john G# F# through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell G# F# walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well G# F# grabbed a sagging timber and gave out with a groan G# F# G# and like a giant oak tree just stood there alone big john Fm C# D# G# big john , big jaw - - - - won , big bad john A G with all of his strength he gave a mighty shove A G then a miner yelled out "there’s a light up above A G and 20 men scrambled from w would be grave A G A now there’s only one left down there to save big john A G with jacks and timbers they started back down A G then came that rumble way down in the ground A G and smoke and gas belched from outta that mine A G A everybody knew it was the end of the line for big john F#m D E A big john , big jaw - - - - won , big bad john . return to G now they never re - opened that worthless pit they just placed a marble stand in front of it these few lines are written on that stand "at the bottom of this mine , lies one helluva man . - - big john" . chorus