Songtext Bigbad john Jimmy Cliff

Bigbad john

Big John. Big John. Every morning at the mine you could see him arrive.
He stood six-foot-six and weighed twofortyfive.
King of broad at the shoulderat naroow at the hip and everybody knew you did'nt give no lip to Big John. Somebody seemed to know where John called home.
He just drifted into town and stayed all alone.
He did'nt say much a kind a quiet and shy and if you spoke at allyou just said "hi" to Big John. Big John. Big John. Big John. Big Bad John. Nobody 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 Louisiana fellow to the promised land. Big John. Big John. Big John. Big John. Big John. Then came the day at the bottom of the mine when a timber cracked and the men started craying.
Miners were praying and hearts beat fast and everybody thought that they'd breathed their last 'cept John. Through the dust and smoke of this man made hellwalked a giant of a man that the miners knew well.
Grabbed a sagging timber and gave out with a grown and like a giant oak treejust stood there alone. Big John. Big John. Big John. Big John. Big John. And with all of his strengthhe gave a mighty shove;then a miner yelled outthere'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 and smoke and gas belched out of that mine everybody knewit was the end of the line for for Big John. Big John. Big John. 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 bigbig man; Big John. Big John. Big John. Big Bad John. Big John. Big John. ... Big Bad John ...