1 | -> Then came the day at the bottom of the mine,\ |
2 | When a timber cracked and men started crying.\ |
3 | Miners were praying, and hearts beat fast\ |
4 | And everybody thought they had breathed their last\ |
5 | Cept' John.\ |
6 | Through the dust and the smoke of this man-made hell,\ |
7 | walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well.\ |
8 | Grabbed a sagging timber and gave out with a groan,\ |
9 | and like a giant oak tree he just stood there alone,\ |
10 | Big John\ |
11 | \ |
12 | Big John\ |
13 | Big John\ |
14 | Big Bad John\ |
15 | Big John\ |
16 | \ |
17 | And with all of his strength, he gave a mighty shove.\ |
18 | Then a miner yelled out, 'There's a light up above!'.\ |
19 | And 20 men scrambled from a would-be grave\ |
20 | Now there's only one left down there to save, \ |
21 | Big John.\ |
22 | With jacks and timbers, they started back down,\ |
23 | Then came that rumble way down in the ground.\ |
24 | And as smoke and gas belched out of that mine,\ |
25 | Everybody knew it was the end of the line,\ |
26 | For Big John.\ |
27 | \ |
28 | Now they never re-opened that worthless pit,\ |
29 | They just placed a marble stand in front of it.\ |
30 | These few words are written on that stand,\ |
31 | 'At the bottom of this mine, lies a ''big'', '''''big''''' man[[note]]"a Hell of a man" in some recordings.[[/note]], Big John'.\ |
32 | |
33 | -->--'''Big Bad John''', Jimmy Dean and Roy Acuff |
34 | |
35 | ->''Don't make me put this down!'' |
36 | -->--'''[[GlacierWaif Toph]]''', ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' |
37 | |
38 | ->''I can't...hold up '''the East River'''...much longer, folks!'' |
39 | -->--'''ComicBook/SpiderMan''', ''Amazing Spider-Man 578'' |
40 | |
41 | ->''Wreckage! My greatest enemy! Damn you all to-'' |
42 | -->--'''Spider-Man''', ''ComicBook/HowardTheDuck'' (2015) |
43 |
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