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