Biography:
Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991) known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American country and gospel singer and radio and television host. Today, he is best remembered for his hit recording of "Sixteen Tons".
Born in Bristol, Tennessee, to Clarence Thomas Ford and Maud Long, Ford began his radio career as an announcer at station WOPI in Bristol, leaving in 1939 to study classical music and voice at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music.
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Big John Big John
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Every morning at the mine you could see him arrive
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He stood six-foot-six and weighed two-forty-five
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Kind of broad at the shoulder and narrow at the hip
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and everybody knew you didn # 17 t give no lip to Big John
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Nobody seemed to know where John called home
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he just drifted into town and stayed all alone
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He didn # 17 t say much a kind a quiet and shy
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and if you spoke at all you just said hi to Big John
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Somebody said he came from New Orleans
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where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen
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and a crashing blow from a huge right hand
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sent a Louisiana fellow to the promised land Big John
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Then came the day at the bottom of the mine
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when a timber cracked and the men started crying
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Miners were praying and hearts beat fast
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and everybody thought that they'd breathed their last 'cept John
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Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell
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walked a giant of a man that the miners knew well
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grabbed a sagging timber and gave out with a groan
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and like a giant oak tree just stood there alone Big John
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And with all of his strength he gave a mighty shove
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then a miner yelled out # There's a light up above # 1
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And twenty men scrambled from a would be grave
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and now there's only one left down there to save Big John
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With jacks and timbers they started back down
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then came that rumble way down in the ground
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and smoke and gas belched out of that mine
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everybody knew it was the end of the line for Big John
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Now they never reopened that worthless pit
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they just placed a marble stand in front of it
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These few words are written on that stand
# At the bottom of this mine lies a big big man Big John
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