Every morning at the mine you could see him arrive, he stood 6'6 and weighed 245 kinda broad at the shoulders and narrow at the hips, and everybody knew you aint give no lip to big john, He just drifted into town He didn't say much, he kinda quiet and shy And if you spoke at all, he just said, "Hi" to Big John Somebody said he came from New Orleans Where he got in a fight over a Cajun Queen And a crashin' blow from a huge right hand sent a Louisiana feller to the promise land, his cajun queen