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JJ | Obit: Country singer Jimmy Dean (13 June 2010) (29) | RE: Obit: Country singer Jimmy Dean (13 June 2010) | 15 Jun 10 |
I remember how surprised my mother and I were in 1961 when, after buying the 45 of "Big Bad John," we discovered that the lyric was not the laundered one we'd heard on the radio -- "At the bottom of this mine lies a big, big man" -- but the more direct, "At the bottom of this mine lies one hell of a man!" |