Jack Root = GOAT

[zojo]

Jack Root
Jack Root
Jack Rooooooooooooot

Every mornning at the mine, you could see him arrive.
He stood 5 foot 10, weighed 168.
Kind of broad at the shoulders, narrow at the hip.
And everybody knew you didn't give no lip to Jack Root.

Jack Root
Jack Root
Big Jack Root

Nobody seemed to know where Jack called home
He just drifted into town and stayed all alone.
He didn't say much, kind of quiet and shy
And if you spoke at all, you'd just said hi to Jack Root.
Somebody said he came from New Orleans,
Where he got into a fight over a Cajun Queen.
And a crash and a blow from a huge right hand,
sent a Lousiana fella to the promise land.

Jack Root
Jack Root
Sort of Big Jack Root

Then came the day at the bottom of the mine,
when a timber cracked and men started crying.
Minors were praying, and hearts beat fast
and everybody thought they had breathed thier last
cept' Jack Root.
Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell,
walked a giant of a man that the minors knew well.
Grabbed a sagging timber and gave out with a groan,
and like a giant oak tree he just stood there alone, Jack Root

Jack Root
Jack Root
Wicked Good Jack Root

And with all of his strength, he gave a mighty shove.
Then a minor yelled out, 'theres a light up above!'.
And 20 men scrambled from a 'would be' grave
now theres only one left down there to save, Jack Root.
With jacks and timbers, they started back down,
then came that rumble way down in the ground.
And as smoke and gas smelched out of that mine,
everybody knew it was the end of the line, for Jack Root.

Jack Root
Jack Root
Better than Ali
Jack Root

Now they never re-opend that wortheless pit,
they just placed a marble stand in front of it.
These few words are written on that stand,
'At the bottom of this mine, lies one Hell of a man, Jack Root

Jack Root
Jack Root
Jack Root

[Goodnight, Irene]

For whatever reason, I read this hearing it in the tune of, "Little Brown Jug."

Hilarious

[Darling]

Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell,
walked a giant of a man that the minors knew well.

Big John. Big Bad John

And what were minors doing below ground?

[zojo]

Through the dust and the smoke of this man made hell,
walked a giant of a man that the minors knew well.

Big John. Big Bad John

And what were minors doing below ground?

It was 1895.
They were working.
No child labor laws.

Jack Root
Jack Root
Jack Rooooooooot

[zojo]

Make that newly enshrined HOFer Jack Root!!!!