BIG STRONG MAN ( …; cut time)

G7           C                                       C           C                    G

Have you heard about the big strong man, he lived in a caravan

                G                                                 G        G7                          C

Have you heard about the Jeffrey Johnston fight,  Oh what a hell of a fight

              C                                             C                   C                                         G

You can take all the heavyweights you got We got a lad who will beat the whole lot

     G                                         G                         G                        C

He used to ring the bells in the belfry Now he’s gonna fight Jack Dempsey

Chorus:           C                C 

Was me brother Sylvest (what’s he got)

          C                                       G              

Got a row of forty medals on his chest (big chest)

     G                                       G                           C

He killed fifty bad men in the west he knows no rest

C                                           C                                  C

Think of the man, hell’s fire, don’t push, just shove, plenty room for you and me

            C                               C                                           G                      G

Got an arm, like a leg, and a punch that could sink a battleship (big ship) Takes all the army and

      G                       G                 C

the navy, to put the wind up, Sylvest

 G7    C                                          C        C                                 G

He     thought he’d take a trip to Italy, he thought that he’d go by sea

      G                                           G              G7                             C

He dived off the harbour in New York, he swam like a great big shark

      C                                   C                         C                G

He saw the Lusitania in distress, put the Lusitania on his chest

G                                       G          G                                C

Drank all the water in the sea, He walked all the way to Italy

G7     C                                               C             C                                     G

He    thought he’d take a trip to old Japan, they brought out the big brass band

      G                                              G              G7                                   C

He played every instrument they’d got, what a lad, he played the whole lot

        C                           C            C                                G

The old church bell will ring, the old church choir will sing

          G                                   G                    G              C

They all turned out to say farewell, to my big brother Sylvest