The Big Strong Man Songtext

Have you heard about the big strong man? He lives in a caravan Have you heard about the Jeffrey-Johnson fight? Oh, Lord what a hell of a fight You can take all the heavyweights you've got We got a lad who could beat the whole lot He used to ring the bells in the belfry Now he's gonna fight Jack Dempsey [Chorus] 'twas was my brother, Sylvest (what's he got?) A row of forty medals on his chest (big chest!) He killed fifty bad men in the West He knows no rest Bigger the man, hell's fire don't push (just shove) Plenty o'room for you and me He's got an arm like a leg And a punch that would sink a battle ship (big ship!) It takes all the army and the navy To put the wind up Sylvest [Chorus] And he thought he'd take a trip to Italy He thought that he'd go by the sea He dived off the harbour in New York And he swam like a man made of Cork He saw the Lusitania in distress He put the Lusitania on his chest He drunk all the water in the sea And he walked all the way to Italy. [Chorus] He thought he'd take a trip to old Japan So they brought out the whole brass brand He played every instrument they'd got What a lad, he played the whole lot. Well the old church bells did ring The old church choir did ing They all turned out to bid farewell To my big brother Sylvest.