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Sixteen Tons Songtext

Merle Travis - Sixteen Tons
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Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said: "Well, a-bless my soul!"

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion
Cain't no-a high-toned woman make me walk the line

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't a-get you, then the left one will

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
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Album Folk Songs of the Hills / Back Home / Songs of the Coal Mines (1999)

Merle Travis
  1. 1.
    Nine Pound Hammer
  2. 2.
    That's All
  3. 3.
    John Bolin
  4. 4.
    Muskrat
  5. 5.
    Dark as a Dungeon
  6. 6.
    John Henry
  7. 7.
    Sixteen Tons
  8. 8.
    Possom Up a Simmon Tree
  9. 9.
    I Am a Pilgrim
  10. 10.
    Over by Number Nine
  11. 11.
    Barbara Allen
  12. 12.
    Lost John
  13. 13.
    Black Gold
  14. 14.
    The Harlan County Boys
  15. 15.
    Payday Comes Too Slow
  16. 16.
    The Browder Explosion
  17. 17.
    Bloody Brethitt County
  18. 18.
    Here's to the Operator, Boys
  19. 19.
    The Miner's Wife
  20. 20.
    The Courtship of Second Cousin Claude
  21. 21.
    Miner's Strawberries
  22. 22.
    Paw Walked Behind Us With a Carbide Lamp
  23. 23.
    Preacher Lane
  24. 24.
    Dear Old Halifax
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