Sixteen Tons

Sixteen Tons Lyrics

Song Sixteen Tons
Artist Tennessee Ernie Ford
Album Sixteen Tons
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[00:05.43] Some people say a man is made out of mud
[00:10.66] A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
[00:13.95] Muscle and blood and skin and bones
[00:17.19] A mind that's weak and a back that's strong
[00:20.39] You load sixteen tons, whattaya get?
[00:23.47] Another day older and deeper in debt
[00:27.13] St. Peter don'cha call me, 'cause I can't go
[00:30.37] I owe my soul to the company store
[00:38.99] I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine
[00:43.67] I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
[00:46.77] I loaded sixteen tons of number-nine coal
[00:50.13] And the straw boss said,
[00:51.71] "Well bless my soul!"
[00:53.14] You load sixteen tons, whattaya get?
[00:56.38] Another day older and deeper in debt
[00:59.74] St. Peter don'cha call me, 'cause I can't go
[01:03.35] I owe my soul to the company store
[01:12.28] I was born one morning, it was drizzlin' rain
[01:16.87] Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
[01:19.98] I was raised in the canebreak by an old mama lion
[01:23.27] Can't no high-toned woman make me walk the line
[01:26.67] You load sixteen tons, whattaya get?
[01:29.74] Another day older and deeper in debt
[01:33.20] St. Peter don'cha call me, 'cause I can't go
[01:36.81] I owe my soul to the company store
[01:46.57] If you see me comin' better step aside
[01:51.42] A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
[01:54.40] One fist of iron, the other of steel
[01:57.89] If the right one don't getcha then the left one will
[02:00.88] You load sixteen tons, whattaya get?
[02:04.12] Another day older and deeper in debt
[02:07.66] St. Peter don'cha call me, 'cause I can't go
[02:13.94] I owe my soul to the company store
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