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by Tennessee Ernie Ford
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Some people say a man is made out of mud
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong
You load sixteen tons and whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one morning 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, bless my soul"
You load sixteen tons and whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Find more similar lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.com/8OMjI was born one morning, it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the Cane break by an old mama lion
Can't no high-toned woman make me walk the line
You load sixteen tons and whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha 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 getcha then the left one will
You load sixteen tons and whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong
You load sixteen tons and whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one morning 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, bless my soul"
You load sixteen tons and whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Find more similar lyrics on http://mp3lyrics.com/8OMjI was born one morning, it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the Cane break by an old mama lion
Can't no high-toned woman make me walk the line
You load sixteen tons and whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha 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 getcha then the left one will
You load sixteen tons and whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
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Tennessee Ernie Ford Sixteen Tons Recording details & track overview
["SIXTEEN TONS"{5}]
Written by: Merle Travis-1946{6}
Produced by: Lee Gillette
Performed by: Tennessee Ernie Ford{7}{8}
First released:{9}
Single: October 1955
Album: 1960
[If you don't see the green, footnote reference numbers in the above version of
the lyrics, try going to the previous version. There you should find the
corrected and updated lyrics and the footnote references.]
{1}The company store was a general store that was owned by the mining company.
Miners resented the company store because their prices were much higher than an
independent retail stores, their grocery and supply bills were deducted from
their earnings before they received their pay, and trading was compulsory.
Moreover, the debts which a miner piled up in the store bound him as securely
to his employer as miners were bound to feudal barons in medieval Scotland.
When an mine owner was unable to expand his mining capacity or the volume of
his sales, he would increase the number of his miners. This wou.....MORE.....(all Sixteen Tons track/recording details) ←
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