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TAY ZONDAY SINGS MERLE TRAVIS lyrics : "Sixteen TONS"

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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