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Sixteen Tons Karaoke - Tennessee Ernie Ford

This title is a cover version of Sixteen Tons as made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford

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About

Tempo: variable (around 139 BPM)

In the same key as the original: B♭m

Duration: 02:43 - Sample at: 01:16

Release date: 1960
Genres: Country, In English
Original songwriter: Merle Travis

All files available for download are backing tracks, they're not the original music.

Lyrics Sixteen Tons

Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
Of 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 'cos 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 'cos 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 'cos 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 'cos I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

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