Em 022000 Em7 020030 C x32010 B7 x21202 Am x02210 Riff e | ----------------------------------- | B | -0-3-4-5-5-0-0--------------------- | G | ---------------0-0----------------- | D | -------------------2-2------1-2---- | A | -----------------------2-2--------- | E | ----------------------------------- | E5 E5 C5 B5 Some people say a man is made out of mud E5 E5 C5 B5 A poor man's made out of muscle and blood E5 A5 Muscle and blood and skin and bone E5 --- A mind that?s weak and a back that's strong refrein: E5 E5 C5 B5 You load sixteen tons and whad do you get? E5 E5 C5 B5 Another day older and deeper in debt E5 A5 Saint Peter don?t ya call me 'cause I can't go E5 --- I owe my soul to the company store If ya hear me coming, you better step aside A lotta men din't and a lotta men died With one fist of iron and the other of steel If the right one don't getcha then the left one will I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine Picked up my shovel and I went to the mine Loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal And the strawboss said, "Well, Bless my soul!" I was born one morning in the drizzling rain Fighting and trouble are my middle name I was raised in the canebreak by and old mama hound Ain't no high-tone woman gonna push me around.