Em   022000
Em7  020030
C    x32010
B7   x21202
Am   x02210

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e | ----------------------------------- | 
B | -0-3-4-5-5-0-0--------------------- | 
G | ---------------0-0----------------- | 
D | -------------------2-2------1-2---- | 
A | -----------------------2-2--------- | 
E | ----------------------------------- | 

Em          Em7          C           B7 
Some people say a man is made out of mud
  Em         Em7         C          B7 
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
Em                   Am 
Muscle and blood and skin and bone
  Em --- 
A mind that?s weak and a back that's strong

refrein: 
         Em      Em7      C           B7 
You load sixteen tons and whad do you get?
  Em        Em7       C         B7 
Another day older and deeper in debt
      Em                          Am 
Saint Peter don?t ya call me 'cause I can't go
  Em ---                  
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.