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 | ----------------------------------- | 

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.