• Song:

    Sixteen Tons

  • Artist:

    Tennessee Ernie Ford

  • Album:

    Remembering Tennessee E...

Am (x02210@1)                  F (133211@1)          ESome (022100@1)people say a man is made outa mud
Am (x02210@1)                  F (133211@1)          EA (022100@1)poor man's made outa muscle 'n blood...
Am (x02210@1)                  F (133211@1)     EMuscle (022100@1)an' blood an' skin an' bone
Am (x02210@1)                     F (133211@1)         EA (022100@1)mind that's weak and a back that's strong

     Am (x02210@1)                      F (133211@1)      E (022100@1)
cho: You load sixteen tons an' whaddya get?
     Am (x02210@1)                  F (133211@1)        E (022100@1)
     Another day older an' deeper in debt
     Am (x02210@1)                         F (133211@1)          E (022100@1)
     Saint Peter doncha call me 'cause I can't go
     Am (x02210@1)                 E (022100@1)     Am (x02210@1)    I owe my soul to the company sto'

Am (x02210@1)                             F (133211@1)     E (022100@1)
If ya hear me a-comin' ya better step aside
Am (x02210@1)                  F (133211@1)          E (022100@1)
A lotta men din't an' a lotta men died
Am (x02210@1)                          F (133211@1)         E (022100@1)
With one fist of iron an' the other of steel
Am (x02210@1)                                  F (133211@1)       E (022100@1)
If the right one don' getcha then the left one will.

Am (x02210@1)                            F (133211@1)          E (022100@1)
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
Am (x02210@1)                      F (133211@1)         E (022100@1)
Picked up my shovel and I went to the mine
Am (x02210@1)                          F (133211@1)  E (022100@1)
Loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
Am (x02210@1)                           F (133211@1)      E (022100@1)
And the strawboss said, "Well, Bless my soul!"

Am (x02210@1)                          F (133211@1)       E (022100@1)
I was born one morning in the drizzlin' rain
Am (x02210@1)                     F (133211@1)       E (022100@1)
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
Am (x02210@1)                             F (133211@1)          E (022100@1)
I was raised in the canebreak by an' ol' mama hound
Am (x02210@1)                           F (133211@1)     E (022100@1)
Ain't no high-tone woman gonna push me around.


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