Lyrics:

Artist: Alberto Vázquez
Title: 16 tons
16 ton's, Tennesee Earney Ford

Some people say a man is made out of mud
A poor mans made out of muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and Skin and bone
A mind that's a weak A back thats strong
You load 16 ton's What do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint peter don't you call me
cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
.
I was born one morning when
the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded 16 tons of number nine coal
and the straw boss said
well a bless my soul
.
You load 16 tons and what do you get
another day older and deeper in debt
Saint peter don't you call me cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
.
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I was born one morning it was drisslin rain
Fightin and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the cain brake
by a old moma lion
Can't no high toned woman make me
walk the line
You load 16 tons and what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint peter don't you call me
cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
.
If you see me commin better step aside
Alot of men didn't allot of men died
One fist of iron the other of steel
If the right one don't get you then the left one will
You load 16 tons what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint peter don't you call me
cause I can't go
.
I owe my soul
to the company store