Some people say a man is made out of mud
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong
You load sixteen tons, whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha 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 sixteen tons of number-nine coal
And the straw boss said, [Well
bless
my
soul!]
You load sixteen tons, whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one morning, it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the canebreak by an old mama lion
Can't no high-toned woman make me walk the line
You load sixteen tons, whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
If you see me comin' better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't getcha then the left one will
You load sixteen tons, whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
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- Tennessee Ernie Ford Sings Songs of the Civil War
- Sixteen Tons
- 16 Tons of Boogie: The Best of Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Farmyard Boogie
- Original & Greatest Hits, Volume 1
- Masters 1949 - 1976
- The History of Country & Western Music
- Country & Western
- Blues Spirit
- 36 All Time Greatest Hits
- The History of Pop Radio: 1920-1951
- Vintage Collections Series
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- The History of Pop Radio, Vol. 20 (1950-1951)