Songs:16 Tons (3542)
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Tons
"Sixteen Tons" is a song about the misery of coal mining. Although generally credited as being written in 1947 by U.S. country singer Merle Travis, it has also been claimed that the Travis version was actually plagiarized from an earlier song called "Nine-to-ten tons", written by a singer called George S. Davis in the 1930s. A 1955 version recorded by 'Tennessee' Ernie Ford was on the b-side of his cover of the Moon Mullican standard, "You Don't Have to Be a Baby to Cry". However, it was Ford's "Sixteen Tons" that reached number one in the Billboard charts, besting the performance of the competing version by Johnny Desmond.
Lyrics
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 bones A mind thats weak and a back thats strong. You load sixteen tons and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter dont you call me Cause I cant go. I owe my soul to the company store. I was born one morning when the sun didnt shine. I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine. I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal. And the store boss said Well bless my soul. Chorus You load sixteen tons.. I was born one morning it was drizzling rain. Fighting and trouble are my middle name. I was raised in the cambric by an ol mama lion. Cant know a high toned woman make me walk the line. Chorus You load sixteen tons.. If you see me coming better step aside. A lotta men didnt, a lotta men died. One fist of iron, the other of steel. If the right one dont get you the left one will. Chorus You load sixteen tons..
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