Sixteen Tons Chords by Tennessee Ernie Ford

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_ _ _ _ _ Some _ _ people say a [F#] man is made out of mud, [B] a [A] poor man's [G#] made out of muscle and [B] blood, _ [Am] muscle and [G] blood and skin [F#] and [B] bones, a mind that's weak and a back that's strong.
When you load [A] sixteen ton, [G#] what [Bm] do you get?
Another day older [G#] and deeper in [B] debt.
St.
Peter, don't you call me [F#] cause I [C#] can't go, [B] I owe my soul to the company store.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I was born one morning when the sun [F#] didn't shine, I picked [Am] up my shovel [G#] and I walked to the mine, I [B] loaded [A] sixteen ton, [G] a number [C#m] nine coal [B] and a straw ball [F] said well bless my [B] soul you load [A] sixteen ton, [G#] what do you get?
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[F#m] Another day [G#m] older and [C#] deeper in debt.
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St.
Peter, don't you call me [F#] cause I [C#m] can't go, [B] I owe my soul to the company store.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I was born one morning it was drizzling rain, fighting [A] and trouble [G#] are my middle name, I was raised in [A] a cane break [G] by an old mama [C#m] lying, can't [B] go a high tone [F#] woman make me walk the line, [B] you load [A] sixteen ton, [G#] what do [F#] you get? _
[Bm] Another day older and deeper in debt.
St.
Peter, don't you call me [Em] cause I can't go, [B] I owe my soul to the company store.
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If [G#] you see me coming better step aside, a [A] lot of men [G#] didn't, a lot of men [B] died, one fist of iron, [G] the other of steel, [B] if the right one don't [F] get you then the left one [G#] will.
You load sixteen ton, [Bm] what do you get?
[F#m] Another day older [G#] and deeper [F#] in debt.
St.
Peter, [G#] don't you call me [Em] cause I can't go, _ _ _ [B] _
_ I owe _ _ _ _ my _ _ _ soul _ _ _ to _ _ _ _ _ _ the company store.
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