[ti:Sixteen Tons]
[ar:Marty Stuart]
[al:Saturday Night Shuffle: A Celebration Of Merle Travis The Man & His Music]
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[00:00.00]Sixteen Tons - Marty Stuarty/Josh Graves/Thom Bresh/John Hartford/Vassar Clements
[00:09.54]Some people say a man is made outta mud
[00:14.06]A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
[00:17.61]Muscle and blood and skin and bones
[00:20.72]A mind that's a weak and a back that's strong
[00:23.96]You load sixteen tons what do you get
[00:27.88]Another day older and deeper in debt
[00:31.06]Saint peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
[00:34.74]I owe my soul to the company store
[00:47.40]I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
[00:51.24]Picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
[00:54.45]I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
[00:57.93]The straw boss said well a bless my soul
[01:00.96]You load sixteen tons what do you get
[01:04.88]Another day older and deeper in debt
[01:07.78]Saint peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
[01:11.50]I owe my soul to the company store
[01:24.31]I was born one mornin' it was drizzlin' rain
[01:28.16]Fightin' and trouble is my middle name
[01:31.47]Raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion
[01:34.46]Cain't no a high-toned woman make me to the line
[01:38.08]You load sixteen tons what do you get
[01:41.94]Another day older and deeper in debt
[01:44.92]Saint peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
[01:48.73]I owe my soul to the company store
[02:12.46]If you see me comin' you better step aside
[02:15.83]You see a lotta men didn't and a lotta men died
[02:19.60]One fist of iron the other of steel
[02:22.79]If the right one don't a get you
[02:24.47]Then the left one will
[02:26.02]You load sixteen tons what do you get
[02:29.91]Another day older and deeper in debt
[02:33.05]Saint peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
[02:39.58]Cause I owe my soul to the company store