{t:Sixteen Tons}
{st:Tennesse Ernie Ford (Merle Travis, 1946)}
{sot}
4/4 | d - D u d - D u |
      1   2 & 3   4 &
{eot}

{c:Intro}
[/] [Am] [/] [E7] [Am] [/] [Am] 


Some [/] [Am] people say a man is [/] [F] made out of [E7] mud
A [/] [Am] poor man’s made out of [/] [F] muscle and [E7] blood [/]
[/] [Am] Muscle and blood and [/] [Dm] skin and bones
A [/] [Am] mind that’s weak and a [/] back that’s [E7] strong


{soc}
You load [/] [Am] sixteen tons [/] [F] what do you [E7] get?
A- [/] [Am] nother dayolder and [/] [F] deeper in [E7] debt
Saint [/] [Am] Peter, don’t you call me ‘cause [/] [Dm] I can’t go
I [/] [Am↓] owe my soul to the [/] company store [/] 
[/] [Am] [/] [E7] [Am] [/] [Am] 
{eoc}


I was [/] [Am] born one morning when the [/] [F] sun didn’t [E7] shine
I [/] [Am] picked up my shovel and I [/] [F] walked to the [E7] mine
I loaded [/] [Am] sixteen tons of [/] [Dm] number nine coal
And the [/] [Am] straw boss said, “Well, a-bless my [/] [E7] soul!”


{soc}
You load [/] [Am] sixteen tons [/] [F] what do you [E7] get?
A- [/] [Am] nother day older and [/] [F] deeper in [E7] debt
Saint [/] [Am] Peter, don’t you call me ‘cause [/] [Dm] I can’t go
I [/] [Am↓] owe my soul to the [/] [E7↓] company [Am↓] store [/] 
[/] [Am] [/] [E7] [Am] [/] [Am] 
{eoc}


I was [/] [Am] born one mornin’ it was [/] [F] drizzlin’ [E7] rain [/] 
[/] [Am] Fightin’ and trouble are [/] [F] my middle [E7] name
I was [/] [Am] raised in the canebreak by an [/] [Dm] old mamma lion
Cain’t no [/] [Am] high-toned woman make me [/] [E7] walk the line


{soc}
You load [/] [Am] sixteen tons [/] [F] what do you [E7] get?
A- [/] [Am] nother day older and [/] [F] deeper in [E7] debt
Saint [/] [Am] Peter, don’t you call me ‘cause [/] [Dm] I can’t go
I [/] [Am↓] owe my soul to the [/] [E7↓] company [Am↓] store [/] 
[/] [Am] [/] [E7] [Am] [/] [Am] 
{eoc}


If you [/] [Am] see me comin’ better [/] [F] step a-[E7] side
A [/] [Am] lot of men didn’t, a [/] [F] lot of men [E7] died
[/] [Am] One fist of iron, the [/] [Dm] other of steel
If the [/] [Am] right one don’t get you then the [/] [E7] left one will


{soc}
You load [/] [Am] sixteen tons [/] [F] what do you [E7] get?
A- [/] [Am] nother day older and [/] [F] deeper in [E7] debt
Saint [/] [Am] Peter, don’t you call me ‘cause [/] [Dm] I can’t go
I [/] [Am↓] owe my soul to the [/] [E7↓] company [Am↓] store [/] 
[/] [Am] [/] [E7] [Am] [/] [Am] 
{eoc}


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