Sixteen Tons - Merle Travis: testi di canzoni, video musicali e concerti

Sixteen Tons

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Sixteen Tons è stato pubblicato il 9 giugno 1947 da Capitol Nashville come parte dell'album Folk Songs of the Hills

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Merle Travis

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Merle Travis

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Testi

[Verse 1]

You load 16 tons and what do you get?

You get another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

[Verse 2]

Now some people say a man's made out of mud

But a poor man's made out of muscle and blood

A-muscle and blood, skin and bones

A mind that's weak and a back that's strong

[Verse 3]

You load 16 tons and what do you get?

Another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

[Verse 4]

Well I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine

I picked up the shovel and I walked to the mine

Loaded 16 tons of number 9 coal

And the straw boss a-hollered, "Well, bless my soul"

[Verse 5]

You load 16 tons and what do you get?

You get another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

[Verse 6]

Well I was born one morning, it was drizzlin' rain

Fightin' and trouble are my middle name

I was raised in the bottoms by a mama hound

I'm mean as a dog but I'm as gentle as a lamb

[Verse 7]

You load 16 tons and what do you get?

You get another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

[Verse 8]

Well if you see me coming, you'd better step aside

A lot of men didn't and a lot of men died

I got a fist of iron and a fist of steel

If the right don't get you then the left one will

[Verse 9]

You load 16 tons and what do you get?

You get another day older and deeper in debt

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

Written by: Merle Travis

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