Chords for Isaac Guillory: Sixteen Tons

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_ _ [Dm] I was born one [D] morning when the sun didn't shine, I picked up a shovel and a head with
a mine, I had sixteen tons, a number [A] nine bull and a star ball collar, sixteen [D] _ tons, _ _
[G] _ [Am] my dad said, Peter don't you call me cause I [A] can't go, I hold my soul to the pistol.
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_ _ _ [D] _ _ [Dm] Well he came in the summer and it was drizzling and raining, he was [F] riding on a truck, [G] he
was my middle name, raised on a [Gm] cane, break by an old mama, now [A] I ain't no high balloon
woman, make me walk the old line with those [D] sixteen tons, what he gets.
[C] Another day I'll get some [D] deeper and death ain't beating, don't you call [G] me now cause
I can't go, [A] I hold my soul to the pistol. _ _ _
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_ _ Take that piece of card out of your pocket, [D] look on the front and print on the back, it
says company store right at the bottom.
_ Well some men made out of muscle and blood, other men made out of skin and bone, muscle
and blood and [Gm] skin and [Am] bone, and a mine that's weak and a back that's strong, but loads sixteen
[D] tons and what do you get, [G] another day older and [D] deeper and dead, say Peter don't you
call me cause I [A] can't go.
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_ _ But if you see [D] me come you better step aside, [F] a lot of men live and [D] a lot of men die, one
pulls the vine and the other is [A] steel, never I will don't get you, never that one [D] will
get you, loads sixteen tons and what do you get, [F] another day older and [D] dead, say Peter
don't you call me cause I can't go, [A] I hold my soul to the pistol.
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[G] _ _ Peter don't you call me now cause I can't [Gm] go, [Am] cause I [Bb] hold my [G] soul _ [Bb] _ to [A] _ _ the pistol.
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