Chords for Jalan Crossland - Sixteen Tons

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_ _ And one you've [Em] heard before, so you don't have to listen as hard to know what's [Gm] going on. _ _ _ _
[N] Here's an old Tennessee Ernie Ford, I think. _ _
_ _ _ [Gm] _ Merle Travis may have wrote it, anyway.
A song [Em] that still holds relevance today, I think.
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[F] Some folks [Cm] say a man's [D] made out of mud.
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Poor [F] boy's made out of [Am] muscle and [G] blood.
[C] Muscle and blood.
[Eb] Skin and bone.
[Gb] A man [C] that's weak and [G] a back [C] that's strong.
_ [Gm] _ [F] Sixteen ton, _ [Eb] [D] what do you get?
_ [F] Another day [Eb] older and [D] deeper in bed.
St.
[Gm] Peter, don't you call me, [Eb] cause I can't [Gm] go.
I hold my soul [G] to the company store.
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[Gm] glass on Monday, [C] Sunday [Dm] _
[G] child.
[C] Picked up a shovel [Eb] and walked to [G] mine.
Loaded sixteen [F] ton, [Eb] a number nine coal [Gm] in the straw [Gb] bars.
Hell [F] will I [G] am, my soul, I'm sixteen [Gm] ton.
[Eb] What do you get?
[Gm] Another [F] day [Eb] older and deeper in [Gm] bed.
St.
[F] Peter, don't you call [Eb] me, cause I can't go.
[Gb] I [A] hold my soul to [G] the company store.
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_ [Eb] _ _ [Dm] _ [G] You see [C] me coming, you [Eb] better step aside.
[G] Another man didn't [Eb] die, [D] another man [G] died.
Got a fist of iron, [Eb] another one's stealing [Gm] it.
The right one don't get you, then the left one will.
[G] You're over [F] sixteen [Eb] ton, what do you get?
[G] Another day [Eb] older and deeper in bed.
[G] St.
Peter, don't you call me, cause [Eb] I can't [Gm] go.
I [Gb] hold my [Dm] soul to the [G] company store.
[F] [Gm] I hold _ my soul _ [A] to the company [Dm] _ store.
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