Chords for Jeff Beck and ZZ Top - Ernie Ford's SIXTEEN TONS

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_ _ _ _ _ _ [D] Some people say a man is made out of mud, a woman is made out of muscle and blood, muscle
and [E] blood and skin and [Dm] bones.
I'm [B] nine [F#m] last week and I'm back that's [B] long enough, sixteen [Bm] does.
Why do you care that another [B] day goes?
I am deeper in that.
Saint Peter [G#] don't you call [E] me cause I [B] can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
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[D] I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine.
I picked up a shovel and I walked to the mine.
I loaded sixteen [Bm] tons.
I'm number nine [D] cold can of straw.
I said little miss of my [B] soul, you know sixteen tons.
[Bm] Why do you care that another day [B] goes?
I am deeper in that.
Saint Peter don't you [E] call me cause I can't [Bm] go.
I owe my [B] soul to the company store.
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I [A] was [F#m] born one morning it was drizzling rain.
Five man [D#] trouble on my middle name.
I was raising [E] gang breaks.
I know my [G] line, hell [B] I know all the things you [F#m] want to [B] like.
Sixteen [Bm] tons, why do you care that another day [B] goes?
I am deeper in that.
Saint Peter don't you call [E] me cause I [Bm] can't go.
I owe my soul [B] to the company store.
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_ _ If you [D] see me come and let us step aside.
A lot of men dead and a lot of men die.
One fits of [E] iron and the other [G] looks steel.
If the right one [B] long lives then the left [Bm] one will.
Sixteen tons, why do you care that another day goes?
I [A] am deeper [B] in that.
[A] Saint Peter [G#] don't you call me [E] cause I can't go.
[B] I owe my soul to the [C#m] company [B] store.
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