Sixteen Tons Chords by Jerry Reed

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_ _ [Ebm] _ _ [B] _ _
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_ Now some people say a [Db] man is made out of [Abm] mud, old man's [Eb] made out of muscle and blood, muscle
and [Db] blood and skin and [Eb] bone, a mind that's weak and a back that's [Abm] strong, you're loaded
sixteen [Db] times, what do you [Ab] get?
Another [Eb] day older and more in [Ab] depth, St.
Peter don't [Db] call me cause I can't go, [Eb] I owe my soul
to the company store, _
_ _ [Abm] _ _ I owe my soul to the company [B] store.
[Ab] Well I was born one [Db] morning when the sun didn't [Ab] shine, I tell my [Eb] soul I walked to the [Ab] mine
loaded sixteen [Db] times, a number nine [Abm] crow, the straw boss [Db] there son, left my [Abm] throat and
loaded sixteen [Db] times, what do you [Abm] get?
You get another [Eb] day older and more in [Ab] depth, St.
Peter don't [Db] call me cause I can't go,
[Eb] I owe my soul to the company store, I owe my [Ebm] soul to the company [Abm] store. _
[Db] _ _ [Ab] _ _ [F] _ _
[Db] _ _ _ _ _ _
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_ _ _ Well I was born one [Db] morning it was drizzling rain, [Ab] fighting that [Eb] trouble that's my middle
[Ab] name, I was raised in the [Db] woods by a mama lion, [Ab] no high tone woman make me walk the
line, [Abm] you're loaded sixteen [Db] times, what do you get?
[Abm] Another day [Eb] older and more in depth, St.
Peter don't [Db] call me cause I can't go, [Eb] I owe my soul
to the company store, I owe my soul [Abm] to the company [B] store, [Ab] to the company store.
Well you see me [Db] coming better step aside, [Abm] a lot of men dead, [Eb] a lot of men [Ab] die, one fist
of [Db] iron and the other one steel, [Eb] hit the raven door, get your son a level wheel, I'm loaded
sixteen [Db] times, what do you get?
[Abm] Another day [Eb] older and more in depth, St.
Peter don't [Db] call me cause I can't go, [Eb] I owe my soul
to the company store, _ _ _
[Abm] _ yeah.
_ Sixteen [Db] times, I owe my soul, [Abm] sixteen [Db] times, to the company store, [Abm] sixteen [Db] times, I owe
my soul, [Abm] sixteen times.
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