Chords for MERLE TRAVIS - Sixteen Tons

Tempo:
70.7 bpm
Chords used:

Em

Am

C#

B

C

Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
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MERLE TRAVIS - Sixteen Tons chords
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You know, anybody can write a song.
I've tried it, you've tried it.
But few people can write a hit song.
Also, few people recognize a hit once they've heard it.
Many years ago, a song was written and nobody proclaimed it a hit until a number of years later.
Then, the dam broke.
The whole world recognized it immediately.
Here is the composer to sing it, Merle Travis and the Immortal, 16 Ton.
[Em]
[C]
[Em] [Am] [Bm]
[Em]
Don't you call me cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company so.
[C#] Well, I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine.
I picked up a shovel and I walked to the mine.
I loaded 16 [Am] tons of number 9 coal.
[Em] And the straw ball said, well, bless my soul, he loaded 16 tons.
And what he'd get another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call [Am] me cause I can't go.
[B] I owe my soul to the company so.
[Em]
Well, I was born one morning drizzling [B] rain.
Lightning [G] and trouble on my middle name.
[Em] Raised in a cane break by an old mama lion.
Ain't no high-toned woman make me walk the line.
You load 16 tons and what do you get?
You get another day older, deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me [Am] cause I can't go.
[Em] I owe my soul to the company so.
[C#] [E] Well, if you see me coming, you better step aside.
A lot of men didn't and a lot of men.
[Em] One fist of [Am] iron and the other one of steel.
[Em] If the right one don't get you, then the left one will.
You load 16 tons and what do you get?
You get another day older, deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me [Am] cause I can't go.
[Em] I owe my soul to the company so.
[C#] [N]
Key:  
Em
121
Am
2311
C#
12341114
B
12341112
C
3211
Em
121
Am
2311
C#
12341114
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You know, anybody can write a song.
I've tried it, you've tried it.
But few people can write a hit song.
Also, few people recognize a hit once they've heard it.
Many years ago, a song was written and nobody proclaimed it a hit until a number of years later.
Then, the dam broke.
The whole world recognized it immediately.
Here is the composer to sing it, Merle Travis and the Immortal, 16 Ton. _
[Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
_ _ [C] _ _ _ _ _ _
[Em] _ _ [Am] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _
_ [Em] _ _ _ _ _ _ _
Don't you call me cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company so.
_ _ _ _ [C#] _ Well, I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine.
I picked up a shovel and I walked to the mine.
I loaded 16 [Am] tons of number 9 coal.
[Em] And the straw ball said, well, bless my soul, he loaded 16 tons.
And what he'd get another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call [Am] me cause I can't go.
[B] I owe my soul to the company so.
[Em] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ Well, I was born one morning drizzling [B] rain.
Lightning [G] and trouble on my middle name.
[Em] Raised in a cane break by an old mama lion.
Ain't no high-toned woman make me walk the line.
You load 16 tons and what do you get?
You get another day older, deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me [Am] cause I can't go.
[Em] I owe my soul to the company so. _ _
_ _ [C#] _ _ _ [E] Well, if you see me coming, you better step aside.
A lot of men didn't and a lot of men.
[Em] One fist of [Am] iron and the other one of steel.
[Em] If the right one don't get you, then the left one will.
You load 16 tons and what do you get?
You get another day older, deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me [Am] cause I can't go.
[Em] I owe my soul to the company so. _ _
_ [C#] _ _ _ [N] _ _ _ _

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