Sixteen Tons - Homer and Jethro Chords

_ _ _ [C#] _ _ [F#m] _ _ [A] _
[D] _ [F] [D] Some people say a man is [C#] made out of dirt, [F#] four-legged [D] breeches and a [G#m] humpback's jerk.
[F#m] Every man has his [G#] woman to make him tick, but only the miner has his pick.
[F#m] He loads sixteen [Dm] tons, [F] how do you [F#m] feel?
Too tired to work, too [C#] scared to steal.
[F#m] Aunt Peter, don't you [Bm] holler for me [N] today, cause I'm a-diggin' the other way.
[C#] _ _ _ [F#m] _ _
[D] _ [C#] [F#m] Uncle John was [D] a miner, he was long [F#m] and tall.
Chasing [D] after women [G#m] made him end [F#m] it all.
He could never catch them, [G#] though he [F#m] tried.
So old Uncle John laid down and died.
Sixteen tons, _ sixteen tons, _ [C#] [A] sixteen tons.
[Bm] _ [F#m] _ _
_ [F#m] I [A] was born one morning when [D] the sun didn't shine.
I remember my mama was [C#] a-goin' to [F#m] town.
The doctor looked [G#] down and said,
Oh my, I wonder whether he's a-gonna walk or [F#m] fly.
Sixteen tons, _ [Bm] sixteen tons, [F#m] _ sixteen [Bm] tons.
_ [F#m] _ _
[C#] _ [F#m] Well I've shoveled this [F] coal till my [C#] back is bent.
[F#m] My get up and go [Dm] has [F#m] got up and went.
My wife ran [G#] away with my friend Jim.
I don't miss her, but I do miss [F#m] him.
He loads [A] sixteen [Dm] tons, [C#] what do you [Bm] get?
[A] Slack in your pants and soaked with [C#] sweat.
[F#m] Tennessee [Bm] Ernie done made this [D#] song, but the beat maker sung the [F#] words all [G#] wrong.
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