Sixteen Tons Chords by Johnny Cash

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Some people say a man is made out of mud, a poor man's made out of muscle and blood, muscle and blood [Dm] and skin and [Am] bone.
A man that's weak and a [G] back that's [Am] strong, he loads sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day [F#m] older and [Am] deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you [Dm] call me cause I can't [Am] go, [F#m] I owe my soul to the company store.
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_ [C] _ [F#] _ [Am] _ _ [C] _ [F#] [Am] I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine, I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine.
I loaded sixteen [D] tons of number nine [Am] coal and a [G#] straw ball set.
Well, it blessed my soul, [Am] it loaded sixteen [F#] tons, and what do you [Am] get?
Another day [F#] older and [Am] deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't [Dm] you call me cause I can't [A] go, I owe my soul to the company store.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I was born one morning, it was drizzling rain, fighting and trouble on my middle name.
Raised in a cane [Dm] break by an old mama lion, [Am] ain't no high tone woman making me walk the line.
It loaded sixteen [F#] tons, and [Am] what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you [Dm] call me cause I can't [Am] go, I owe my soul to the company store.
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_ _ _ _ _ [C] _ [F#] [Am] If you see me coming, better step aside.
A lot of men didn't and a lot of men died.
One fist of iron [Dm] and the other of steel.
[Am] If the [G#m] right one don't get [C] you, then the left one will.
[Am] It loaded sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day [F#m] older and [Am] deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you [Dm] call me cause I can't go, _ I [E] owe my soul to [A] the company store.
Company store. _
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