Sixteen Tons Chords by Merle Travis

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_ _ [Bm] _ _ [C] _ _ [Em] Some people say a [C] man is made out [B] of mud, but a poor man is [G] made [C] out of muscle [B] and blood.
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Muscle [G] and blood [Am] and skin and bones.
[Em] With a mind that's weak and a back that's strong, he loads sixteen tons.
[C] And what [B] do you get?
You [Em] get another day older [C] and deeper [C#] in debt.
Saint [Em] Peter, don't you call me [Am] cause I can't go.
[Em] I owe my soul to the [E] company store.
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_ _ _ _ _ _ I was born one [D] morning when the sun [B] didn't shine.
I picked [D] up my shovel and I walked to the [B] mine.
I loaded [G] sixteen tons [Am] of number nine coal.
[Em] And the straw [F] boss said, well [Em] bless my soul, he loaded sixteen tons.
[G] [C] And what do you get?
[B] You get another [G] day older and deeper [B] in debt.
[Em] Saint Peter, don't you call me [Am] cause I can't go.
[Em] I owe my soul to the [A#] company store.
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_ _ _ _ _ If you see me coming [C] better, step [B] aside.
A lot of [D] men didn't [C] and a lot of men [B] died.
One fist [G] of iron [Am] and the other one of steel.
If [Em] the right one don't get you, then the left one will.
You load sixteen tons.
[C] What [B] do you get?
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Another [D] day older [C] and deeper [B] in debt.
[Em] Saint Peter, don't you call me [Am] cause I can't go.
[Em] I owe my soul to the company store. _ _
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_ [Em] _ _ _ _ I was born [D] one morning, it [C] was drizzling [B] rain. _
Lightning [D] and trouble are [C] my little name.
[B] Well, I [Em] was raised in a cane break [Am] by an old mama lion.
[Em] Ain't no high tone woman make me walk the line.
You load sixteen tons.
[C] What do you [E] get?
You get another day [C] older and deeper in [B] debt.
[Em] Saint Peter, don't you call me cause [Am] I can't go.
[Em] I owe my soul [C#] to the company store.
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