Sixteen Tons Chords by Tennessee Ernie Ford
Tempo:
71.7 bpm
Chords used:
B
F#
A
Bm
G#
Tuning:Standard Tuning (EADGBE)Capo:+0fret
Start Jamming...
[B]
Some [A#] people say a man is made out of mud, [A] a poor man's made out of muscle and blood,
[B] muscle and blood and skin [C#] and [B] bones, a mind that's weak and a back that's strong,
you load [A] sixteen tons, what [B] do you get?
Another day older and deeper in depth.
St.
Peter don't you call me cause I [C#] can't go, [B] I owe my soul to the company store.
I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine, I picked up my shovel [F#] and I walked
to the mine, I loaded [G] sixteen tons, a number [C#m] nine coal [B] and a straw ball said, well bless
my soul you load [D] sixteen tons, what do you [B] get?
[A] Another day older and deeper [B] in depth.
St.
Peter don't [Em] you call me cause I can't [Bm] go, I owe my soul to the company store.
[B] [E] I was born [F#] one morning it was drizzling rain, fighting and trouble are my middle name, I
[A] was raised in a cane break by an old mama [B] lying, can't go a high tone woman make me
walk the line, you load sixteen [F#] tons, what do you get?
Another day older [Bm] and deeper in
depth.
St.
Peter don't you call me cause I can't [B] go, I owe my soul to the company store.
[G#] If you see me coming better step aside, a lot of men didn't, a lot of men died, [B] one
fist of iron, [G] the other of steel, [B] if the right one don't get you then the left [G#] one will.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older [F#] and deeper in depth.
[G#] St.
Peter don't
you call me [Em] cause I can't go, [N]
I owe my soul to the company store.
[F#] [Bm]
Some [A#] people say a man is made out of mud, [A] a poor man's made out of muscle and blood,
[B] muscle and blood and skin [C#] and [B] bones, a mind that's weak and a back that's strong,
you load [A] sixteen tons, what [B] do you get?
Another day older and deeper in depth.
St.
Peter don't you call me cause I [C#] can't go, [B] I owe my soul to the company store.
I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine, I picked up my shovel [F#] and I walked
to the mine, I loaded [G] sixteen tons, a number [C#m] nine coal [B] and a straw ball said, well bless
my soul you load [D] sixteen tons, what do you [B] get?
[A] Another day older and deeper [B] in depth.
St.
Peter don't [Em] you call me cause I can't [Bm] go, I owe my soul to the company store.
[B] [E] I was born [F#] one morning it was drizzling rain, fighting and trouble are my middle name, I
[A] was raised in a cane break by an old mama [B] lying, can't go a high tone woman make me
walk the line, you load sixteen [F#] tons, what do you get?
Another day older [Bm] and deeper in
depth.
St.
Peter don't you call me cause I can't [B] go, I owe my soul to the company store.
[G#] If you see me coming better step aside, a lot of men didn't, a lot of men died, [B] one
fist of iron, [G] the other of steel, [B] if the right one don't get you then the left [G#] one will.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older [F#] and deeper in depth.
[G#] St.
Peter don't
you call me [Em] cause I can't go, [N]
I owe my soul to the company store.
[F#] [Bm]
Key:
B
F#
A
Bm
G#
B
F#
A
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ _
Some [A#] people say a man is made out of mud, [A] a poor man's made out of muscle and blood,
[B] muscle and blood and skin [C#] and [B] bones, a mind that's weak and a back that's strong,
you load [A] sixteen tons, what [B] do you get?
Another day older and deeper in depth.
St.
Peter don't you call me cause I [C#] can't go, [B] I owe my soul to the company store.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine, I picked up my shovel [F#] and I walked
to the mine, I loaded [G] sixteen tons, a number [C#m] nine coal [B] and a straw ball said, well bless
my soul you load [D] sixteen tons, what do you [B] get?
[A] Another day older and deeper [B] in depth.
St.
Peter don't [Em] you call me cause I can't [Bm] go, I owe my soul to the company store.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] I was born [F#] one morning it was drizzling rain, fighting and trouble are my middle name, I
[A] was raised in a cane break by an old mama [B] lying, can't go a high tone woman make me
walk the line, you load sixteen [F#] tons, what do you get?
Another day older [Bm] and deeper in
depth.
St.
Peter don't you call me cause I can't [B] go, I owe my soul to the company store.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] If you see me coming better step aside, a lot of men didn't, a lot of men died, [B] one
fist of iron, [G] the other of steel, [B] if the right one don't get you then the left [G#] one will.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older [F#] and deeper in depth.
[G#] St.
Peter don't
you call me [Em] cause I can't go, _ [N]
I owe my _ _ soul to _ _ the company store.
_ [F#] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
Some [A#] people say a man is made out of mud, [A] a poor man's made out of muscle and blood,
[B] muscle and blood and skin [C#] and [B] bones, a mind that's weak and a back that's strong,
you load [A] sixteen tons, what [B] do you get?
Another day older and deeper in depth.
St.
Peter don't you call me cause I [C#] can't go, [B] I owe my soul to the company store.
_ _ _ _ _ _ I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine, I picked up my shovel [F#] and I walked
to the mine, I loaded [G] sixteen tons, a number [C#m] nine coal [B] and a straw ball said, well bless
my soul you load [D] sixteen tons, what do you [B] get?
[A] Another day older and deeper [B] in depth.
St.
Peter don't [Em] you call me cause I can't [Bm] go, I owe my soul to the company store.
_ _ _ [B] _ _ _ [E] I was born [F#] one morning it was drizzling rain, fighting and trouble are my middle name, I
[A] was raised in a cane break by an old mama [B] lying, can't go a high tone woman make me
walk the line, you load sixteen [F#] tons, what do you get?
Another day older [Bm] and deeper in
depth.
St.
Peter don't you call me cause I can't [B] go, I owe my soul to the company store.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _
[G#] If you see me coming better step aside, a lot of men didn't, a lot of men died, [B] one
fist of iron, [G] the other of steel, [B] if the right one don't get you then the left [G#] one will.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older [F#] and deeper in depth.
[G#] St.
Peter don't
you call me [Em] cause I can't go, _ [N]
I owe my _ _ soul to _ _ the company store.
_ [F#] _ _ [Bm] _ _ _ _ _
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