Sixteen Tons Chords by Tennessee Ernie Ford

_ _ _ _ [A#] _ _ [B] _ _
_ _ _ _ _ _ Some people say a man is made out of mud, a [A] poor man's made out of [C] muscle and blood,
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muscle and blood [G] and skin [C#m] and bones, [B] a mind that's weak and a back that's strong.
You load [A] sixteen tons, [G#] what do you [Bm] get?
Another day older [G#m] and deaf.
[B] St.
Peter, don't you call [C#] me cause I can't go, [Bm] I owe my soul to the company store.
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_ I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine, I [A] picked up my [G#] shovel and I walked
to the mine, [B] I loaded [Am] sixteen tons, [G] a number [C#m] nine coal and [B] a straw ball said, well bless
my soul, you load [A] sixteen tons, [G#] what do you [B] get?
[A] Another day [G#m] older and deaf.
[Bm]
St.
Peter, don't you call me [F#] cause I [C#m] can't go, [B] I owe my [F#] soul to the company [Bm] store.
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_ _ _ _ _ I was born one morning, it was drizzling rain, [Am] fighting and [G#m] trouble are my middle name, [B] I
was raised in [Am] a cane break [Em] by an old mama [C#m] lying, can't [B] no high tone woman make me walk
the line, you load sixteen tons, what do [F#] you get?
Another day [G#] older and [Bm] deeper in depth.
St.
Peter, don't you call [G] me cause I [C#] can't go, [B] I owe my soul to the company store. _ _ _ _
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_ _ [F#] _ If you see me coming, better step aside, a lot [A] of men didn't, [G#] a lot of men [B] died, one
[A] 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?
[D] Another day older and [F#] deeper in depth.
St.
Peter, [G#] don't you call me [Em] cause I can't go, _ _ [Bm] _ _
_ I owe _ _ _ _ _ my _ _ soul _ _ _ to _ _ _ _ _ the company _ store. _
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