Chords for Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons (Live)

little thing.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ Some people say a man is made out of [G] mud.
Old man's made out [Bb] of muscle and blood.
Muscle and [Ebm] blood and skin and bone.
A mind that's [N] weak, a back that's [Bbm] strong.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and [F] deeper in debt.
[Bbm] St.
Peter don't you call [Ebm] me cause I can't go.
[Bbm] I owe my soul to the company store.
_ _ _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [F] I was born one morning and the sun didn't shine.
Picked up my shovel, I walked to the mine.
I loaded sixteen tons, [Ebm] a number nine coal.
The straw boss said, well [Bbm] bless my soul, you load sixteen tons.
What do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St.
Peter don't you call [Ebm] me cause I can't go.
[Bbm] I owe my soul to the company store.
_ _ [A] _ [Bb] _ _ _
_ [A] I was born one morning, it was drizzling rain.
[Ab] Fighting and trouble [F] are my middle name.
Raised in the [Ebm] cane break by an old mama [Cm] lying.
No high tone woman make me [Bbm] walk the line.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper [F] in debt.
St.
[Bbm] Peter don't you call me [Ebm] cause I can't go.
[Bbm] I owe my soul to the company store.
_ _ [Bb] _ _ _ _
_ [E] _ If you see me coming better step aside.
A [Ab] lot of men didn't, a lot of men died.
[Bb] One fist of iron, the other of steel.
[Bbm] The right one don't get you, then the left one will.
You load sixteen tons, what do you get?
Another day older and [F] deeper in debt.
St.
Peter don't you call [Ebm] me cause I can't go. _ _
_ [Bb] I owe my _ _ _ soul _ _ to the company store.
I [Bbm] owe my soul to [C] the company store.
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