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16 Tons
Calfee Jones
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Some people say a man is made outta mud
A poor man is made from muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
With mind that's weak and a back that's strong
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Well, you take sixteen tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
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Well I was born when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
And the boss man said "Well, a-bless my soul"
You dig sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
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When ya you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't and a lotta men died
One arm is iron, the other is steel
If the left don't get ya then the right one will
You dig sixteen tons and what do I get
Another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul
To the company store
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Oh, yeah
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