Skip to content
Lyric
Dive
Public playlists
My playlists
Search
Sign in
16 Tons
The Redskins
Popularity ยท Low
+
๐ฌ๐ง English ยท Original
0
0
YouTube
Searching YouTube...
Lyrics
Original
Translation
Bilingual
Some people say a man is made out of mud
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bone
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong
You load 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
I was born one morning 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
The store boss said, "Well, bless my soul"
You load 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
ย
I was born one morning, it was drizzling rain
Fighting and trouble is my middle name
I was raised in a canebrake by an old mama lion
No high-toned woman's gonna try my style
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
ย
I owe my soul
I owe my soul, I owe my soul
You load sixteen tons
You load sixteen tons
What do you get? Nothing
If you see me coming, better step aside
A lot of men didn't, a lot of men died
I got one fist of iron, another of steel
If the right one doesn't get you then the left one will
Just one thing I will ask of you
Do they own your ass? Yes, they surely do
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
ย