Sixteen Tons

Sixteens tons
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 Some people say a man is made out of mud
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 A poor man's made out of mud and muscle and blood
 Muscle and blood and skin and bones
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 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
 
 St. peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
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 I owe my soul to the company store
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 I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
 I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
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 I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
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 And the strawboss said, "well, bless my soul!"
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 I was born one mornin', it was drizllin' rain
 Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
 I was raised in the cane break by an ol' mama lion
 Cain't no high-tone woman make me walk the line
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 If you see me comin' better step aside
 A lot of men didn't, a lot of men died
 One fist of iron, the other of steel
 And if the right one don't get you, then the left one will
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