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16 Tons Lyrics


I was born one morning when the sun did't shine I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal and the straw-boss said well bless my soul -CH. you load 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--vs#2I was born one morning it was drizzling rain fighting and trouble are my middle names I was raised in the cane-break by an old mamma lion ain't no high tone woman can make me walk the line.CHO-VS3--If you see me coming you'd better step aside, alot of men did'nt and alot of men died I've got one fist of iron and the other of steel,if the right one don't get you then the left one will --CHO
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Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 – October 17, 1991) known professionally as Tennessee Ernie Ford, was an American country and gospel singer and radio and television host. Today, he is best remembered for his hit recording of "Sixteen Tons". Born in Bristol, Tennessee, to Clarence Thomas Ford and Maud Long, Ford began his radio career as an announcer at station WOPI in Bristol, leaving in 1939 to study classical music and voice at the Cincinnati Conservatory of Music. 1st Lieut. Ford served in World War II as the bombardier on a B-29 Superfortress flying missions over Japan.

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