Sixteen Tons Chords by Tennessee Ernie Ford

[Start]

[Verse]
B                                        
■ Some people say a man is made outta mud
                        Ab7             
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
           A7        G             
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
  Bm                                        
A mind that's aweak and a back that's strong
         Bm                          
You load sixteen tons what do you get
Bm                                  
Another day older and deeper in debt
                   A7             G       A7
St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
Bm    Bm7                    B    
I owe my soul to the company store
      B                                         
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
  B                                           
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
         B                               
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
        B7                                 
And the straw boss said Well abless my soul
                      Ab7            
You load sixteen tons what do you get
Ab7                                 
Another day older and deeper in debt
A7                                          
St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
Bm                                
I owe my soul to the company store
                              B7            
I was born one mornin' it was drizzlin' rain
                                   Ab7 
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
                                 A7              
I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion
         A7                                    
Can't no high toned woman make me walk the line


[Chorus]
                 B7                  
You load sixteen tons what do you get
Ab7     B7                          
Another day older and deeper in debt
   B7                                       
St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
Bm                           B     Bm B
I owe my soul to the company store ■  ■


[Verse]
              B                       
If you see me comin' better step aside
        B7                         
A lotta men didn't a lotta men died
            A7                     
One fist of iron the other of steel
                       B7     
If the right one don't get you
                  B7  
Then the left one will
                 Bm                  
You load sixteen tons what do you get
                                Gb  
Another day older and deeper in debt
                   Bm      Em             N.C.
St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go  
N.C.                              
I owe my soul to the company store


[Chorus]
Em Bm Gb7 Bm
■  ■  ■   ■ 


[End]