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                      B           B7    
A mind that's aweak and a back that's strong
         B7                          
You load sixteen tons what do you get
                      Ab7           
Another day older and deeper in debt
B7                 A7             G         
St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
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
Bm      B7            Ab7           
Another day older and deeper in debt
A7                                          
St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
Bm    Bm7 B7                        B
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
B7                                  
Another day older and deeper in debt
Bm                         G                
St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
Bm                   B            
I owe my soul to the company store


[Verse]
              B                       
If you see me comin' better step aside
E7          A7                     
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
St Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go


[Chorus]
                             Em    Gb7 Bm
I owe my soul to the company store ■   ■