Sixteen tons(Cavaco chords)

	        
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 Am                      F         E  
Some people say a man is made outta mud  
 Am                     F          E  
A poor man's made outta muscle an' blood  
Am                   F        Dm  
Muscle an' blood an' skin an' bone  
Am                                  E7 
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong  

  
Am                        F          E  
You load sixteen tons an' what do ya get?  
Am                    F         E  
Another day older an' deeper in debt  
Am                                  F       Dm  
Saint Peter don't ya call me 'cause I can't go  
Am                   E       Am  
I owe my soul to the company store  
  

Am                              F          E  
I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine  
Am                        F           E  
Picked up my shovel and I went to the mine  
Am                      F          Dm  
Loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal  
Am                         E7 
The strawboss said, 'Well, Bless my soul!'  

Am                             F        E  
I was born one morning it was drizzlin' rain  
Am                       F         E  
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name  
Am                            F        Dm  
Raised in the canebreak by an old mama lion  
Am                               E7 
Ain't no high-tone woman make me walk the line  

Am                            F      E  
If ya see me coming ya better step aside  
Am                       F         E  
A lotta men didn't and a lotta men died  
Am                             F        Dm  
With one fist of iron an' the other of steel  
Am                                     E7 
If the right one don't get ya then the left one will.  
 

	        

Written by Merle Travis