Sixteen Tons - Della Mae/Avril Smith

作词：Merle Travis

作曲：Merle Travis

Some people say a man is made out of mud

A poor man's made out of muscle and blood

Muscle and blood and skin and bones

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

Saint Peter don't you call me

'Cause I can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one morning when the sun didn'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-a bless my soul

You load sixteen tons 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

I was born one morning it was drizzlin' rain

Fightin' and trouble are my middle name

I was raised in the park time spend

Old mama lion

That is mean as a dagen I'm gentel as a man

You load sixteen tons 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

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

If the right one don't getcha then the left one will

You load sixteen tons 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

You load sixteen tons 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

Yes I owe my soul to the company store

Yes I owe my soul to the company store