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Sixteen Tons / Chain Gang - Guy Stroman

Some people say a man is made out of mud

A poor mans made out of muscle and blood

Muscle and blood and skin and bones

A mind thats weak and a back thats strong

You load sixteen tons and what do you get

Another day older and deeper in debt

Say peter don't you call me cus 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 my shovel and i walked to the mine

I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal

And the store boy say well bless my soul

You load sixteen tons and what do you get

Another day older and deeper in debt

Say peter don't you call me cus i can't go

I owe my soul to the company store

Huh hah huh

I can hear them saying

Huh hah huh hah

Well don't you know

That's the sound of the men

Working on the chain gang

That's the sound of the men

Working on the chain gang

All day long they work so hard

To the sun is going down

Working on the highways and byways

And wearing wearing a crown

You hear their moaning their lives away

Then you hear somebody say

Well don't you know

That's the sound of the men

Working on the chain gang

That's the sound of the men

Working on the chain gang

I can hear them saying

Huh my my my

My my

Work is so hard

Well give me water

Huh i'm so thirsty

Huh my work is so hard

If you see me coming better step aside

A lot of men didn't

A lot of men died

I got a one fist of iron the other steel

If the right don't get ya then the left one will

You load sixteen tons and what do you get

Another day older and deeper in debt

Say peter don't you call me cus i can't go

I owe my soul to the company store