''best answer'' goes to the person who can give me the lyrics to the chorus and AT LEAST one complete verse of this classic song. if several people have one verse, the answerer with the most lyrics (the real ones, not the ones you make up), the song title, and the name of the man who sang it will win. take a break from all the bickering for a while, guys.
2007-07-17 22:04:57 · 11 answers · asked by That Guy Drew 6 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
it's considered cheating when you google stuff... i won't mention any names. you know who you are.
2007-07-17 22:18:47 · update #1
See me coming better step aside
A lot of men didn't and a lot of men died
One fist is Iron and the other is steel
And if the right one don't get ya then the other one will
Ya load sixteen tons and what do ya get?
One day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don't call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
2007-07-17 22:10:29 · answer #1 · answered by Prop Forward 3 · 2⤊ 0⤋
Merle Travis (1946)
Tennessee Ernie Ford (1955)
CHORUS:
You load sixteen tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go,
l owe my soul to the company store.
(SPOKEN) Yessir, there's a-many a Kentucky coal miner that pretty near owes his soul to the company store. He gets so far in debt to the coal company he's a-workin' fer that he goes on fer years without being paid one red cent in real honest-to-goodness money. But he can always go to the company store and draw flickers or scrip -- you know, that's little brass coins that you can't spend nowhere only at the company store. So they add that against his account and every day he gets a little farther in debt. (CHUCKLE) That sounds pretty bad, but even that's got a brighter side to it.
ALTERNATE LYRICS (SPOKEN)
Down in southwest Kentucky where I was born and raised up, they have a little sayin' around the coal mines that they get so far in debt that they owe their soul to the company store. That's almost a fact because a lot of boys works [sic] for years and never really sees [sic] any United States money -- it's all coal miner's money they call flickers or scrip. Here's a little song about sixteen tons and you'll notice that the line in there says he owes his soul to the company store.
Now, some people say a man's made out of mud,
But a poor man's made out of muscle and blood,
Muscle and blood, skin and bones,
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong.
CHORUS
Well, I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine.
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mines.
I loaded sixteen tons of Number Nine coal,
And the straw-boss hollered, "Well, bless my soul.''
CHORUS
Well, I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain.
Fightin' and trouble is my middle name.
I was raised in the bottoms by a mama hound.
I'm mean as a dog, but I'm as gentle as a lamb.
ALTERNATE LYRICS, LAST TWO LINES:
I was raised in a cane-brake by a big mama lion
Cain't no high tone woman break this heart of mine.
WeIl, if you see me a-comin' you better step aside.
A lotta men didn't and a lotta men died.
I got a fist of iron, and a fist of steel.
If the right one don't get you, then the left one will.
CHORUS
2007-07-17 22:10:56 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 1⤋
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2007-07-18 19:22:07 · answer #3 · answered by thiru 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I used to load trucks one summer, on the night shift... my buddies and I would play this song on the docks... "Whaddya some type o' wise guy?" "If I was a wise guy, I wouldn't be no longshoreman for thirty years... I'm poorer now than when I started!"
2016-05-21 16:14:24 · answer #4 · answered by cara 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
All I can recall without looking it up is this part of the chorus:
"Another day older and deeper in debt."
2007-07-18 10:06:58 · answer #5 · answered by Michael B - Prop. 8 Repealed! 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
another day older and deeper in debt saint peter don't cha call me because i can't go i owe my soul to the company store....
2007-07-17 22:09:29 · answer #6 · answered by megg/reese runt 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Another day older and deeper in debt....
And that is all I can remember.
2007-07-17 22:28:25 · answer #7 · answered by Serena 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
another day older & deeper in debt. st peter don't cha call me cuz i can't gooooooooo - i owe-ooh-o-owe to the company store.
sorry that's all i can remember at this tme - need more coffee....
now that i've read the other asnwers i'm smacking me head going - duh ; )
good job propforward!!
2007-07-17 22:51:47 · answer #8 · answered by Marysia 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
nother day older an deeper in dept
all i know
2007-07-17 22:11:48 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
a back thats out LOL
another day older
2007-07-17 22:08:29 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋