You load 16 tons and whaddaya get??
another day older and deeper in dept
Saint Peter don'tcha call me 'Cause-
I can't go...I owe my soul to the Company
Store
Peace.
2007-10-17 07:35:52 · 11 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
that's about right another day older and deeper in debt
2007-10-17 10:01:50 · answer #1 · answered by johnny trash 5 · 1⤊ 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
2016-05-23 04:32:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 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!"
2007-10-17 08:15:57 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
A broken back and a lot of aching.
Keep the songs coming. Love them babe!
♥D
2007-10-17 13:37:37 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tennessee Ernie Ford...gotta luv 'em...
2007-10-17 09:10:25 · answer #5 · answered by Anglcake 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
ONe fist of Iron and the other of Steel ..... If the Right one don't getcha then the Left one Will
2007-10-17 07:39:26 · answer #6 · answered by Rocky The Fearless 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Tennessee Ernie Ford's song. My grampa played this song and he loved it.
2007-10-17 08:04:14 · answer #7 · answered by GreeneYankee 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
16 tons?? You get a back ache.
2007-10-17 07:41:23 · answer #8 · answered by Nunya 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
"I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin rain,
Lightenin' and Thunder are my middle name.
I was raised in the cane-break by an ol' mama lion.
Cain't no high-toned woman make me walk the line."
2007-10-17 07:43:42 · answer #9 · answered by wanda3s48 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
i was hoping for a raise (had this record years ago)
2007-10-17 08:08:12 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋