You load sixteen tons and what do you get another day older and deeper in debt. good song and I know what the lyrics mean, but do you think there was a hidden meaning to them?
2007-11-29 20:51:57 · 6 answers · asked by Lazrus 6 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Polls & Surveys
Check out:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixteen_Tons
I even recall listening to Tennessee Ernie Ford himself talk about the meaning of the song on his television show way back in the Sixties. (Have to pause here momentarily to ruminate on how old I'm getting).
It's a good song, but its somewhat depressing lyrics make me happy I went to college and became a teechir...teaacir ....er....teacher so I could stay out of the mines!
My family actually came to this good ol' USA to help open some of the coal mines out west, so this song makes me think, and not too many things can make me do that! :-)
2007-12-03 08:53:24 · answer #1 · answered by Kesokram 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
*puts on glasses and begins her intellectual analysis of said song*
It is my conclusion that the lyrics are being sung by a pimp. He has sixteen prostitutes working the streets for him and no matter how hard he works them to the bone, he still comes up deep.... in debt. Perhaps he should consider a more lucrative profession such as....... hotel clerk. Yes.... he should sleep on that one.
2007-12-02 22:32:26 · answer #2 · answered by Marianne not Ginger™ 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah, there is a hidden meaning & I think it remains hidden to this very day*
2007-11-29 23:19:31 · answer #3 · answered by Me 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I think it means Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go,
I owe my soul to the company store.
Poor guy.
2007-11-30 19:01:12 · answer #4 · answered by p37ry 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No,typical manual labor tune.
2007-11-29 20:58:15 · answer #5 · answered by Mo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no idea, sorry :(
2007-11-29 21:03:07 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋