Sixteen Tons Trk 7 2:26
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(Merle Travis)
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Bo Diddley
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Bo Diddley - vocal & guitar, Peggy Jones - guitar
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Lafayette Leake or Billy Stewart - piano, Jerome Green - maracas
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Jesse James Johnson - electric bass. Willie Dixon - bass overdub
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Chicago, Billy Downing - drums, unk. backing vocals. Rec: Feb. 1960.
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'Bo Diddley's A Gunslinger' LPS 2977, CD 80001761- 02.
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Transcriber: [email protected]
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(Huffin', puffin', yeah-yeah-yeah)
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(Muscle, muscle, yeah-yeah-yeah)
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(Huffin', puffin', yeah-yeah-yeah)
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People say a man is made outta mud
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Poor man made outta muscle and blood
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Muscle and blood and skin and bone
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A mind that's weak and a back that's strong
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You load sixteen tons and what do you get
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Another day older and deeper in debit
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St. Peter don't ya me 'cause I can't go
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Owe my soul to the company sto'
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(Muscle, muscle, yeah-yeah-yeah)
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(Huffin', puffin', yeah-yeah-yeah)
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(Muscle, muscle, yeah-yeah-yeah)
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I was born one mornin'
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When the sun didn't shine
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I picked up my shovel and I started to the mine
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I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
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The strawboss says, well now, bless his soul
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He loaded sixteen tons and what did he get
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'Nuther day older and deeper in debt
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St. Peter don't ya me 'cause I can't go
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Owe my soul to the company sto'
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(Muscle, muscle, yeah-yeah-yeah)
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(Huffin', puffin', yeah-yeah-yeah)
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(Muscle, muscle, yeah-yeah-yeah)
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You see me comin' you better step aside
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A-lotta men didn't and a-lot a-'em died
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One fist of iron the other one of steel
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If the right one don't get you then the left one will
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Ya load sixteen tons and what do you get
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'Nuther day older and deeper in debt
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St. Peter don't ya me 'cause I can't go
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Owe my soul to the company sto'.
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Sixteen Tons
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| Bo Diddley |
