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    1. Heer Rozenwater's avatar Heer Rozenwater

      Some people say a man is made outta mud
      A poor man’s made outta muscle and blood
      Muscle and blood and skin and bones
      A mind that’s a-weak and a back that’s strong

      You load sixteen tons, what do you get
      Another day older and deeper in debt
      Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go
      I owe my soul to the company store

      I was born one mornin’ when the sun didn’t shine
      I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
      I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
      And the straw boss said “Well, a-bless my soul”

      You load sixteen tons, what do you get
      Another day older and deeper in debt
      Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go
      I owe my soul to the company store

      I was born one mornin’, it was drizzlin’ rain
      Fightin’ and trouble are my middle name
      I was raised in the canebrake by an ol’ mama lion
      Cain’t no-a high-toned woman make me walk the line

      You load sixteen tons, what do you get
      Another day older and deeper in debt
      Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go
      I owe my soul to the company store

      If you see me comin’, better step aside
      A lotta men didn’t, a lotta men died
      One fist of iron, the other of steel
      If the right one don’t a-get you
      Then the left one will

      You load sixteen tons, what do you get
      Another day older and deeper in debt
      Saint Peter don’t you call me ‘cause I can’t go
      I owe my soul to the company store

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