Sixteen Tons

Em   022000
Em7  020030
C    x32010
B7   x21202
Am   x02210

Riff 
e|-----------------------------------| 
B|-0-3-4-5-5-0-0---------------------| 
G|---------------0-0-----------------| 
D|-------------------2-2------1-2----| 
A|-----------------------2-2---------| 
E|-----------------------------------| 

Em          Em7          C           B7
Some people say a man is made out of mud
  Em         Em7         C          B7
A poor man's made out of muscle and blood
Em                   Am
Muscle and blood and skin and bone
  Em---
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong

refrein:
         Em      Em7      C           B7
You load sixteen tons and whad do you get?
  Em        Em7       C         B7
Another day older and deeper in debt
      Em                          Am
Saint Peter don't ya call me 'cause I can't go
  Em---
I owe my soul to the company store

If ya hear me coming, you better step aside
A lotta men din't and a lotta men died
With one fist of iron and the other of steel
If the right one don't getcha then the left one will

I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine
Picked up my shovel and I went to the mine
Loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal

And the strawboss said, "Well, Bless my soul!"

I was born one morning in the drizzling rain
Fighting and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the canebreak by and old mama hound
Ain't no high-tone woman gonna push me around.

• Am
• B7
• C
• Em
• Em7