The Weavers - Sixteen Tons (Live) Lyrics

Lyrics Sixteen Tons (Live) - The Weavers



Some people say a man is made out of mud
A poor man′s made out of 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
Raised in the Canebrake by an old mama lion
Ain'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 lot of men didn't, and a lot of men died
With one fist of iron, and the other of steel
If the right one don′t 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



Writer(s): MERLE TRAVIS


The Weavers - The Collection 1957-1961
Album The Collection 1957-1961
date of release
26-06-2013

1 Darling Corey (Live)
2 Kisses Sweeter Than Wine - Live
3 Pay Me My Money Down (Live)
4 Greensleeves - Live
5 Rock Island Line (Live)
6 Around the World (Live)
7 Wimoweh (Live)
8 Venga Jaleo - Live
9 Suliram (Live)
10 Shalom Chaverim (Live)
11 Lonesome Traveller - Live
12 I Know Where I'm Going (Live)
13 Woody's Rag and 900 Miles (Live)
14 Sixteen Tons (Live)
15 Follow the Drinking Gourd (Live)
16 When the Saints Go Marching In - Live
17 I've Got A Home In That Rock - Live
18 Hush Little Baby - Live
19 Go Where I Send Thee (Live)
20 Goodnight Irene - Live
21 Twelve Gates To the City
22 Erie Canal
23 I Never Will Marry
24 Old Riley
25 Sinner Man
26 House Of The Rising Sun
27 The Keeper
28 You Made Me a Pallet on the Floor
29 Mi Caballo
30 Kumbaya
31 Hopsha-Diri
32 Si Mi Quieres
33 State of Arkansas
34 Greenland Whale Fisheries
35 Eddystone Light
36 Gotta Travel On
37 This Land Is Your Land
38 Aweigh, Santy Ano
39 Wild Goose Grasses
40 Meet the Johnson Boys
41 Aunt Rhodie
42 Tina
43 Eres Alta
44 Come Little Donkey
45 Kum Bachura
46 All Night Long
47 You Old Fool
48 Every Night
49 Let the Midnight Special
50 Bury Me
51 Almost Done
52 Empty Pocket Blues
53 Howard's Dead and Gone
54 Around the World Medley - Arta Alinu / Floppy Eared Mule / Mazurka / Hey Liley Liley Lo
55 Bay of Mexico
56 I Know Where I'm Going / Hush Little Baby
57 The Frozen Logger
58 Darling Corey
59 Follow the Drinking Gourd
60 Tzena Tzena Tzena
61 Suliram
62 Sylvie (Bring Me Lil Water, Sylvie)
63 Greensleeves
64 Along The Colorado Trail
65 Hard Ain't It Hard
66 On My Journey (Live)
67 Born in East Virginia (Live)
68 Bill Bailey Come Home (Live)
69 Sinking on the Reuben James (Live)
70 Good Old Bowling Green (Live)
71 There Once Was a Young Man Who Went to the City (Live)
72 Subo (Live)
73 Lat Night I Had the Strangest Dream (Live)
74 Marching to Pretoria (Live)
75 Stewball (Live)
76 Below the Gallows Tree (Live)
77 Tapuach Hineni (Live)
78 Universal Folk Song (Live)
79 Run, Come See Jerusalem (Live)
80 Buttermilk Hill (Live)
81 Amazing Grace (Live)
82 Virgin Mary (Live)
83 New Jerusalem (Live)
84 When The Stars Begin To Fall
85 We're All Dodgin'
86 Brother Can You Spare a Dime
87 Jackhammer John
88 A-Walking and A-Talking
89 Fight On
90 Bill
91 Rally Round The Flag
92 Get Along Little Dogies
93 True Religion
94 Which Side Are You On
95 Bye, Baby, Bye




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