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