Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
Greatest Hit Type: No 1 Hit Single
Reached No 1 Position: 21 January 1956
Maintained Position For: 4 weeks
In the year of 1956 Tennessee Ernie Ford moved up to the number 1 chart position with the greatest hit single entitled 'Sixteen Tons'. Leading the charts on Saturday, January 21, 1956 Tennessee Ernie Ford maintained the no 1 position for 4 weeks.
Lyrics for Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons
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 weak and a back that's strong
Chorus:
You load sixteen tons, and whattaya get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don'cha call me, cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
I was born one morning 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 bless my soul!"
Chorus
I was born one morning, it was drizzlin' rain
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the canebreak by an old mama lion
Cain't no high-toned woman make me walk the line
Chorus
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 getcha then the left one will
Chorus
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