Note to play in the same key as the recording you have to drop a whole tone down... DGCFAD
The chords are relative to that open position, so Am is played X03320, although it
is actually a Gm
Intro
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/G
/G
Verse 1
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/G
Some people say a man is made out of mud
/G
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood...
Muscle and blood skin and bone
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong
Chorus 1
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/G
You load sixteen tons and whaddya get?
/G
A-nother day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter dontcha call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Verse 2
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/G
I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine
/G
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
The strawboss said Well, Bless my soul!
Chorus 2
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/G
You load sixteen tons and whaddya get?
/G
A-nother day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter dontcha call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Verse 3
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/G
I was born one morning it was drizzling rain
/G
Fighting and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in the cane-break by an old mama lion
Can't no hot-coloured woman make me haunt the line
Chorus 3
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/G
You load sixteen tons and whaddya get
/G
A-nother day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter dontcha call me 'cause I, I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
Verse 4 - key change!
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/Ab
If you see me coming better step a-side
/Ab
A lotta men didn't a lotta men died
I got one fist of iron the other of steel
If the right one don't get ya then the left one will
Chorus 4
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/G
You load up sixteen tons and whaddya get
/G
A-nother day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter dontcha call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store
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I hope I've done it justice!
Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
May 2011
watfordkev@gmail.com