Sixteen tons

e|---------------------------------------|   B|--4h5-4h5--4h5--3--1---1---------------|   G|---------------------2----2--0--1/2----|   D|---------------------------------------|   A|---------------------------------------|   E|---------------------------------------|        e|-----------------------------------------------------------0-----------|   B|--4h5-4h5--4h5--3--1---1-----------------------------------1-----------|   G|---------------------2----2--0--1/2--0-----------2---0-----2-----------|   D|----------------------------------------3--2------------3--2-----------|   A|-----------------------------------------------------------------------|   E|-----------------------------------------------------------------------| Some people say a man is made outta mud   A poor man’s made outta muscle an’ blood   Muscle an’ blood an’ skin an’ bone   A mind that’s weak and a back that’s strong   You load sixteen tons an’ what do ya get?   Another day older an’ deeper in debt   Saint Peter don’t ya 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   Picked up my shovel and I went to the mine   Loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal   The strawboss said "Well Bless my soul!"   I was born one morning it was drizzlin’ rain   Fightin’ and trouble are my middle name   Raised in the canebreak by an old mama lion   Ain’t no high-tone woman make me walk the line   If ya see me coming ya better step aside   A lotta men didn’t and a lotta men died   With one fist of iron an’ the other of steel   If the right one don’t get ya then the left one will.