Version 1 entered on 2004-12-04 by rjr
composer/group: | Merle Travis, 1947 | title: | Sixteen Tons (sung by Tennessee Ernie Ford) Chorus | category: | Popular | lyrics or other text: | 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
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