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Source/attribution: rjr
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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
Parsons Code:RURRURDDUURRDRDURRDR
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