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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