Johnny Cash - Sixteen Tons guitar chord

SIXTEEN TONS

JOHNNY CASH

Am

Some people say a man is made outta mud.

Am

A poor man's made outta muscle and blood.

Am Dm

Muscle and blood, and skin and bone,

F#7-stop Am-stop

A mind that's weak, and a back that's strong.

CHORUS:

Am

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

Am

Another day older, and deeper in debt.

Am Dm

Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go,

F#7 Am

I owe my soul to the company store.

I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine,

I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine.

I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal,

And the straw-boss said "Well a-bless my soul". Chorus

I was born one morning it was drizzling rain.

Fighting and trouble are my middle name.

I was raised in the canebreak by an old mama lion.

Ain't no high toned woman make me walk the line. Chorus

If you ever see me coming better step aside.

A lotta men didn't and a lotta men died.

One fist of iron the other of steel.

If the right one don't get you then the left one will.

Chorus