Sixteen tons letra

Some people say a man is made out of mud
A poor man's made out of mud and muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's weak and a back that's strong

You load sixteen tons, what do you get
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store

I was born one mornin' 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 strawboss said,

Stan Ridgway - Letras

• A Mission In Life
• After The Storm
• Amnesia
• An Act Of Faith
• Animal Day
• As I Went Out One Morning
• Back in flesh
• Back towards diamond bar
• Bel air blues
• Beloved Movie Star
• Beyond Tomorrow
• Big American Problem
• Big Dumb Town
• Bing Cant Walk (cause Bob Broke Both His Legs)
• Brand New Special And Unique
• Call Box
• Call of the west
• Calling Out To Carol
• Camouflage
• Can't Complain
• Can't make love
• Can't stop the show
• Cannon Song
• Cant Make Love
• Crack the bell
• Crystal palace
• Deep Blue Polka Dot
• Dogs
• Don't Box Me In
• Down the coast highway
• Drive She Said
• End Of An Era
• End Of The Line
• Factory
• Floundering
• Foggy river
• Free of It All
• Full of tension
• Funzone
• Garage Band 69
• Goin Southbound
• Gone the distance
• Good times
• Hands of love
• Harry Truman
• Hear that bird
• Highway song
• I Wanna Be A Boss
• Invisible man
• Jack Talked
• Knife Fork
• Lonely Town
• Longarm
• Look at their way
• Luther played guitar
• Mama had a stove
• Man of stone
• Me and my dad
• Me My Dad
• Mexican Radio
• Mission bell
• Mr. smith
• My exclusive sex club
• Nadine
• New Blue Mercedes
• Newspapers
• Old bent coin
• Only a Hobo
• Operator Help Me
• Overlords
• Peg And Pete And Me
• Picasso's tear
• Pick It Up
• Pile driver
• Pink parakeet
• Police call
• Red light
• Right Through You
• Ring Of Fire
• Rio Greyhound
• Salesman
• Sixteen tons
• Snaketrain
• Spy world
• Stormy side of town
• Stranded
• Susie before sunrise
• Talk Hard
• The Big Heat
• The Gumbo Man
• The Last Honest Man
• The Man in The Long Black Coat
• The Overlords
• The Roadblock
• They don't want me
• This way out
• Time Inside
• Time wave zero
• Tomorrow
• Train Of Thought
• Triangle head
• Tse tse fly
• Twisted
• Two Minutes Till Lunch
• Uba's House Of Fashions
• Underneath The Big Green Tree
• Valerie is sleeping
• Walkin Home Alone
• Whatever Happened To You?