Rockapella - Sixteen Tons lyrics

rate me

I was born in a drivin' rain

(yes you was...mmhmm)

It was more of a drizzle...

Fightin' and trouble been my middle name

(nasty boy...look out)

When I come 'round better step aside

Well alotta men didn't

and alotta men died

(doom doom doom doom ba doom)

doom boode doo doode doo doo

Well some folks say a man is made out of mud

A poor man's made out of muscle and blood

Muscle and blood, and skin and bone...

Gotta mind that's weak and a back that's strong

Chorus:

Sixteen tons, whatta 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 sto'

When I was born, that sun didn't shine

Along came a man who worked in a mine

I shoveled sixteen tons of number 9 coal

And the foreman said "well bless my soul!"

(chorus)

You see me comin', better step aside

Alotta men didn't, alotta men died.

I got one fist of iron the other is steel

If the left one don't getcha,

then the right one will!

(chorus)

(ya know sixteen tons)

Sixteen tons...

(a-whatta you get?)

What do you get?

(another day older and deeper in debt)

Ohhhh...so many broke!

St. Pete don'tcha call me, cuz i can't go.

I owe my soul

(I owe my soul)

I owe my soul

(ooo I owe my soul)

I owe my soul

(oooo owe it to tha company sto')

Company sto'-o-owee-o-do

be-de-whoa-whoa-o-be-do-do-be-do-do

o-o-obe-do-do-be-de-do

I owe my soul....

To the Company stooooo'