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Sixteen Tons (16 tons) is a song about the life of a coal miner, first recorded in 1946 by American country singer Merle Travis and released on his box set album Folk Songs of the Hills the following year. A 1955 version recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford reached number one in the Billboard charts, while another version by Frankie Laine was released only in the United Kingdom, where it gave Ford's version some stiff competition. A dispute exists regarding the authorship of "Sixteen Tons". While the song is generally attributed to Merle Travis, to whom it is credited on his 1947 recording, George S. Davis, a folk singer and songwriter who had been a coal miner in Kentucky, claimed when he was recorded for Folkways in 1966 to have written the song as "Nine-to-ten tons" in the 1930s. Davis' recording of his version of the song appears on the albums George Davis: When Kentucky Had No Union Men and Classic Mountain Songs from Smithsonian. In 1955 Sixteen Tons was recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford,In the late 1970s, as a CAF colonel, Ford recorded the organization's theme song "Ballad of the Ghost Squadron." Over the years, Ford was awarded three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, for radio, records, and television. He was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1984, and was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 1990. *********************************** 16 tons/George S. Davis 靜心等 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ Some people say a man is made out of mud A poor man's made out of 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 Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause i can't go 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 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 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 tone woman make me walk the line 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 If you see me coming better step aside A lot of men didn't a lot of men died One fist of iron the other of steel If the right one don't get you then the left one will 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

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