Sixteen Tons

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Western Flyer was an American country music band founded in 1992 by Danny Myrick (lead vocals, bass guitar), Chris Marion (keyboards, vocals), T. J. Klay (harmonica, mandolin, vocals), Bruce Gust (drums, vocals), Steve Charles (lead guitar, vocals), and Roger Helton (acoustic guitar, banjo, vocals). The band released two albums for Step One Records, as well as six singles. Their highest peaking single is "What Will You Do with M-E?", which reached No. 32 on the Billboard country charts in 1996. After Western Flyer disbanded, Marion joined the Little River Band, and Myrick began writing songs for other artists. more »

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1996

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Some people say a man is made outta mud 
A poor man´s made outta muscle and blood 
Muscle and blood and skin and bones 
A mind that´s a-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 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 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 mornin´, it was drizzlin´ rain 
Fightin´ and trouble are my middle name 
I was raised in the canebrake by an ol´ mama lion 
Cain´t no-a high-toned 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 comin´, better step aside 
A lotta men didn´t, a lotta men died 
One fist of iron, the other of steel 
If the right one don´t a-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

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