Sixteen Tons Lyrics

The song Sixteen Tons is performed by Johnny Cash in the album named I Walk the Line in the year 2006 .



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
I owe my soul to the company store



Johnny Cash - I Walk the Line

Apr 2006

  1. Ring of Fire
  2. Big River
  3. Boy Named Sue
  4. City of New Orleans
  5. Rock Island Line
  6. Highwayman
  7. Long Black Veil
  8. Folsom Prison Blues
  9. I Got Stripes
  10. I Still Miss Someone
  11. Without Love
  12. Any Old Wind That Blows
  13. Forty Shades of Green
  14. Fourth Man
  15. Will the Circle Be Unbroken
  16. And Ride This Train
  17. Five Feet High and Rising
  18. Hey Porter
  19. Wreck of the Old '97
  20. Pickin Times
  21. These Hands
  22. No Setting Sun
  23. Busted
  24. Tennessee Flat-Top Box
  25. Ragged Old Flag
  26. Ballad of Ira Hayes
  27. Riders in the Sky
  28. Far Side Banks of Jordan
  29. Gospel Boogie
  30. Oh Come Angel Band
  31. Baron
  32. Don't Take Your Guns to Town
  33. Wall
  34. Cry Cry Cry
  35. Goodbye Little Darlin'
  36. Help Me
  37. Sixteen Tons
  38. Get Rhythm
  39. Jackson
  40. If I Were a Carpenter
  41. Orange Blossom Special
  42. Sunday Morning Coming Down
  43. Casey Jones
  44. Peace in the Valley
  45. I Walk the Line

Sixteen Tons