Note to play in the same key as the recording you have to drop a whole tone down... DGCFAD
The chords are relative to that open position, so Am is played X03320, although it
is actually a [Gm]
Intro
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[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
Verse 1
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[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
Some people say a man is made out of mud
[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood...
[Am] [C] [Dm] [F]
Muscle and blood skin and bone
[Am] [E] [Am] [E]
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong
Chorus 1
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[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
You load sixteen tons and whaddya get?
[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
A-nother day older and deeper in debt
[Am] [C] [Dm] [F]
Saint Peter dontcha call me 'cause I can't go
[Am] [E] [Am]
I owe my soul to the company store
Verse 2
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[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine
[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
[Am] [C] [Dm] [F]
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal
[Am] [E] [Am]
The strawboss said Well, Bless my soul!
Chorus 2
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[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
You load sixteen tons and whaddya get?
[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
A-nother day older and deeper in debt
[Am] [C] [Dm] [F]
Saint Peter dontcha call me 'cause I can't go
[Am] [E] [Am]
I owe my soul to the company store
Verse 3
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[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
I was born one morning it was drizzling rain
[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
Fighting and trouble are my middle name
[Am] [C] [Dm] [F]
I was raised in the cane-break by an old mama lion
[Am] [E] [Am]
Can't no hot-coloured woman make me haunt the line
Chorus 3
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[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
You load sixteen tons and whaddya get
[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
A-nother day older and deeper in debt
[Am] [C] [Dm] [F]
Saint Peter dontcha call me 'cause I, I can't go
[Am] [E] [Am]
I owe my soul to the company store
Verse 4 - key change!
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[Bbm] /[Ab] [Gb] [F]
If you see me coming better step a-side
[Bbm] /[Ab] [Gb] [F]
A lotta men didn't a lotta men died
[Bbm] [Db] [Ebm] [Gb]
I got one fist of iron the other of steel
[Bbm] [F] [Bbm]
If the right one don't get ya then the left one will
Chorus 4
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[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
You load up sixteen tons and whaddya get
[Am] /[G] [F] [E]
A-nother day older and deeper in debt
[Am] [C] [Dm] [F]
Saint Peter dontcha call me 'cause I can't go
[Am] [E] [Am]
I owe my soul to the company store
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I hope I've done it justice!
Kevin O'Brien
Watford
England
May 2011
watfordkev@gmail.com
