DEEPER AND DEEPER INTO UNPAYABLE DEBT! BACK IN THE 30'S A YOUNG COUPLE TOOK MATTERS INTO THERI OWN HANDS. NOBODY UNDERSTOOD THE ACT OF 1872 THEN, NOR DO THEY UNDERSTAND IT TODAY. SING ALONG WITH 16-TONS, A PAIN KILLER THAT WILL HELP GET YOU THROUGH THIS NIGHT.

DEEP STATE WORLD DEBT CHAINED BALL IS NOW TOWERING USS300-TRILLION FOR A POPULATION OF ALMOST 7-BILLION IN OVER 200-COUNTRIES, AND NO END IN SIGHT. IT'S BOOM FOR INSIDER (1%)  AND BUST FOR THE OUTSIDER (99%), WHO CANNOT THINK FOR THEMSELVES.

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
Can'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

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Songwriters: Merle Travis

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