Sixteen Tons

Sixteen Tons: Chords

SIm
 ...Some people say a man is made outta mud
  SIm        SIm/LA     SOL#m7/5-  FA#7
A poor man's made outta muscle and blood
SIm        SIm/LA    SOL6     MIm
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
  SIm                         
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong
         SIm SIm/LA SOL#m7/5-   FA#7   
You load 16  tons,  what do you get?
 SIm        SIm/LA    SOL#m7/5- FA#7
Another day older and deeper in debt
    SIm              SIm/LA         SOL6    MIm
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
  SIm
I owe my soul to the company store...

SIm
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
  SIm          SIm/LA       SOL#m7/5-     FA#7
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
         SIm SIm/LA  SOL6        MIm
I loaded 16  tons of number nine coal
        SIm
And the straw boss said, "Well, a-bless my soul"
         SIm SIm/LA SOL#m7/5-   FA#7
You load 16  tons,  what do you get?
 SIm        SIm/LA    SOL#m7/5- FA#7
Another day older and deeper in debt
    SIm              SIm/LA         SOL6    MIm
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
SIm
I owe my soul to the company store...

SIm
I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain
SIm          SIm/LA      SOL#m7/5- FA#7
Fightin' and trouble are my middle name
      SIm           SIm/LA          SOL6     MIm
I was raised in the canebrake by an ol' mama lion
         SIm
Can't no high toned woman make me walk the line
         SIm SIm/LA SOL#m7/5-   FA#7
You load 16  tons,  what do you get?
 SIm        SIm/LA    SOL#m7/5- FA#7
Another day older and deeper in debt
    SIm              SIm/LA         SOL6    MIm
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
  SIm
I owe my soul to the company store...

SIm
If you see me comin', better step aside
  SIm       SIm/LA    SOL#m7/5- FA#7
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
SIm         SIm/LA    SOL6     MIm
One fist of iron, the other of steel
       SIm
If the right one don't get you

Then the left one will
         SIm SIm/LA SOL#m7/5-   FA#7
You load 16  tons,  what do you get?
 SIm        SIm/LA    SOL#m7/5- FA#7
Another day older and deeper in debt
    SIm              SIm/LA         MIm
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go...
                 
                               SIm   FA#7  SIm
I owe my soul to the company store

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Sixteen Tons è un brano reinterpretato e inciso da Ernest Jennings Ford, al secolo Tennessee Ernie Ford, pubblicato come singolo nel 1955 e che, proprio grazie alla versione del cantante del Tennessee, riscosse grande successo in tutti gli USA balzando in cima alla classifica Billboard. Si tratta di una ballata country scritta nel 1946 dal cantautore del Kentucky Merle Travis; il testo affonda nei ricordi d'infanzia, quando vedeva il lavoro usurante dei minatori della zona.

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Alberto Moneti

36 anni, polistrumentista: pianoforte, chitarra, batteria, clarinetto. Ha conseguito la licenza in teoria musicale e solfeggio presso il Conservatorio Cherubini di Firenze. Dal 1997 è organista presso la Basilica di Santa Maria del Sasso, a Bibbiena (AR).