Released, Live Recorded Versions
16 Tons (Live, Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW Session, 2003) [edit]
| Artist: | eels |
| Time: | Unknown |
| Credits: | Unknown |
| Appears On: | 16 Tons (Ten Songs) (Live Album)
| | Concert Place: | Morning Becomes Eclectic, KCRW Session |
| Concert Year: | 2003 |
| Tour: | Tour Of Duty (Shootenanny!) |
Played Live on Tour (not (yet) released)
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| Artist: | eels |
| Tour: | Tour Of Duty (Shootenanny!) |
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Some people say a man is made out of mud
A poor mans made out of muscle and blood.
Muscle and blood, and skin and bones
A mind thats weak and a back that's strong.
You load sixteen tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter dont you call me 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
I was born one morning when the sun didnt shine.
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine.
I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal.
And the store boss said "Well bless my soul."
You load sixteen tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter dont you call me 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
I was born one morning it was drizzling rain.
Fighting and trouble are my middle name.
I was raised in the cambric by an ol' mama lion.
Can't know a high toned woman make me walk the line.
You load sixteen tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter dont you call me 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store.
If you see me coming better step aside.
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died.
One fist of iron, the other of steel.
If the right one dont get you the left one will.
You load sixteen tons and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
St. Peter dont you call me 'cause I can't go.
I owe my soul to the company store. |