Sixteen Tons | Tennessee Ernie Ford

[ijones8]

i cant go, i owe my soul too Rio tinto.

[songmaster6]

im 16 ive been listening to this kind of music since i was a little kid and i love this music

[Ltumarelis1]

@songmaster6 Same here just that I am 14:)

[WardMeer]

@Ltumarelis1 Buy a cake and celebrate

[Ltumarelis1]

@WardMeer Shure:)

[dkfjalkdjf]

This song is a big favorite!

[mrblackpuma74]

Listen too the brazilian samba version: "Noriel Vilela - 16 Toneladas".

[ST0NEBEARS]

My dad used to sing this song ... I have to listen to this, Otis Redding "Sittin by the dock of the bay" and a few others on a regular basis when thinking of my dad ... great memories.

[TheJustin574]

Am I the only person under 20 that listens to this awesome song?

Without my grandfather I wouldn't have known about this song :)

[SilentCrafter]

@TheJustin574 No, you aren't, dear sir, you aren't.

[TheJureeee]

@TheJustin574 no, for luck you're not the only one person I'm 15 and I love that music.

[TwistedSpeech]

Ernie didn't write this song, it was written by Merle Travis.

[drinkredstripe]

mad men

[rickysawhney08]

Absolutely super even after all these years.

[danichvitaly]

Лучшее исполнение Sixteen Tons

[philthetremoloking]

actually it was written by Merle Travis but this is the best-known version

[GaladedridDamodred]

I don't wanna be a coal miner anymore. :(

[Ms2blackcats]

is it true that the companies would ban this song from the local stations?

[fullmetalgod]

@Ms2blackcats

Of course. Why would they want songs that would inspire unionization when the whole system was set up to create permanent debt and restrict worker rights?

[Ms2blackcats]

@fullmetalgod Funny how you'll get different answers on this song being restricted . I wonder what Wal Mart would do with that song if it were released today. They're anti union big time.

[fullmetalgod]

@Ms2blackcats

THAT'S a fact. First video they show you is an anti-union video during your first day. Sad when that's before even basic safety or welcome to Wal-Mart videos.

I'm pretty sure they'll give a write-up saying something about inappropriate music that may offend customers. They'd never allow that song to play WILLINGLY in the store. No matter how awesome it is just because of how powerful the message is about crappy companies that would KILL to keep slave labor.

[Ms2blackcats]

@fullmetalgod you'll like this The Wal Mart Queen Alice opened her billion dollar 's worth of American art that she bought and has put in this museum in her holler over in Bentonville. I wrote that sure and she did it on the backs of her unfair low wage employees. This has created a firestorm of hate mail. The proudest remark was that I'm one of those left wing liberal socialist!!! I've replied that my feelings are hurt because you left out I'm a loyal UMWAmember and proud of it! I

[LoveandHate0666]

When this came out, I was too young to write, but I memorized it, and my dad wrote it down for me. I told my sons this years later. Later still, my older son put this as my ring tone on my cell. I LOVE this song!!!!!

[eren96lmn]

This man looks like Don Vito Corleone in the Godfather

[jannyrcobs]

The sad, short story of Wales.

[GeneralBurkhalter1]

@taekinuru2

Minecraft <3

[GlyndwrArnold]

The song makes me not want to be a coal miner.

[sidDkid87]

one fist of iron the other of steel, if the right don't get you then the left one will . . .

[ramhakus]

great song regardless of who wrote it.

[simon12194]

@ramhakus Merle Travis wrote it. Tennessee Ernie Ford made a better version of it.

[HITHEREFOLKS]

MERLE TRAVIS WROTE IT I THINK, BUT it became a HUGE HIT BY tennessee ernie ford

[dlmaston]

@HITHEREFOLKS ....Absolutely correct. Written by Merle Travis back in 1946.

[lclussier]

Super, ca me rapelle mon enfance.

[philly452009]

im sorry but he didnt write this.merle travis did

[baracatjr]

@philly452009 That's true!

[eyddi88]

great song:) thanks for throwing it here

[MrGurra97]

throwing children