Freddy Quinn - Sixteen Tons 2002

Freddy Quinn - Sixteen Tons 2002
Original von 1956

Some people say a man is made out of mud
A poor man's made out of 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
where 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

If you see me comin', better step aside
A lot of men didn't, a lot of men died
A 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

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Schlager
• 50s
• DE
• Freddy
• Quinn
• Sixteen
• Tons
• 2002

[SkyWithBlue]

Too jazzy and polished for me..

[qermont]

horrible, it doesn't represent at all what the song talks about... the opression of the working class by the fucking MAN... coleworkers had a real shitty job in that time...they were real bad asses... hard men, who fucking worked 10 hours or more in damp, moist environment doing shitty job that didn't even pay that much... so they had something to be blue about

[xsellsbrod]

@qermont same like Big bad john, who cares about the story ???

[xsellsbrod]

@qermont i tell you something, at songs like : Hiroshima, War, you`r in the army now , luky man and many many others, people dance and have fun at the Disco.... nobody cares what it is about, they sing and dance, they sing and dance, they...........

[bobu46]

Freddy Quinn singing soul - I don't know :-) !!

[EduDeAguiarTV]

cool!

[STU676]

@CKtheFat ouch,,,brutal

[STU676]

@malcjow Indeed

[STU676]

@maviki374 yes you were !!! Its awful.

[STU676]

Sorry...not for me

[maviki374]

had a strong feeling this was gonna suck..................and i was right.

[AlexrSnow]

Good for rich people dancing