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To: RipSawyer
You work sixteen tons
And wadda ya get
Another day older and a deeper in debt

While other kids spend their after school time, weekends, and summers playing, you spend it working.

People that grew up in the cities have no concept do they?

15 posted on 07/14/2010 7:37:09 AM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: IMR 4350

“People that grew up in the cities have no concept do they?”
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Not really, I turned eleven about the time that Tennessee Ernie recorded his version of Sixteen Tons. The first time I heard it on the radio I turned to my mother and told her that it would be a number one hit record and it is still his biggest selling record. I knew it would be a hit because something in it rang true with those who knew what real hard work was. By age eleven I was already all too familiar with hard work but now I am glad I didn’t grow up the easy way. I might have turned out like one of those people who think roughing it means driving a stick shift.


16 posted on 07/14/2010 7:55:03 AM PDT by RipSawyer (Trying to reason with a leftist is like trying to catch sunshine in a fish net at midnight.)
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