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Posted on 07/12/2005 8:11:36 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog
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Trying to remember who I've heard do that song. I've got it on a CD somewhere, I think. I can heard the melody and singer and all in my head...just can't remember who the voice belongs to!
sixteen tons, whaddya get?
another day older and deeper in debt.
Evening!
St. Peter don't ya call me 'cause I can't go,
I owe my soul to the company store.
So what's the song theme here? Would lyrics from the Muppets be totally out of place?
Is there a Muppet songs about mines and debt and such?
Probably.
I could do a round of "Fifteen Miles on the Erie Canal"...
Ooh...duh! It's on Johnny Cash's Folsom Prison live album. Now I feel really stoopid for not remembering.
If ya see me comin' better step aside.
A lot of men didn't. A lot of men died.
One fist of iron and another of steel,
If the right one don't get ya, the left one will.
It's a cheery little ditty:
Come and listen you fellows
So young and so fine
And seek not your fortune
In the dark, dreary mines
It will form as a habit
Seep in your soul
'Til the blood in your veins
Runs as black as the coal
There's many a man
That I've known in my day
Who lived just to labor
His whole life away
Like a fiend with his dope
And a drunkard his wine
A man will have lust for
The lure of the mine
It's dark as a dungeon
Damp as the dew
The danger is double
And the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
Where the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine
I hope when I'm gone
And the ages shall roll
My body will blacken
And turn into coal
Then I'll look out the door
Of my heavenly home
And I'll pity the miners
A-diggin' my bones
It's dark as a dungeon
Damp as the dew
The danger is double
And the pleasures are few
Where the rain never falls
Where the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine
Where the rain never falls
Where the sun never shines
It's dark as a dungeon
Way down in the mine
We don't like the dark places, do we, Preciousss?
Rosie - we have a winner.. Actually we heard it again today on 'Cypress Avenue'.
It was sung by a young man from Lebanon MO, sings with a Springfield MO band. Brian Capps (spelling unknown at this point).
Ready for this - Country with a Reggae Beat. Turned out quite well actually..
Least when he dies he gets recyled as coal.
Though...not sure that's a happy thought.
Tennesse Ernie Ford, a classic rendition IMHO.
But that will take a while.
Eh...what's a few eons to a dead guy?
Though...then he pities the guys diggin' him out. So maybe he'd be happier unrecycled. Poor dude.
I was born one day when the sun didn't shine
I picked up muh shovel and I walked to the mine.
Very good, there a few places I couldn't remember the words. Just finished singing it, guess it wasn't tooo bad, Gypsy didn't leave. :-)
I loaded 16 tons of No. 9 coal
and boss man said 'Well, bless my soul."
Tennessee Ernie Ford!! One of my Daddy's favorites. Daddy had a big booming bass voice and I loved hearing him sing that song!
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