Shockoe Records Presents...Høly River LIVE
Recorded during Shockoe Sessions Live March 17, 2021
Original song "Sixteen Tons" written by Merle Travis in 1946
Mixed and Mastered by Carlos Chafin at In Your Ear Studios.
Høly River is Laney Sullivan and Jameson Price
with Jessika Blanks on violin
2022 All Rights Reserved
lyrics
Some people say we're made outta mud
A poor one's made outta muscle and blood
Muscle and blood and skin and bones
A mind that's a-weak and a back that's strong
You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company....
I was born one mornin' when the sun didn't shine
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine
I loaded 16 tons of number nine coal
And the straw boss said, "Well, a-bless my soul"
You load 16 tons, what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt
St. Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company....
fuck the company
unionize! unionize!
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