Vintage Monday: Tennessee Ernie Ford - 16 Tons

[silksteel]

Белозубіе Деффачки! хорєограхвія! панцушоти!

Дабі заценіть лулзовость, надо вчитаться в лирику.
И нет, там таки не про бомбу, а про шахтёров.

Как написал один из комментаторов, "You know the best part of being a coalminer? The dancing girls...".

SIXTEEN TONS
By Merle Travis

Some people say a man is made out of mud

A poor man's made out of muscle and blood

Muscle and blood, skin and bones...

A mind that's weak and a back that's strong

Chorus
You load sixteen tons, and 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 store


I was born one mornin' and the sun didn't shine

I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine

I loaded sixteen tons of number nine coal and

the straw boss said, "well bless my soul!"


I was born one mornin' it was drizzlin' rain

fightin' and trouble are my middle name

I was raised in a cane-brake by an old mama lion

can't no high-toned woman make me walk no line


If you see me comin', better step aside

A lot of men didn't, a lot of men died

One fist of iron, the other of steel

If the right one don't get you, then the left one will

К слову, мне так и не удалось раздобыть мою любимую акапелльную версию...