MNOGAJA LETA Quartet - SIXTEEN TONS

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Autore: Merle Travis, prima metà del sec. XX. Questo brano non appartiene al repertorio classico del negro spiritual americano, ma ne riecheggia il dolore le domande. Perciò viene classificato nello stile "white-gospel".
Racconta la sofferenza di un minatore del Muhlenberg County, Kentucky.

LIVE dal concerto del MNOGAJA LETA Quartet in San Patrignano (Rimini, 19 settembre 2005
, Auditorium della grande comunità di recupero per tossicodipendenti).

ESECUTORI:
Luciano Gattinoni (Pianoforte - Tenore)
Maurizio Mauri (Basso)
Alberto Vigevani (Basso)
Nino Giagnoni (Tenore)

Con la partecipazione di:
Vanni Stefanini (batteria)
Giovanni Vergani (chitarra)
Riccardo Vigorè (Contrabbasso)

LYRICS

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

You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
another day older and deeper in debt.
Say brother, 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 a bless my soul!"

You load...

I was born one mornin' it was drizzlin' rain
fightin' and trouble are my middle name
I was raised in a canebrake by an old mama lion
cain't no high-toned woman make me walk the line.

You load...

If you see me comin', better step aside
A lotta men didn't, a lotta men died
One fist of iron, the other of steel
If the right one don't get you, then the left one will.


You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
another day older and deeper in debt.
Say brother, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go
I owe my soul to the company store.

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