Rainy Day Blues, Lightnin Hopkins

Lord I´m just sittin´ down here thinkin´,

What am I gonna do on this rainy day x2
Well, it don´t look like the clouds ever, oh, gonna let the sun shine another day.

Yeah you know it keeps on rainin´ Po´ Lightnin´ can´t make no time x2
Yeah you know, I can´t help worry about her
Oh Lord, about that little girl of mine

They tell me it´s rainin´ that´s the time a man have the blues x2
Well you know, I can´t be happy cause my baby left me
She left me my old run down shoes

Did I tell you what I´m gonna do, oh man, on this rainy day
I know what I´m gonna do, man, on this rainy day
Well it don´t look like the sun gonna ever shine
Oh Lord, the cloud won´t pass away
That´s the way it look to me.

Sixteen tons, Tennessee Ernie Ford

Some people say a man is made outta mud

a poor man'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 sixteen tons, what do you get?

another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause Ii can't go
I owe my soul to the company store.

I was born one mornin' when 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 sixteen tons, what do you get?

another day older and deeper in debt
saint peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
Ii owe my soul to the company store.

I was born one mornin', it was drizzlin' rain

fightin' and trouble are my middle name
Ii was raised in the canebrake* by an ol' mama lion
cain't no-a high-toned woman make me walk the line.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

another day older and deeper in debt
Saint Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
Ii owe my soul to the company store,
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 a-get you, then the left one will.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?

another day older and deeper in debt
saint peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go
i owe my soul to the company store.