If you don’t know that song, it’s okay, it just means you’re too young to have heard it or the commercial that picked it up a few years back. It implies that you can put in a tremendous day’s work and ...

Stars in the late 1950s didn’t come much bigger than singer Tennessee Ernie Ford. Before he had a monster TV variety show, he’d already had numerous chart singles that gained him a certain amount of ...

“Tennessee” Ernie Ford was the original artist of a song that became a big hit for him when it came out in 1955. It was called “Sixteen Tons.” The chorus of the song included the lyrics: “You load 16 ...

There is a great country blue grass song made famous by Tennessee Ernie Ford called "16 Tons." It chronicles life as a coal miner in the thirties. The chorus is: You load sixteen tons what do you get ...

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 Ernie Ford’s recording of Sixteen Tons ...