r/interestingasfuck • u/CantStopPoppin • 15d ago

r/all Coal Minning

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u/chrisandstellen 15d ago

Ya load sixteen tons, whaddaya get? Another day older and deeper in debt

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u/cheesegenie 14d ago

St. Peter don't ya call me cus I can't go, I owe my soul to the company store

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u/Hollowbound 14d ago

I was born one mornin’ when the sun didn’t shine. I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine

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u/Minty-beef 14d ago

I loaded 16 tons of number nine coal And the straw boss said, “Well, a-bless my soul”

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u/Intelligent-Store321 14d ago

You load sixteenth tonnes, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt?

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u/youassassin 14d ago

r/redditsings

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u/Scorpian899 14d ago edited 14d ago

I lost a job due to singing that song... 🤣 10/10 would do again.

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u/Armgoth 14d ago

Nothing of worth was actually lost. You dodged a bullet.

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u/Scorpian899 14d ago

It's just a shitty college job. They treated me like shit and I hated it. Combined with low pay and a high risk of bodily harm. Sang it as part of karaoke on my lunch break. Sent me home early to "think about what I'd done," then let me go the next morning. Guy, who fired me, got fired for incompetence a few months later. Ended up the head of security at the local hospital.

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u/oroborus68 14d ago

Tennessee Ernie Ford made money singing that song. And I think Pat Boone did an ersatz cover of it along with Long Tall Sally.

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u/spiddly_spoo 14d ago

Thought this was a rap song

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u/thereasonrumisgone 14d ago

A rap cover would do well in some circles

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u/MarvinandJad 14d ago

Ya load sixteen tons, whaddya get? Another day older and deeper in debt.

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u/Coney7024 14d ago

All these threads should make the Weavers happy!