Sixteen Tons (Easy Accordion)

Description

This song about a Kentucky coal miner was made popular in the 1950s by Tennessee Ernie Ford.  Lyrics were made famous: “Sixteen tons, and what do you get?  Another day older and deeper in debt.”  Composed by Merle Travis in 1947, this arrangement for easy accordion is by Carmen Felice.

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(c) 1947 by American Music, Inc.  This arrangement (c) 1955, and used by permission by Vitak-Elsnic Company.