Sixteen Tons
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original song written, composed, and performed by Merle Travis
Wikidata facts
- Genre
- folk music
- Composer
- Merle Travis
- Performer
- Tennessee Ernie Ford
- Tonality
- E minor
- Lyrics by
- Merle Travis
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- language of work or name
- English language
- publication date
- 1946-00-00
- title
- Sixteen Tons
- first line
- Some people say a man is made outta mud
- form of creative work
- song
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Available in 14 languages
- Français
- Deutsch
- Русский
- Português
- Italiano
- Azerbaijani
- Hebrew
- Nederlands
- Norwegian Nynorsk
- Polski
- Romanian
- Serbian (Latin)
- Ukrainian
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