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I Owe My Soul to The Government Store

Tennessee Ernie Ford - Sixteen Tons

Ernest Jennings Ford (February 13, 1919 -- October 17, 1991), better known by the stage name Tennessee Ernie Ford, was a pioneering U.S. recording art...


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I Owe My Soul to The Government Store

Back when I wasn’t yet and my father was giving shots to jocks in Air Force uniforms, Tennessee Ernie Ford recorded the following piece called Sixteen Tons: There are few today who would find that that the abuses of which the song speaks are worth repeating, but it would seem that our government is working diligently [...]