Middle Earth Sings Folk and Country: First up—Gimli and "Sixteen Tons"
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. I don't own the songs, either. All I did was pair up songs
and singers, and tweak the lyrics a little.
This song was written by Merle Travis and made popular by Tennessee Earnie Ford. It was very easy to
adapt. I guess miners are miners, whichever Earth they delve in.
[Gimli wears a yellow hard hat with a lantern on the front and carries two axes.]
I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine.
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine.
I loaded sixteen tons of mithril ore,
And my dwarf lord told me, "Well, for sure.
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Old Aule don't you call me, 'cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store."
I was born one morning, it was drizzle and rain.
Fighting and trouble are my middle name.
One ax of iron, the other of steel—
If the right one doesn't get you then the left one will.
"You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Old Aule don't you call me, 'cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store."
If you see me coming, better step aside.
A lot of orcs didn't, and a lot of orcs died.
I was raised in the mountains by an old mama lion—
Takes an elven archer to make me walk the line.
"You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Old Aule don't you call me, 'cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store."
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters. I don't own the songs, either. All I did was pair up songs
and singers, and tweak the lyrics a little.
This song was written by Merle Travis and made popular by Tennessee Earnie Ford. It was very easy to
adapt. I guess miners are miners, whichever Earth they delve in.
[Gimli wears a yellow hard hat with a lantern on the front and carries two axes.]
I was born one morning when the sun didn't shine.
I picked up my shovel and I walked to the mine.
I loaded sixteen tons of mithril ore,
And my dwarf lord told me, "Well, for sure.
You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Old Aule don't you call me, 'cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store."
I was born one morning, it was drizzle and rain.
Fighting and trouble are my middle name.
One ax of iron, the other of steel—
If the right one doesn't get you then the left one will.
"You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Old Aule don't you call me, 'cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store."
If you see me coming, better step aside.
A lot of orcs didn't, and a lot of orcs died.
I was raised in the mountains by an old mama lion—
Takes an elven archer to make me walk the line.
"You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Another day older and deeper in debt.
Old Aule don't you call me, 'cause I can't go:
I owe my soul to the company store."