Merle Travis Quotes

• You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.

  Merle Travis

  Soul, Debt, Another Day

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• I have known the fruits of strikes. The bitter and the sweet. Hunger and music.

  Merle Travis

  Sweet, Fruit, Bitterness

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• The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

  Merle Travis

  Song, Persons, Saddest

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• Who deserves more credit than the wife of a coal miner? Mother was one.

  Merle Travis

  Mother, Deserve More, Coal Miners

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• My father and brothers were coal miners.

  Merle Travis

  Brother, Father, Coal Miners

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