#16 tons

[serenity2132]

Hey folks of Tumblr! Who wants to see one of the most clueless uses of a song in an advertisement ever?

#General Electric #coal #16 Tons #Tennessee Ernie Ford #Holy shit #so damn clueless #video #YouTube #Hide and Queue

[resonanteye]

#he inherited everything from a slave mine #this shit is in his blood #company town #parable of the sower #16 tons #miners #workers rights #Youtube

[brightfametexan]

Jeff Beck and ZZ Top - Ernie Ford's SIXTEEN TONS

#jeff beck #billy gibbons #tennessee ernie ford #16 tons #Youtube

[fletcherwilbury]

@sochilll December Prompt List Day 16: Fireplace

Warning for Physical abuse, verbal abuse, overworking, exhaustion, flare-up, misgendering

#december prompt list #day 16 #fireplace #tmnt #tmnt 2012 #teenage mutant ninja turtles #tmnt 2012 donnie #tmnt 2012 leo #tmnt 2012 raph #physical abuse tw #verbal abuse tw #overworking cw #exhaustion cw #flare up cw #misgendering tw #16 tons #sixteen tons #tennessee ernie ford #Spotify

[lisamarie-vee]

#tennessee ernie ford #16 tons #country music #vinyllove #hatshop

[punemy-spotted]

for the unannounced 16 tons 👁👄👁

16. Write the next 5 sentences and share.

17. Share the previous 5 sentences. 

You enable me, Brandybean, and I love you so. I'm blending this response into a total of ten sentences to make it easy!

Superintendent Wilford rarely graced town with his presence, usually preferrin’ to speak to the congregation of Snowpiercer through the church you rarely — if ever — attended, lettin’ Minister Mason spread that Iron Gospel of industry at her molten slag of a pulpit. As a result, you never spoke to him, not since the very first day you arrived in town, advertisin’ both the services of that boardin’ house you’d just finished building at the edge of town and the medical services you were now licensed to provide. For the most part, that suited you just fine. You were no stranger to the dangers of the world of men, or the things that crawled outta that path to it your daddy’d once thrown open — an’ subsequently sealed shut, once your momma found out about _that_ particular Pandora’s Box — but seein’ ‘em walkin’ about, calm as you please, as if they were not tears in the fabric of this universe meant to be squashed out lest they spread their wrongness to the rest of this world you’d been tasked with keepin… well, that don’t please you one bit. Which is why, when you walk in to see Superintendent Wilford sittin’ in the waiting room of your clinic, flanked by two of his grim-faced guards, you… Well. Don’t exactly show him deference. Unless this is an emergency, I’m appointment only. Wilford don’t seem too bothered by your… rudeness, though you catch one of his guards snarling somethin’ about teachin’ you to mind your manners. All you get outta him though is an oozin’ smile and a tilt of his head, I think you might want to hear what I have to say, Doctor… Rogers, is it? I know that’s not what they call you around here but— Fine! Your voice is diamond-tipped fury as you cut him off, thankful you gave your secretary the day off as you wave him into your office, slammin’ the door just before his ‘guards’ get a chance to follow.

Okay so I... blame my run-on sentences for this. Don't judge me.

Talk to Me About the WIP I’m Currently Writing

#shroombox #brandycranby #ask game #WIP ask game #yeah okay maybe my sentences are a little LONG but don't JUDGE ME #16 tons

[yoursinharmony]

Sorry to be shallow this evening, but he is gorgeous.

#geoff castellucci #sixteen tons #16 tons #tenessee ernie ford #bass singer #live recording #his voice scratches an itch in my brain #just so good

[fleetshotter-minstrel]

#johnny cash #ring of fire #youtube #tennessee ernie ford #16 tons #golden oldies

[kuiperoid]

They say that a man is made out of mud. A poor man's made out of muscle and blood.

#Tennessee Ernie Ford #Sixteen Tons #Merle Travis #apparently he originally wrote it #16 Tons #working class #class struggle #classism #aporophobia #Naden playlist #Youtube

[nonenglishsongs]

Thursday's Covers Day | Peter Thorup - 16 Tons (Danish)

#gritty bluesy cover of american folk song #thursday's covers day #peter thorup #16 tons #danish #dansk #dan #germanic #indoeuropean #europe #denmark #2007 #2000s #folk #Spotify

[brunhielda]

Musical Themes and Capitalistic Hellscapes

I am walking through Six Flags. For the purpose of this story, the only important thing is I am walking through a theme/amusement park. A place of merriment. A place where aesthetics are designed to elicit cheer.

So I am walking though this theme park, and there are sections. Each section of the park has it’s own soundtrack playing from speakers. The old west section has country music, Looney Tunes section has songs song by various characters, Metropolis (where the super hero themed stuff it) plays the soundtrack from the classic Superman movies, while Gotham (only Batman themed stuff- six flags clearly has a favorite) is playing the soundtrack of the 1990s cartoon.

As a musical nerd I am actually enjoying this and getting excited about recognizing various pieces of music. It’s making my day on an otherwise hot, crowded, annoying trip.

I am in the section of the park that is like “Main St. USA” or “enjoy the 50s” or just general Americana. If you live in the US, you know what I am talking about. Arcades, old style movie theater front, “quaint” shops, ect. It is basically playing “oldies” over the sound system. I can get that at the grocery store at home. I am mostly tuning it out. But then… what comes on?

16 Tons. If you don’t know the song, you can find it below. I am singing it before I realize what I am singing, it is that much a part of American psyche. But then I freeze, mouth gaping open, and laugh. Just a startled. Guffaw of a laugh. I’m sure I startled someone walking by me.

This song is about working a job for your whole life, never to get out from debt, and how it can turn you into one tough son of a bitch. It is about people with power seeing you as property, a cog in a machine.

Hearing it in the middle of an American theme park in a section of cheesie “Americana” fun, was the same weird disorienting feeling of hearing “Fortunate Son” blasting through a patriotic movie. It absolutely fits and absolutely does not in all the best and worst ways. Themes inextricably linked yet not compatible.

Does 16 Tons fit the theme of Americana? Absolutely. Our history with hard labor turning into union fights is part of who we are. Like I said, I know this song so well I was singing before I consciously identified it.

Does 16 Tons have a fun bouncy sound that will keep people moving and doing on a day they might otherwise be tired. For sure. Perfect musically for a theme park soundtrack. That’s part of why it’s so singable. It’s one of those “horrifically dark themes put to a fun beat” songs that get sung in pubs and bus rides simply BECAUSE the tune carries you along.

Does 16 Tons work thematically with forgetting your woes to spend a bunch of money on fun without thought or care? ABSOLUTELY NOT. This is one of those songs that plays on the radio on the way to work and if you relate too hard you walk in and quit. It puts into perspective which way your work/life balance is heading. In the middle of a theme park, some catches the lyric suddenly and it’s “Oh GOD, what have I done? Have I just shoveled the debt deeper to forget about it for a weekend? How do I release myself from this never ending cycle?!”

Point is, if you are trying to paint Americana as this beautiful nostalgic, rosy thing, this is the WRONG SONG. It is far too honest. Like “Fortunate Son” being way too real to the life of military service to be used in a movie painting the life as heroic, “16 Tons” is the actual reality of the furthest hellscape of capitalism that Americana has, can, and will likely continue to fall into.

If the American theme park is this symbol of “the American way” working out like it is supposed to- work your week, have a comfortable life, take the occasional weekend or vacation to places like this and bond with the family- then 16 Tons is the absolute other end of capitalism, where people are chattel, and there is no escape, moreover it is the prevailing belief that escape is somehow “immoral.”

Yet here it was, the hellscape of capitalism, being cheerfully celebrated as part of the perfect American identity.

Laughing was really the only response I could have.

#six flags #theme park #americana #america #musical story #soundtracks of our life #16 tons #capitalism #when the best and worst parts meet up in an amusement park #hellscape of capitalism #tennessee ernie ford #Thank you for telling it how it is in a fun way #it leads to moments like this #that scream “get out! #Youtube #I owe my soul to the company store 🎶 #it ain’t me I ain’t the fortunate son 🎶

[bitletsanddrabbles]

A coworker was standing near by me today talking to a customer. The customer clearly asked him about his name because he explained, "It's from coal mining. A load of coal was a ton, so col-ton." The conversation ended and when I have a chance, I smiled and asked, "And what do you get if you haul sixteen tons of coal?"

He paused.

He thought.

"Another day older and deeper in debt."

This is why I love my coworkers.

#16 tons #song reference #fun at work

[yoursinharmony]

Watch "SIXTEEN TONS | Low Bass Singer Cover" on YouTube

Congrats to Geoff for hitting the 10 million view milestone on this masterpiece! 🎉⛏️

#geoff castellucci #sixteen tons #16 tons #tenessee ernie ford #and Misty Mountains should be following tomorrow... #couldn't happen to a more deserving person #Youtube #what a huge accomplishment

[tonguesofdestruction]

Nina Hagen mit neuem Album “Unity” und Single/Video namens “16 Tons”

Nina Hagen mit neuem Album “Unity” und Single/Video namens “16 Tons”

Am 9. Dezember 2022 erscheint über Grönland Records das neue Studioalbum “Unity” von Nina Hagen. Ihre neue Single “16 Tons” gibt es samt Musikvideo zum Track weiter unten zu sehen. Bei “Unity” handelt es sich um das erste seit dem Studioalbum „VOLKSBEAT“ von 2011. Die zwölf neuen Stücke werden als “ein wilder Trip durch einen dicht gewebten musikalischen Dschungel, in dem es zirpt und surrt und…

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#16 Tons #Grönland Records #Nina Hagen #Unity