TELECOM Digest OnLine - Sorted: Sixteen Tons ... (was Re: the Hazards of Instant Communications)

Danny Burstein (dannyb@panix.com)
Wed, 4 Jan 2006 22:56:14 EST

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> and dangerous by anyone's standards. Wasn't there a popular song
> several years ago which went (something like this} "Work (some amount)
> of hours, and what do you get, another day older and deeper in debt;
> Saint Peter don't you call me cause I can't go; I owe my soul to the
> company store."....

The song is "Sixteen Tons" by Tennesee Ernie Ford.

For a modern video takeoff on it, used by General Electic in an
advertisment, check out:

http://www.panix.com/~dannyb/video/16-tons-cdr.mov

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