Sixteen Tons — Tennessee Ernie Ford

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Some days, I’m not sure the world has moved on much in the last couple of hundred years.

Sure, we have toys and gadgets now we didn’t have back then. Motor vehicles, computers in our pockets and indoor plumbing would seem like unimaginable luxuries to our compatriots of 200 years ago. But scratch the surface and the world doesn’t look that different under its modern, glossier, exterior.