Memento Mori - Sixteen Tons

Swedish doom metal band Memento Mori version of “Sixteen Tons“. This song is hidden on their album “Life, Death and Other Morbid Tales“ at the end of song “Heathendom“ released in 1994. “Sixteen Tons“ is a song about the life of a coal miner, first recorded in 1946 by American country singer Merle Travis and released on his box set album “Folk Songs of the Hills“ the following year. A 1955 version recorded by Tennessee Ernie Ford reached number one in the Billboard charts.