Top 5 Merle Travis Quotes

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

Merle Travis

#2. 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.

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#3. The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

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#4. My father and brothers were coal miners.

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

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