Quotes from Merle Travis

The saddest songs are written when a person is happy.

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

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

My father and brothers were coal miners.

You load sixteen tons, what do you get?Another day older and deeper in debt.Saint Peter, don't you call me 'cause I can't goI owe my soul to the company store.