Sixteen Tons By Johnny Cash: Song Analysis

The Songs this week reflect directly to poverty and how poverty can affect people’s consumption spending, and their livelihood when income is very limited. One song I thought was very interesting to listen to was “Sixteen Tons” by Johnny Cash. This song relates to poverty and how a man who grows up working hard for a living can be effected by low wages with a high cost of living. One quote I thought explains how detrimental a demanding job can be with very little money outcome is, “You load sixteen tons, what do you get, another day older and deeper in debt.” Making a living during the time when this song came out was long labored hours of hard demanding work whose paycheck couldn’t keep up to the cost of living. Another key phrase that relates