Answer:
You shoot me but I don't die. You hang me but I don't die. What am I?
I'm not really more than holes tied to more holes; I'm strong as good steel, though not as stiff as a pole.
What has a bottom at the top?
What has a neck but no head?
I'm as simple as a circle worthless as a leader; but when I follow a group their strength increases tenfold. By myself I'm practically nothing.
It flows out of the soil, It burns you if it boils, And holds us in its coils, More valuable than gold, As black as it is old.