While we are on the subject of hard I wanted to say you that, "I always was a man who likes hard work" I was born and I worked my way up by hard work I ain't ever got no where, but I got by hard work
Work of the hardest kind I been and I been out I disgusted I been busted and I couldn't be trusted I my way up and I worked my way down I been and I been sober, I been baptized and got hijacked I been robbed for cash and I robbed on a credit
Worked my way in jail and I my way outta jail Woke up a lot of mornin's, know where I was at The hardest work I ever done was, when I was To get myself a woman to help ease my worried mind
I'm gonna tell ya just how much I had to do To get this woman I was tellin' you about, I hands ninety seven of her kinfolk and her blood relatives And I just the same with eighty six people Who's her friends and her neighbors
I kissed seventy three and put dry pants On thirty four of em', well as others done this same several times there are a lot of other things just like this I held one twenty five wild horses And put saddles and bridles on more than
Harnessed some of the craziest and wildest teams in that whole I rode loco broncos to a stand still And I let forty two hound dogs lick me all over seven I's bit by hungry dogs and I was chewed all to My water and rattlesnakes on two river bottoms
I and carried three hundred fourteen arm loads Of wood, one hundred nine buckets of coal Carried a gallon of kerosene eighteen miles the mountains Got lost, lost a good of shoes in a mud hole And I chopped and weeded eight rows of short cotton
Thirteen acres of bad corn, I cut the sticker Out of back yards, all on account of 'cause I wanted to show her I was a man and I liked to work I out nine barn lofts, cranked thirty one cars All makes and models, pulled three out of mud holes And four or five out of drifts
I dug five cisterns of water for of her friends Run all kinds of errands, played the for nine meetin's I Joined eleven separate denominations I joined up and signed up with seven best trade I could find, I paid my wages, a, six months in advance
I forty eight miles of swamps and six big rivers Walked across two of mountains Crossed deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, blue Moonstruck, skeeter bit, poison ivy and the seven itch And the blind staggers, I was give up for less, lost and
A couple of struck by lightning, struck by Congress Struck by friends and kinfolks eell as by cars on highways A lot of times in people's hen houses, I hit and run down Run over and walked on around, I'm just sittin' here Now tryin' to study up what else I can do to show that That I ain't afraid of hard work