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