While we are on the subject of work I just 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 there by work
Work of the hardest kind I been down and I out I been I been busted and I couldn't be trusted I worked my way up and I worked my way I been drunk and I been sober, I been baptized and got I been for cash and I been robbed on a credit
Worked my way in and I worked my way outta jail Woke up a lot of mornin's, know where I was at The hardest I ever done was, when I was tryin' To get myself a worried woman to help ease my mind
I'm gonna tell ya just how 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 same with eighty six just her friends and her neighbors
I kissed seventy three babies and put dry On thirty four of em', well as others this same thing several times Well there are a lot of other things like this I held one hundred twenty wild horses And put saddles and bridles on more that
some of the craziest and wildest teams in that whole country' I rode fourteen loco broncos to a stand And I let forty two hound dogs lick me all seven times I's bit by hungry and I was chewed all to pieces My water moccasins and rattlesnakes on two river
I chopped and carried three hundred fourteen arm Of stove wood, one hundred nine buckets of Carried a gallon of kerosene eighteen miles over the Got lost, a good pair of shoes in a mud hole And I chopped and forty eight rows of short cotton
Thirteen acres of bad corn, I cut the weeds Out of eleven back yards, all on account of I wanted to show her that I was a man and I to work I cleaned out nine barn lofts, cranked one cars All makes and models, three cars out of mud holes And or five out of snow drifts
I dug five cisterns of water for some of her Run all kinds of errands, played the fiddle for Church meetin's I Joined separate denominations I joined up and signed up with seven trade unions I find, I paid my wages, a, dues six months in advance
I waded eight miles of swamps and six big rivers Walked two ranges of mountains Crossed three deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, 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 and kinfolks eell as by three cars on highways A lot of times in people's hen houses, I hit and run down Run over and walked on knocked around, I'm just here Now tryin' to study up what else I can do to show women I still ain't afraid of hard work