While we are on the subject of hard I just wanted to say you that, "I always was a man who likes work" I was working 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 I been down and I been out I been I been busted and I couldn't be trusted I worked my way up and I my way down I drunk and I been sober, I been baptized and got hijacked I been robbed for cash and I been on a credit
my way in jail and I worked my way outta jail Woke up a lot of mornin's, didn't where I was at The hardest work I ever was, when I was tryin' To get myself a worried woman to help ease my mind
I'm gonna tell ya how much work I had to do To get this woman I was tellin' you about, I shook With ninety seven of her and her blood relatives And I done just the same with six people Who's her friends and her neighbors
I kissed seventy three babies and put dry On thirty four of em', well as others done this same 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 than
Harnessed some of the craziest and wildest teams in that whole I rode fourteen loco to a stand still And I let forty two hound lick me all over seven times I's bit by dogs and I was chewed all to pieces My water moccasins and rattlesnakes on two river
I and carried three hundred fourteen arm loads Of stove wood, one hundred nine of coal Carried a of kerosene eighteen miles over the mountains Got lost, lost a good pair of shoes in a mud And I chopped and weeded forty eight rows of cotton
Thirteen of bad corn, I cut the sticker weeds Out of eleven back yards, all on account of I wanted to show her that I was a man and I liked to I cleaned out nine barn lofts, cranked thirty one All makes and models, pulled three cars out of mud And or five out of snow drifts
I dug five of water for some of her friends Run all of errands, played the fiddle for nine Church I Joined eleven separate denominations I joined up and signed up with seven best trade I could find, I paid my wages, a, dues six in advance
I waded forty eight miles of swamps and six big across two ranges of mountains Crossed three deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, Moonstruck, skeeter bit, poison ivy and the seven year And the blind staggers, I was up for less, lost and dead
A couple of times struck by lightning, by Congress by friends and kinfolks eell as by three cars on highways A lot of in people's hen houses, I been hit and run down Run over and walked on knocked around, I'm just sittin' Now tryin' to up what else I can do to show that women That I still ain't afraid of hard