While we are on the of hard work I just wanted to say you that, "I always was a man who hard work" I was born working and I my way up by hard work I ain't ever got no where, but I got there by hard
Work of the hardest kind I been down and I out I been disgusted I been 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 robbed on a credit
Worked my way in and I worked my way outta jail Woke up a lot of mornin's, didn't know I was at The work I ever done was, when I was tryin' To get myself a worried woman to help ease my worried
I'm gonna tell ya just how work I had to do To get this I was tellin' you about, I shook hands ninety seven of her kinfolk and her blood relatives And I done just the same eighty six people Who's her friends and her neighbors
I kissed seventy babies and put dry pants On thirty four of em', well as others done this thing several times Well 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 teams in that whole country' I rode fourteen loco to a stand still And I let forty two hound dogs lick me all over times I's bit by hungry dogs and I was chewed all to My water moccasins and rattlesnakes on two river
I chopped and carried three hundred fourteen arm Of stove wood, one nine buckets of coal a gallon of kerosene eighteen miles over the mountains Got lost, lost a good pair of in a mud hole And I chopped and weeded forty eight rows of short
Thirteen acres of bad corn, I cut the weeds Out of back yards, all on account of 'cause I wanted to show her that I was a man and I liked to I out nine barn lofts, cranked thirty one cars All makes and models, pulled three out of mud holes And four or 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 best trade unions I could find, I paid my wages, a, six months in advance
I waded forty miles of swamps and six big rivers Walked across two ranges of three deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, blue Moonstruck, skeeter bit, ivy and the seven year itch And the staggers, I was give up for less, lost and dead
A couple of times 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 and walked on knocked around, I'm just sittin' here Now to study up what else I can do to show that women That I still ain't afraid of work