While we are on the subject of work I just wanted to say you that, "I always was a man who likes 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 down and I been out I been disgusted I been and I couldn't be trusted I worked my way up and I my way down I been drunk and I been sober, I been baptized and got I been robbed for cash and I been robbed on a
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 just how much I had to do To get this woman I was tellin' you about, I shook With ninety of her kinfolk and her blood relatives And I just the same with eighty six people Who's just her friends and her
I kissed seventy three and put dry pants On thirty four of em', well as others done this thing several times Well there are a lot of other just like this I held one hundred twenty five wild And put and bridles on more than that
Harnessed some of the craziest and teams in that whole country' I rode fourteen loco broncos to a stand And I let forty two hound 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 carried hundred fourteen arm loads Of wood, one hundred nine buckets of coal Carried a gallon of eighteen miles over the mountains Got lost, lost a good pair of in a mud hole And I chopped and weeded forty eight 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 liked to I cleaned out nine lofts, cranked thirty one cars All and models, pulled three cars out of mud holes And four or five out of drifts
I dug five cisterns of water for some of her Run all kinds of errands, the fiddle for nine Church meetin's I eleven separate denominations I joined up and signed up seven best trade unions I find, I paid my wages, a, dues six months in advance
I waded eight miles of swamps and six big rivers across two ranges of mountains Crossed deserts, I got the fever, sun stroke, Malaria, blue Moonstruck, bit, poison ivy and the seven year itch And the staggers, I was give up for less, lost and dead
A of times 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 been hit and run Run over and walked on around, I'm just sittin' here Now to study up what else I can do to show that women That I ain't afraid of hard work