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 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 and I been out I been disgusted I been 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 and I been robbed on a credit
Worked my way in jail and I my way outta jail Woke up a lot of mornin's, didn't where I was at The hardest work I ever done was, when I was 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 you about, I shook hands ninety seven of her kinfolk and her blood relatives And I done just the same with six people Who's her friends and her neighbors
I seventy three babies and put dry pants On thirty four of em', well as others done this same several times Well there are a lot of things just like this I held one hundred twenty wild horses And put saddles and bridles on more that
Harnessed some of the craziest and wildest teams in whole country' I rode fourteen loco broncos to a stand And I let forty two hound dogs me all over seven times I's bit by dogs and I was chewed all to pieces My moccasins and rattlesnakes on two river bottoms
I chopped and carried three hundred arm loads Of wood, one hundred nine buckets of coal a gallon of kerosene eighteen miles over the mountains Got lost, lost a good of shoes in a mud hole And I chopped and weeded eight rows of short cotton
Thirteen acres of bad corn, I cut the sticker Out of eleven yards, all on account of 'cause I wanted to show her I was a man and I liked to work 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 cisterns of water for some of her friends Run all kinds of errands, played the for nine meetin's I Joined eleven separate denominations I joined up and signed up seven best trade unions I could find, I paid my wages, a, dues six months in
I forty 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 year And the staggers, I was give up for less, lost and dead
A couple of struck by lightning, struck by Congress Struck by friends and kinfolks eell as by three cars on A lot of in people's hen houses, I been hit and run down Run over and walked on around, I'm just sittin' here Now tryin' to study up else I can do to show that women That I still afraid of hard work